Do you have previous experience of
working in an external affairs or partnerships team, events and
visits team, press office, private office, communications team or
similar ? If so, we’ve got the perfect job for you !
About
the Team
The Ministerial and
Communications Group sits at the heart of the Treasury. If you are
interested in the inner workings of the Government, meeting
Ministers, Senior Officials and liaising with the Press then this
could be the place for you! We are a friendly and inclusive Group
working on some of the most exciting issues of the day, bringing
together work from across the rest of the department and engaging
closely with partners across Whitehall and
beyond.
We provide
support to Ministers, through Ministerial offices. We act as
Treasury's external face, through the Press Office and
Communications team. We are responsible for managing the
department, through our support for the Permanent Secretary, the
Second Permanent Secretaries, the Treasury Board, and the Executive
Management Board (EMB), and our ownership of Treasury governance
structures. The Group is led by the Permanent Secretary.
The Communications
Team is responsible for all communications conducted by HM Treasury
and its Ministers. We work closely with Ministers, special advisers
and policy teams to help inform, promote and defend HMT policies
and the government's economic plan through traditional and new
media channels. As a team we are hard-working, supportive and fun.
We work highly collaboratively across the different aspects of
communications (press, digital, external affairs, internal,
strategy & events). The successful applicant will need to be
willing to work flexibly across priorities.
About
the Job
In this role, you
will :strong working relationships with Treasury policy and
communications colleagues, as well as with other government
departments, to ensure a joined-up approach on external engagement
plans for key
announcements.
develop strategic external engagement plans ahead of each policy
announcement or fiscal event. This will involve engaging with
external partners in advance of policy announcements and working
with them to line up support for
announcements.
use advocates to build news hooks and to bring to life how
government support is benefitting businesses and
partners.
strong two-way working relationships with key external partners to
ensure they are appropriately informed around announcements and
fiscal events, that Treasury Communications is aware of upcoming
business announcements, and to provide insight into business
sentiment.
on implementing and maintaining a master contact database of
business partners, tracking engagement, monitoring sentiment and
identifying which Treasury schemes they are taking
up.
outstanding judgement and acute political awareness, working with
policy and press colleagues to identify and handle presentational
risks and opportunities associated with external
engagement.
About
You
The post-holder will be
organised, react quickly and calmly to changing circumstances, have
strong communication skills and be able to think creatively to
reach
solutions.
Some
of the Benefits our people
love!
days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public
holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy
arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate
flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2
days off each
month
working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed
hours)
parental and adoption leave
packages
to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer
contributions of
28.97%
to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket
advances
range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g.
analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity
For more
information about the role and how to apply, please follow the
apply
link.
If
you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection
process, please tell us about this in your online application
form
Senior Manager • Darlington, United Kingdom