Change Partner (Communications and Engagement)

The University wants to do change better and has created a new Directorate, Strategic Change & Delivery to make that happen. Within our new Directorate is the Change Delivery Team who will build capacity across our institution to deliver significant strategic change associated with the University’s new Strategy to 2027.

We are building our Change Delivery Team from the ground up. Their role is to not only lead and help to deliver change, but to empower our leadership across the institution to build capacity to do change well and to support our stakeholders to adopt change positively.

We are recruiting for an exceptional individual to join us as a Change Partner (Communication and Engagement) within the Change Delivery Team within the Strategic Change and Delivery (SCD) Directorate to help us deliver change better. The role is available on a permanent or a secondment basis. Part-time / job share applications will also be considered.

The Change Partner (Communication & Engagement) will help embed our change management culture through supporting a diverse range of strategic change initiatives, particularly around stakeholder communication and engagement. Supporting leaders to plan, implement and embed strategic change effectively, this role will provide advice, coaching, and a toolset on communication and engagement to help leaders to deliver successfully. This role will work closely with the University Corporate Communications Team to input into internal communications strategy.

Your priorities will include:

• Develop, deliver and maintain a Directorate Communications Strategy under the direction of the Directorate Management / Leadership team.
• Be a change coach and work with change leaders to help them develop communication plans to support the changes they are leading.
• Ensure timely communications on the status of key change initiatives.
• Develop a communications and engagement toolkit to support key stages of the change process that can be tailored to specific Schools, Directorates and initiatives. Linked to this is assisting with raising awareness of best practice in change activities.
• Develop and maintain a strong working relationship with Communications, Web, Marketing and Creative Services professionals both within External Relations and externally as required.

Who we’re looking for:

• Relevant recent experience of and a clear interest in communication and engagement ideally in an HE environment with a project management focus.
• Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills with a keen attention to detail and a calm and understanding approach.
• Experience of using a wide range of communications tools covering social media, content management, generating and posting content.
• Team-oriented and skilled at working within a collaborative environment with the ability to effectively prioritize workload in continually changing circumstances.
• Highly self-motivated and directed.

For further information about this position please contact Neil Bowie, Business Change Manager (SCD) at n.r.bowie@dundee.ac.uk

The diversity of our staff and students helps to make the University of Dundee a UK university of choice for undergraduate, postgraduate and distance learning. Family friendly policies, staff networks for BME, Disabled and LGBT staff, membership of Athena SWAN, the ECU Race Equality Charter and Stonewall as well a full range of disability services, create an enjoyable and inclusive place to work.

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