92135 - Regional Prison Resourcing Internal Communications Officer

The Recruitment and Retention Communications (RRC) team sits within the Ministry of Justice's award-winning communications team. We pride ourselves on having an excellent and supportive team culture, a focus on innovation and making a difference to people's lives., You will work to ensure that your work aligns with the MOJ annual communications strategy and to Departmental and cross-government priorities. Your work should be based on relevant audience insight, set outcomes, have an implementation plan, and include evaluation metrics to measure the impact of communications.

• Effective collaboration.
You are expected to build effective working and collaborative relationships internally and externally. You will be able to use these relationships to unblock issues, manage risks, and deliver more effective communications. These regional roles will involve extensive travel to visit prisons in the North, South West and West Midlands region, expected to be on average at least two days per week. A driving license and own car is essential. Mileage will be paid as expenses. The other days of the week when not in prisons will be home working based.

We are looking for two passionate, internal communications professionals to work in the Prison Resourcing Communications team. You will help us to deliver an impactful, local communications strategy, to achieve our ambition of improving our local prison communications channels, drive up staff engagement, improve staff retention and strengthen the relationships between people working across HMPPS (His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service). We have one role based in the Southwest and West Midlands area of England and another in the North (to cover prisons in the Northeast and Northwest). Your own car and a full driving license are essential to enable you to travel to prisons for face-to-face meetings with prison staff and Governors. The successful candidate will join us at an exciting time and will help us to revolutionise the way we communicate to the staff working in our prison community. For too long prisons have been overlooked, there is not enough recognition of the extraordinary jobs our staff do - incredible stories of compassion, progress against extraordinary odds, and rehabilitation. The role has a strong focus on internal communications and staff engagement but also encompasses campaigns. With your line manager you will be helping to develop an impactful insight based local prisons communications strategy that will improve our local channels and drive-up staff engagement. Working as part of a team of central and regional communications experts, the successful applicant will be a natural relationship builder and will be able to work collaboratively and with impact across a range of teams including those inside prisons, senior leaders in HMPPS and other communication functions. In addition, you will be a creative thinker, able to come up with new innovative solutions to old problems and remain positive in the face of adversity. You will ensure all of your work is executed to brilliant standards, within an existing culture of continuous improvement and innovation, and evaluating the impact of your work on an ongoing basis. You will also be expected to develop strong networks. Your interpersonal skills will be first rate and you will be at ease engaging with senior internal and external stakeholders for example policy teams and prison governors. Person specification: The role has several key requirements including:
• Expertise in delivering creative internal communications and excellent writing skills
You will think creatively to evolve and develop our local communications channels, celebrating the great work the prison service does to keep the public safe and rehabilitate offenders. You will help deliver an insight-based and impactful local prison internal communications strategy. You will also be able to write clear and compelling content for audiences.
• Solution-focussed, self-motivated and innovative
You will be experienced in developing and delivering effective, relevant and timely communications that help support staff engagement. You are solution-focussed, proactive and resilient. You are able to come up with new, innovative and creative ideas to extend the reach of our corporate communications and improve communications locally.
• Using insight and evaluating the impact of your work.