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About the Role

This role offers the opportunity to work at the heart of high-profile communications and engagement activity, supporting the MHRA's mission and new multi-year strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of complex communications strategies across major programmes and priorities, supporting organisational priorities.
• Develop and drive communications for a high profile programme to improve how patients access and understand information.
• Lead communications for major business and digital transformation programmes.
• Developing and delivering integrated communications plans aligned to programme and organisational objectives.
• Providing expert communications advice to senior leaders, programme teams and wider internal and cross-government stakeholders.
• Plan and matrix manage the delivery of communications activity across media, digital and stakeholder channels.
• Creating high-quality content including messaging, engagement and briefing materials.

Requirements

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills both written and oral, with the ability to accurately and confidently communicate, influence and challenge staff and external contacts at all levels.
• Experience of maintaining multiple projects / programmes whilst ensuring all risks are mitigated.
• Proactively manage risks and identify solutions.
• Demonstrable track record of developing communications and engagement strategies and delivering complex projects / programmes and campaigns using a range of communications tools and techniques.
• Excellent experience in engaging and mapping out key stakeholders to communicate key messages.
• Demonstrate positive customer service by understanding the complexity and diversity of customer needs and expectations.
• Proven experience of working well under pressure and at pace within a complex business and political environment.
• Candidates will be subject to UK immigration requirements as well as Civil Service nationality rules.
• Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check as well as animal rights and pro-life activism checks.
• People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.
• Successful candidates may be subject to annual Occupational Health reviews dependent on role requirements.
• Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD).

Skills

• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
• Stakeholder engagement
• Content creation
• Messaging
• Briefing materials
• Media
• Digital channels
• Stakeholder channels

Location

• 10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf London, E14 4PU
• UK

Work Type

• Full-time
• Permanent
• Hybrid
• Onsite (minimum 8 days per month, up to 12 days)

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• A relevant qualification along with membership of CIM, CIPR or other relevant professional body desirable.

About the Company

• The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency enhance and improve the health of millions of people every day through the effective regulation of medicines and medical devices, underpinned by science and research.
• The MHRA Communications and Engagement Function is a multi-award-winning team that has a consistent track-record of achievement and providing value for money.
• Our focus is to support the Agency to deliver its business outcomes by putting patients and the public at the centre of all our work.
• The agency is made up of c.1300 staff working across two main centres and peripatetically across the UK and abroad.
• The agency consists of Corporate, Digital & Technology, Enablement, Healthcare Quality & Access, Partnerships, Safety & Surveillance and Scientific Research & Innovation.

Equal Opportunity

• In accordance with the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles our recruitment and selection processes are underpinned by the requirement of selection for appointment on the basis of merit by a fair and open competition.