We’re champions of the North West and we’re proud that it’s our electricity network that connects communities and helps keep the electricity flowing every minute of every day, from when you wake up to when you fall asleep and all the hours in between.
A key part of the UK’s journey to net zero carbon is the revolution of our electricity industry to enable clean, green economic growth. As the North West’s electricity network operator, it’s our responsibility to lead the way, help the region decarbonise and pave the way for the growth of renewable energy and a sustainable energy future for all.
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Together we have the energy to transform our communities. We are switched on. We are adaptable. We take pride.
The Corporate Social Responsibility team has an opportunity for a Stakeholder Communication Officer in the North West with frequent travel to Greater Manchester / Preston areas.
About the Opportunity
The purpose of the Stakeholder Communications Officer role is to support the stakeholder engagement team and wider communications team. A communications all rounder, the role will support in the organisation, management and promotion of responsible business and stakeholder engagement events and activities including online event management, the coordination of information for the Stakeholder Engagement and Consumer Vulnerability (SECV) initiative report and newsletter and communications development whilst also providing support to the internal and external communications teams when required.
You will support stakeholder enagagement events, source relevant information to support key business priorities and seek new opportunities and ideas to ensure we deliver best practice successful stakeholder communications across the business and work with and to support other communications colleagues on a range of projects from marketing, social media, press and internal communications.
The Stakeholder Communications Officer will be results and solutions focused, personable, motivated, an excellent communicator, keen to learn and take pride in delivering high quality stakeholder engagement, communications and internal client management.
Key responsibilities
* To support the Stakeholder Engagement team in the delivery and timely organisation of external stakeholder advisory panels, internal steering groups, engagement sessions and interfaces with internal and external stakeholders, including event planning and delivery (online and in person), invitation management, presentation cordination, minute taking and outcome and action recording.
* Collate information from internal and external stakeholders to maintain up to date stakeholder mapping and engagement database (Tractivity)which records contact information and monitors progress of stakeholder activity. To become and ‘expert user’ of the database and prepare relevant reporting metrics, identify new opportunities for improvement and liaise and train users across the organisation to ensure appropriate use.
* To support the team in the maintenance, creation, production and issue of new and existing stakeholder and responsible business communications materials including relevant newsletters, digital materials and the Stakeholder Engagement Annual Report.
* To monitor best practice across stakeholder engagement in other DNOs and other related organisations to
* and recommend improvement opportunities.
* To work across the communications team to support the maintenance, creation, production and issue of
* new and existing stakeholder and communications materials including relevant newsletters and digital
* materials.
* To maintain the stakeholder and responsible business pages of the website and Volt
* Prepare material for stakeholder activities as required
* To provide administration support for the stakeholder enggament and responsible business team including the coordination and distribution of colleague fundraising donations.
Who we are looking for
* Capability to manage large workloads to tight deadlines, often under pressure
* Excellent witten and verbal communications skills
* Good organisational skills and ability to prepare, minute and record meetings in an accurate and timely way
* Proficient in Office applications including Word, Powerpoint and Excel and ability to use them to collate, manage and report meeting records, databases etc
* Proficient in online meeting and webinar delivery including engagement techniques such as polling and chat room management etc
* Database management experience and confident in analysing data and database use
* Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills and influencing skills including ability to build effective working relationships with colleagues, external stakeholders and agencies
* Outcome focused
* Confident and proactive, with a passion for challenges and own development
Desirable
* Educated to degree level or relevant experience
* Stakeholder engagement, stakeholder mapping and relationship building experience
* Event management experience (online and in person)
* Newsletter, website, social media development experience
* Experience of working closely with design and research agencies
* Experience of working closely with other communications disciplines including press office, internal communications, incident management, marketing and research and public affairs.
What we’re offering
As a vital team member and in return for your expertise, inclusive approach and commitment, we'll provide a favourable salary and the chance to join a passionate and welcoming team. We are committed to ensuring our people are supported and are proud of our reward and benefits offer, which includes:
An annual bonus scheme
25 days annual leave increasing with length of service
Private Health Care
An employee rewards portal offering discounts on several well-known brands
A market-leading contributory pension scheme
Employee assistance programme
Opportunity for professional development through our L&D function.
We’re champions of the North West and we’re proud that it’s our electricity network that connects communities and helps keep the electricity flowing every minute of every day, from when you wake up to when you fall asleep and all the hours in between.
A key part of the UK’s journey to net zero carbon is the revolution of our electricity industry and as the regions network operator, it’s our responsibility to lead the way, help the North West to decarbonise and pave the way for the growth of renewable energy.
Together we have the energy to transform our communities. We are switched on. We are adaptable. We take pride.
Our people important to us and we’re passionate about creating a great place to work where we can all be ourselves, reach our full potential and build long lasting careers. We’re striving to increase diversity of thought and talent in our people and to recruit highly skilled workforce that’s representative of the communities we serve. For us, embracing our differences is what makes us stronger.
Should you require any additional support with your application, or any adjustments please contact our Recruitment team at careers@enwl.co.uk or on 0845 366 0092 (option 2)
Any offer made will remain conditional until pre-employment checks are complete to a level deemed satisfactory by Electricity North West. Due to the of this role, the following pre-employment checks will be required; references from previous employers, a Medical Appointment, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)BS7858 checks) and a Drug & Alcohol test.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early.
We don't accept speculative CVs from agencies. Any received we will assert ownership of the candidate and no fee will be payable