Internal Communications Manager

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This is a great opportunity for an experienced internal communications professional to join our dynamic Communications and External Affairs team.

You’ll have a track record of creating engaging and creative communications to connect with a diverse audience. You’ll be comfortable with building relationships with a wide variety of internal teams across the organisation. You’ll know what works best, and be confident to challenge assumptions when needed. You will act as an advisor to key teams such as HR and our front line Operations teams.

Who are we? Midland Heart is one of the UK’s leading Housing Associations with over 70,000 customers living in around 33,000 homes across 55 local authorities.  Midland Heart’s mission is to be the leading Housing Association in the Midlands helping people to live independently and building high quality new homes.

We’re looking for someone who can shape key messages and deliver communications on time across a variety of channels to almost 2000 members of staff. You will be key to communicating our corporate strategy, ensuring that our employees understand why it is important to their role and bring them on-board with our mission and values. That could be done through an awards event, briefing, blog, film, news article or infographic on our intranet.

This rewarding role offers great scope and the opportunity to work closely with leaders across the organisation. You’ll be well organised, with a track record of creative internal communications, translating complex business messages into engaging campaigns that inspire our colleagues and drive behaviour change.

What can we offer you? We are a flexible employer passionate about providing you with a great place to work.  As well as a competitive salary and generous leave entitlement, you’ll benefit from our CIPD award winning reward initiative, including a range of voluntary and salary sacrifice benefits, generous pension arrangements, as well as the opportunity to develop your skills as a communications professional.

To apply, please register on our candidate portal and submit a comprehensive CV setting out your career history, with responsibilities and achievements, supported by a cover letter of no more than 2 pages which clearly explains how you think you meet the requirements of this role.

Closing date for receipt of completed applications is 9am on Thursday 21st December 2017.

Assessments will take place on 10th and 11th January 2018..

Recruitment Agencies please note that we do not accept speculative CVs and should one be submitted, we will assume the candidate is our own.