Employee Content Specialist

As our Employee Communications & Engagement Content Specialist, you’ll plan and manage employee communications that connect our 63,000 Virgin people worldwide to our brand, purpose, customers and one another. You’ll turn business priorities into clear, engaging campaigns, building strong relationships and keeping projects on track. You’ll combine strategic thinking with an understanding of the Virgin brand to help shape our employee experience across life, work and spirit.

From managing stakeholders to growing our employee communities, you’ll put our people at the heart of every brief. You’ll also bring creative skills in video and design to help tell their stories, working closely with our social media and creative teams.

What you’ll be getting stuck into

Communications and campaign management

Plan, deliver and evaluate employee communications campaigns, setting clear objectives, choosing channels and managing timelines, from the first brief through to delivery and review.

Work with the Employee Communications & Engagement team to manage the content calendar and represent the team in squads delivering business priorities, owning your workstreams from brief to review.

Use campaign results and internal and external benchmarks to understand what works and improve engagement.

Stakeholder and project management

Build trusted relationships across Virgin Group and our Virgin companies, understanding stakeholders’ goals, shaping briefs and keeping them informed.

Manage competing requests, priorities and dependencies, anticipating stakeholders’ needs, coordinating feedback and approvals, and resolving issues to keep delivery on track.

Partner with social media and creative teams to align activity, uncover employee stories and give campaigns a clear employee focus, with joined-up activity across campaigns, business priorities and seasonal moments.

Community and advocacy

Manage and grow the Content Circle, our community of content creators, from mission briefs through to review and execution on our internal platform.

Manage our Employee Advocacy Programme, engaging employees to share brand content externally in exchange for rewards.

Keep both communities engaged, monitor performance and regularly source opportunities to feature our people and try relevant trends and formats.

Content and brand

Create video, audio, graphics and copy for Virgin Family, serving our 63,000 people worldwide, and Virgin Central, serving our 400 people at Virgin Group HQ.

Shoot, edit and design social-style content that supports campaign goals, acting as the team’s lead for visual, video and copy needs.

Champion the Virgin Family brand, keeping storytelling distinctive, consistent and focused on our people and their impact on customers across every asset and channel.

Maintain a shared content library so the team can find and reuse assets easily.

Test and share practical ways to use AI to improve content and efficiency, balancing new tools with human creativity, judgement and authenticity.

What you’ll bring

Experience planning, managing and measuring communications campaigns, with a clear understanding of audiences and channels.

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence, manage expectations and turn complex messages into clear stories.

Strong project management skills, balancing competing priorities and keeping people and delivery on track.

Experience of, or enthusiasm for, employee communities, advocacy programmes and employee-generated content.

Proven creative, video and graphic design skills, with a portfolio showing how your content supports communications goals and brings a brand to life.

A curious, practical approach to AI, good judgement and a proactive, collaborative way of working.

What you’ll get in return

How to apply

CVs are great… but we reckon you’re more than a PDF.

So, we’ll invite you to create a Vizzy profile - your chance to show us what makes you, well, you.

Hit apply and we’ll send your link and everything you need to get going.

We know life doesn’t stop when work starts. So we’ve built our benefits to support you - at work and beyond.

Life – support when it matters most, with healthcare from day one, family-friendly policies and help for life’s bigger moments

Work – the foundations that set you up for the future, including a competitive pension, life assurance and options like our EV scheme

Spirit – space to grow and enjoy the journey, with a personal learning budget, mentoring, volunteering time… and our famous “Screw it, let’s do it” pot

It’s all designed to help you feel your best, do your best, and enjoy the ride - with a few extra Virgin touches along the way (because we don’t really do “standard”).

The essentials

Salary: £38,500 - £45,500 + bonus — we’re big on transparency, so no smoke and mirrors here. We’ll always offer a salary that reflects your experience, with room to grow within the range.

Where you’ll work: We'll usually come together in the office 2–3 days a week, with flexibility to attend events, shoots and visits to our Virgin companies when needed.

Bring your whole self

We welcome people from all walks of life, with all kinds of experiences and ways of thinking. Different perspectives, however your mind works, help us see things differently and do things better.

If there’s anything we can do to support you through the hiring process, just let us know, we’ll always do our best to make it work for you.

We believe in using business as a force for good, creating positive change for our people, our communities and the world around us. That includes being a Fair Chance employer and championing strengths like dyslexic thinking - staying open, listening to individual circumstances and focusing on potential.

Where could this role take you? Your Virgin adventure starts here.

About Virgin

Virgin is a global family of businesses built on a simple idea: do things differently, and do them better. From travel and health to media, finance and space, we create experiences that shake up the norm and make people smile.

For over 50 years, we’ve been driven by curiosity, bold thinking and a belief that business can be a force for good.

We’re a big brand, but not a big team. That means you’ll get stuck in, take real ownership, and see the impact of what you do every day. Around here, your career isn’t a straight line — it’s your adventure to shape.