Internal Communications Officer

Location

Bristol

Salary and benefits

Competitive and excellent benefits

Job advert description

We are currently recruiting for an internal communications officer to join us on a full-time, permanent basis in our Bristol office. This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and dedicated individual with a passion for employee engagement to join our growing communications team.

The role will be responsible for delivering clear, consistent and efficient internal communication to ensure that organisational initiatives and projects are successfully communicated between managers and employees and between departments. The post holder will work across the business globally to gather contributions from internal sources and craft and curate regular and relevant communications to employees.

Key job accountabilities include

• Ensure organisational strategy, initiative and projects are successfully communicated to employees.
• Streamline internal communications, ensuring right level of flow and appropriate channels are maintained.
• Drive a ‘drumbeat’ of regular communications, ensuring company-wide and location-specific messaging is clear, consistent and delivered through the most relevant and impactful channels.

About you

Successful applicants should demonstrate the following:

• Previous experience of internal communications in a digital environment for a large organisation.
• Experience of internal communications channels, preferably Office 365 and yammer.
• Excellent copywriting and editing skills. 
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and networking skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Strong organisational and time management skills, ability to manage multiple priorities.

About the benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer employees a comprehensive benefits package including an excellent pension scheme, discretionary annual bonus scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance and generous annual leave, and a range of flexible benefits including cycle to work and gym membership. We also have a subsidised café which is a popular, sociable spot for meetings and lunch.

Our modern and contemporary offices are based in the thriving city centre of Bristol, a stone’s throw away from Temple Meads train station, and within walking distance of Cabot Circus shopping centre, and numerous cafés and restaurants. Named on more than one occasion as the best city in the UK to live in, Bristol is a cosmopolitan and creative city boasting a historic harbour, internationally renowned cultural institutions and home to world-class festivals and events.

To apply

To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter through our careers site highlighting your previous experience and how it applies to the role, and why you are interested in this opportunity and IOP Publishing.

About us

IOP Publishing is an international scientific publisher, through which leading-edge research is distributed worldwide. Our rapidly expanding journals programme is published alongside other sources of scientific information in the form of eBooks, magazines and conference proceedings. Other publications include easily accessible community and regional websites. We are a world leader in the development of electronic publishing for the scientific community and have offices in Europe, Asia and the US.  Working in the interests of science and scientists, we aim to maximise the impact of the research we publish.

IOP Publishing is central to the Institute of Physics, a not-for-profit society. Any financial surplus earned by IOP Publishing goes to supporting science through the activities of the Institute. With a continuing focus on growth we recognise that every single person has a real part to play if we’re to achieve our aim of becoming the world’s leading publisher in our field.