Profession Engagement and Events Manager [job share]

Job summary

We are seeking a Profession Engagement and Events Manager to join our rapidly growing team at a pivotal moment in our journey. Having recently launched as a brand-new government profession, we are now focused on scaling our reach, maximising member value and actively driving and establishing our reputation as a centre of excellence and the Grants Profession as a great place to work and a meaningful career. This role is critical to accelerating our growth, building a high-impact profile, and driving widespread awareness and collaboration across central government and the broader public sector.

Our growth and engagement strategy centres on:

Reach and Uptake - targeted communications to maximise awareness, active adoption and wider engagement with the Government Grants Strategy, Profession, standards, services and guidance the Grants Function delivers.

Community and Culture - deliver high-quality calendar of events and content that establishes the Grants Profession as a great place to work and an environment to build and enrich a career.

Impact and Profile - strategic communications, widely showcasing and storytelling the measurable value, efficiency and real-world impact that robust grant management brings to the public and economy.

As Engagement Manager, you will take full ownership of daily community management, communications and event delivery for a fast-growing professional network. Working alongside our Comms Lead, you will bridge the gap between strategic messaging and real-world delivery. You will be instrumental in driving audience engagement, running our dedicated engagement groups and leading the end-to-end logistics for high-quality events.

Job description

You will take a lead role in creating, managing and prioritising engagement plans and content for our Grants Profession networks and channels as well as building partnerships across government, with the wider public sector and significant stakeholders. You will also be expected to support the design and delivery of stakeholder events and forums.

Key requirements of the post are as follows.

• Work closely with the Communications Lead to deliver a communications strategy to grow the Grants Profession and boost uptake of the learning and development offer.
• Deliver high-quality calendar of events and content that establishes the Grants Profession as a great place to work and an environment to build and enrich a career.
• Create content and manage a series of publications, intranet items and social media channels to help build the grant-making community and promote training and career development opportunities.
• Work with contracted partners to design, implement and evaluate audience specific communications campaigns as required.

Please note this role does require some travel related to the delivery of face-to-face events and forums.

Person specification

Essential

• Strategic influence: experience in designing and delivering effective communication and engagement plans from objective through to evaluation that influence organisational culture and behaviour.
• Event management: experience of designing and delivering engagement activities and events that deliver organisational outcomes.
• Content creation: excellent drafting and editorial skills to turn complex technical or policy information into clear engaging narratives to showcase and storytell the measurable value, efficiency and real-world impact that robust grant management brings to the public and economy.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to adjust working and communication styles to meet the requirements of multiple audiences and partners.
• Collaboration: able to work across team boundaries to ensure communications and engagements are joined up and focused on organisational goals.
• Project Leadership: proven track record of strong planning and organisational skills to effectively manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work at pace.
• Senior stakeholder management: able to build trust and provide robust advice to senior leaders in fast-paced environments.
• Analytical thinking: experience of using insights, evidence and evaluation to monitor the effectiveness of communications and engagement activities to deliver continuous improvement.
• Demonstrate practical use of AI and digital tools to improve the quality of communications.

Desirable experience

• Developing and delivering membership campaigns.
• Leading and delivering in-person and online events.
• Using graphic design packages, eMarketing platforms and analytics/evaluation reporting on digital campaigns
• Experience of working within and/or understanding of grant management.

Additional information:

Cabinet Office policy is that a minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace. For some roles, due to their nature and the business need, this may be up to 100%. Requirements to attend other locations for official business will also count towards this level of attendance.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions
• Seeing the Big Picture

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Communicating and Influencing

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £43,760, Cabinet Office contributes £12,677 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• An environment with flexible working options.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
• A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and employer contributions of 28.97%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

Application process

At the application stage, candidates will be assessed on CV, Statement of suitability and the following behaviour:

• Communicating and Influencing

Please provide a personal statement of no more than 500 words. For your statement of suitability, please demonstrate how you meet the essential and desirable criteria as listed in the 'Person specification' section of the job advert.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Should a large number of applications be received, an initial sift may be undertaken using the Behaviour: Communicating and Influencing. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview.

Selection process

At interview stage there will be some strength based questions and candidates will also be assessed on work based experience using the below behaviours:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions
• Seeing the Big Picture

Candidates are also requested to provide a presentation for 10 minutes at the start of the interview to respond to this title:

“What are the key components for a stakeholder and communications plan to establish and grow the new Government Grants Profession? What are the barriers to delivery and how would you overcome them?”

Expected timeline (subject to change)
Expected sift date – week commencing 24th August
Expected interview date/s – week commencing 7th September
Interview location - Virtual

Further Information

A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made.

Any move to Cabinet Office from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare; for further information visit the Childcare Choices website.

Reasonable Adjustment

If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

Contact Government Recruitment Service via Cabinetoffice.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the ‘Assistance required’ section in the ‘Additional requirements’ page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'contact point for applicants' section.

If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.

In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service/Disclosure Scotland on your behalf.

However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.

For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email Info@disclosurescotland.co.uk

Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

Feedback

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Alison Long
• Email : alison.long1@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : cabinetofficerecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and wish to make a complaint, then in the first instance you should contact Government Recruitment Service by email at : cabinetofficerecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission at info@csc.gov.uk. For further information on the Recruitment Principles and bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission, please visit their website at: https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/.

Attachments

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