Join us as an Employee Communications Chief Operating Office Team to support senior COO and Functions stakeholders at Barclays in achieving its group-wide ambitions. We are looking for a talented and experienced individual to join our Group Employee Communications team. Working as part of a highly skilled, respected, and creative global team of Employee Communications professionals, you will be responsible for delivering impactful, strategic, and insight-driven communications. Do you have experience building strong relationships with senior stakeholders as their trusted communications consultant? Are you passionate about translating business strategies into meaningful and compelling campaigns that resonate with employees? Are you familiar with content creation across a range of - increasingly digital - channels? Are you keen to use data to delve deeper into what works for your audience? Do you enjoy working creatively and collaboratively to get things done? Can you inspire and lead through others to achieve your goals? Then we want to hear from you. The ideal candidate must have the following Basic Qualifications: Significant experience in Employee Comms, in a Business Partner role Experience of influencing and managing relationships at a senior level - we need candidates with brilliant stakeholder and relationship management skills Ability to translate business objectives into compelling and engaging communications plans Ability to translate data and insight to inform communications strategies and plans Strong track record of creating and curating content across a range of channels Business Acumen Effective member of a global team Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications: Strong commercial understanding and awareness of external market/industry/regulatory issues Excellent planning, prioritisation, and organisation skills Ability to work at pace, with tight deadlines and a strong focus on execution Strong written and verbal communication skills Familiarity with M365 apps and digital channels You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills. Purpose of the role To build strong and effective partnerships with the senior leadership of the organisation, advising on how to engage and influence employees to achieve the business's goals, through an insight-based employee communications strategy, backed up with outstanding execution capability. Accountabilities Leadership communication, using detailed, systematic insight research to help senior leaders understand employee sentiment, and empower them to communicate empathetically with their people. Business strategy alignment, building belief in the strategy of the organisation, and the progress being made, with a strong focus on the impact employees have on the client experience. Culture and employee proposition communication, designing and implementing communication interventions that influence individual behaviour to create a culture built on the Barclays Mindset; demonstrate why the organisation is a great place to work. Change delivery, creating communication interventions that build employee commitment and capability through organisational change. Crisis and issues management, working closely with the senior team as part of the management response, focused on the role of employees in engaging clients. Capability building, leading and developing a high-performing team, building individual skills and team capabilities. Vice President Expectations To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.