UK Internal Communications & Engagement Advisor

We are WaterAid

Our vision is a world where everyone everywhere has access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene.

Our mission Transform lives through sustainable and safe water,

sanitation and hygiene.

 

Our values define our culture and unite us across the

many countries in which we work. They are at the very heart of WaterAid – who we are, what we do and how we do it.

Respect. We treat everyone with dignity and respect and champion the rights and contribution of all to achieve a fairer world.

Accountability. We are accountable to those whose lives we hope to see transformed, to those we work with and to those who support us.

Courage. We are bold and inspiring in our actions and words, and uncompromising in our determination to pursue our mission.

Collaboration. We work with others to maximise our impact, respecting diversity and difference in the pursuit of common goals.

Innovation. We are creative and agile, always learning, and prepared to take risks to accelerate change.

Integrity. We act with honesty and conviction and our actions are consistent with openness, equality and human rights.

 

About the role

 

Job purpose

Create, co-ordinate, deliver high quality UK communications and engagement that support our priority of shaping the UK workplace with a high focus on diversity, equity and engagement (DEE) to celebrate our rich cultural mix. Supporting UK based teams and key resource groups as the primary internal communications and engagement advisor.

 

We support and enjoy a flexible working environment. A minimum of 40% of working time is spent in the London office. This equates to 2 days for a full-time employee, one of those days must be a Monday when the entire UK People Team are office based.

Grade 4.

£43,668 to £45,851 (minimum to the median range) with excellent benefits.

Permanent and full time.

Head of People, UK.

No staff management responsibility.

No direct budget management but will be required to effectively leverage budgets for activities that the role is accountable to deliver.

There may be some limited travel within the UK.

Internal Communication:

• The main point of contact for all enquiries for UK internal communications, providing expert advice and support.
• Responsible for innovative content creation and delivery of all UK specific communication in line with WaterAid’s brand and our employee value proposition, eg: emails, news articles, videos, employer brand campaigns.
• Develop and execute the UK People Team annual, rolling communications plan in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Provide advisory support to colleagues in the UK People Team on communication approaches so it reflects our employee value proposition in tone and content.
• Responsible for designing the communication of our work on diversity, equity, and empowerment (DEE) in an inspiring, inclusive and impactful way that captures the audience as well as the key message of the work.
• Owner of “Shaping the UK Workplace” hub on our Intranet, The Spring. In ownership, this is content, creative design and coordinating with key stakeholders.
• Build professional and effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including key resource groups in the UK to be a trusted advisor.
• Support in the organisation and delivery of all UK staff specific webinars and in person events.

 

Employee Engagement:

• Develop and design a pipeline of social media articles that can be used for branding careers in the UK, in addition to supporting at UK focused branding events.
• Develop the UK wellbeing calendar, promote and coordinate delivery of activities in collaboration with UK based resource groups.
• Produce creative and innovative material on key cultural events celebrating our rich diversity in the UK office.
• Lead on the design, project management and delivery of UK events during WaterAiders Week. For example, UK WaterAiders Fair.
• Lead on activating the global employee engagement initiatives in the UK. For example, the Employee Engagement Survey.

 

Knowledge Management:

• Design the structure, ownership, and expert advisor for the UK People Team’s knowledge management site.

Functional skills

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills in English.
• Experience of having worked and successfully impacted outcomes in an internal communication and engagement role.
• Demonstratable branding and design capability. • Understands employee experience concepts.
• Project management experience.
• Designing engaging and impactful surveys.
• Experience of using and designing in SharePoint.
• Has used MS office suite, with a strong skill in PowerPoint.

 

A demonstrated ability to a working style that reflects WaterAid’s values of Respect, Accountability, Courage, Collaboration, Integrity, and Innovation.

 

Desirable skills

 

• Experience of working in a communication, engagement role within a People & Organisational

Development team.

• Experience of working with staff resource groups.

 

Our People Promise

We will work with passion and focus to ensure safe and sustainable water, toilets and hygiene are available to everyone, everywhere. WaterAid is a place of purpose – where people have a real commitment and shared responsibility for the impact we have. We are a global community with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, motivated by inspiring, stimulating work. We are determined to put the wellbeing of our people first, to be a place where people feel safe and able to contribute their voice and truly live our values.

 

Equal opportunities

We are an equal opportunity, disability-confident employer and are dedicated to achieving the highest standards of diversity, equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, beliefs, customs, traditions and ways of life. This includes, but is not limited to, race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, national or social origin, health status, and economic or social situation.

 

Safeguarding

We are also committed to protecting everyone we come into contact with. We have a zero tolerance approach to abuse of power, privilege or trust across our global work, and any form of inappropriate behaviour, discrimination, abuse, bullying, harassment, or exploitation. Safeguarding the people and communities we work with, our staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf is our top priority, and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously. All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks (which can include counterterrorism, safeguarding and criminal records checks).

 

Wherever you work in WaterAid and whatever job you do, you’ll be joining a global network helping people change their own lives with clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene.