Senior People Engagement & Internal Communications Manager - 12 month FTC

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Team: People Engagament (within our People team)

Salary banding:  £65,000 - £80,000

Experience: Expert

Role Type: Full-Time - 12 month Fixed-Term Contract

Reporting to: Head of People Engagement

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Strategic, Adviser, Doer

Top 3 qualities for this role:

• Strategic Adviser: Working with the most senior leaders in the business
• Strong stakeholder management: Advising and influencing multiple stakeholders, while juggling multiple priorities, to create great people experiences 
• Crisis management: Reacting quickly to give our people and customers the right information at the right time

Closing date: Friday 14th February at 5pm

Where you’ll work:

At OVO, we understand that a one size fits all approach doesn’t work for everyone. That’s why we created the OVO Way of Flexibility.

All our roles are hub based (Bristol, Glasgow or London), providing a dedicated space for collaboration, connection and teamwork. You’ll also have the flexibility to work from home. You'll need to be comfortable coming into your local hub once a week so we're looking for individuals based from either Bristol, Glasgow or London, rather than remote.

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

You’ll be working in the People Engagement team. We’re responsible for designing and delivering a proactive, progressive engagement strategy to help us become the leading place to work for people who want to change the world.

We help people to connect to and be inspired by our strategic direction, our purpose, share in our values and become advocates of our mission to drive progress towards zero carbon living.

This role in a nutshell:

We’re looking for a strong senior internal communications leader to join our Engagement team for 12 months maternity cover for one of our Senior People Engagement & Internal Comms Managers. You’ll have the opportunity to partner our leadership team to shape business narratives, strategies and transformation communications, helping them drive forward their plans and make a difference for our people and customers.

In this role, we’ll need someone who leads change, reputational or risk communications, bringing together internal, external and business stakeholders to be completely aligned on our approach. You’ll play a huge part in our People Engagement strategy, helping our people understand the part they play in our strategy. You’ll work closely with our People Partners, Strategic Partners and Executive Assistants to help bring our business strategies to life. You’ll report directly into the Head of People Engagement as part of both the People Engagement and People Experience Leadership teams.

Your key outcomes will be:

• In Engagement Business Partnering, our mission is to support and advise our senior leaders at OVO to engage, inform and inspire their people at every turn so you’ll have to have strong experience in this space.
• Owning and leading the Communication Business Partnering model across the company, working with partners across the team to orchestrate key activity.
• Landing and embedding our strategy across the company, helping our people understand what it means for them.
• Crisis management - reacting and responding to any internal or external communications needed to help our people.
• Showing the difference your communications are making across key metrics.

You’ll be successful in this role if you…

• Have a wealth of experience in Internal Communications and People Engagement.
• Have direct experience of, and comfort working with senior leaders. Highly skilled in advising senior business leaders and building trust quickly.
• Have experience and a proven track record of dealing with significant periods of change and shaping the internal narrative around this.
• Are comfortable rolling up your sleeves to get stuck in with delivery, i.e. engagement events.
• Be a people person and a great teammate with low ego and high EQ – an energetic, positive and a welcome addition to every room.
• Be highly organised, advising and influencing multiple stakeholders, while juggling multiple priorities, to create great people experiences 
• Be an exemplary teammate, at their best when working within a collective to deliver a shared vision. Capable of building relationships fast and inspiring confidence in all around them.
• Enjoy working at pace - at OVO the world moves quickly to make sure we deliver for our people and customers as quickly as we can.

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £65,000 and £80,000, depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different, have a chat with us!

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. 

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. We'll give you 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary – 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we've put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more

For your wellbeing
With gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more

For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations

For your home 
Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers

For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..