Communications Lead

At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About The Opportunity

The Communication lead will be working for a joint venture organisation that we/Jacobs are one of the parent companies of which manages our contract delivery into the UK MOD. Providing SQEP (Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel) into the client organisations, covering Project Management, Project Controls and Operational Delivery.

Effective communication is essential to the JV success. This includes developing communications for both internal and external consumption eg

Preparation of comms to MOD.
Preparation of comms on behalf of MOD to the wider customer base.
JV staff comms eg newsletters, town halls, videos etc.
Supply chain partner comms/briefings.
Social Value initiatives and community benefit/outreach event comms.
Wider external comms.
Collateral development.
Event management.

Specifics aspects of the role include

Take on the permanent Comms Lead role from the PDP-S Transition Comms Lead following a successful handover.
Develop the overarching Communications Strategy and, where required, communication plans for specific activities and manage their effective implementation.
Communicate processes and ways of working in an accessible manner to a wide client and supplier audience.
Play a leading part in organising supply chain conferences and team away days.
Use expertise, experience, and industry best practice to help CDT leaders understand stakeholders, identify the right channels, styles and activities for specific audiences.
Maintain excellent contacts and relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
Hold colleagues to account on their communications responsibilities to drive the communications requirements.
Act as a trusted advisor to the CDT SLT to ensure effective communication is at the heart of their work.
Other areas commensurate with working within the CDT environment.

Specific characteristics we are looking for

Comfortable in a fast-paced environment.
Comfortable in a complex stakeholder environment.
Energetic and dynamic approach.