Temporary Senior communications executive Jobs in London, uk

Job Description

• Support management of the Communications and Engagement grid to support the planning and implementation of communications activity and ensure directorate oversight of wider organisational activity
• Manage the communications, engagement and events form with responsibility for triaging and ensuring timely responses to requests
• Provide operational support to the Participant Panel at Genomics England including organising their quarterly meetings, writing minutes, booking travel and accommodation, reporting spend against the allocated budget and supporting their attendance at external events
• Support delivery of internal communications including bi-weekly Exchange newsletter and development of engaging and accessible content on the intranet
• Collate content, create and distribute email communications using software such as MailChimp
• Schedule and publish content on our external website as required
• Offer logistics support for our internal events, and external online and in-person events such as our annual research conference
• Support management of shared inboxes ensuring timely responses to enquiries
• Support production of quarterly reports to monitor and evaluate communications and engagement activity
• Provide administrative support to colleagues across the Directorate as required
• Act as a company brand champion, ensuring that communications reflect our brand and messaging
• Know and understand the meaning behind our virtues and leadership behaviours and embody them in all aspects of your role

Qualifications

Whilst we recognise relevant qualifications we are mostly interested in your experience in line with the job description.

Additional Information

Salary from : £34,000

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including :

Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace

Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background.

Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.

Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary to  our virtues , undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties.  Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity.

We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process, we encourage you to discuss this with us.

Blended working model

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility that hybrid working can bring. We expect most people to come into the office a minimum of 2 times each month. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that people will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require full time on site attendance e.g., lab teams, reception team.

Our teams and squads have, and will continue to reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are : Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

Onboarding background checks

As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.  We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.