Internal Communications Executive

Location/s: London, UK
Recruiter contact: Steven Johnston

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. 

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual. 

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

Overview of the role
The Internal Communications Executive for the European region’s internal communications (IC) content workstream contributes to the region’s content strategy.

This involves being a key IC content consultant who crafts and creates content that increases employee engagement with regional messaging and storytelling, aligning fully with how we engage colleagues internally and clients externally.

Working within the IC team for Europe, you will report into the Senior Internal Communications Manager for the content workstream, engage across functions and produce content for our Buildings and Transport business units.

This is an early career professional role, suitable for those who are degree qualified or who have relevant work experience. The postholder is expected to demonstrate and role model Our Code and PRIDE values, take ownership of tasks through some self-management and purposefully work with and contribute to the regional marketing and creative teams and wider IC function within the region and at global level.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Consultancy
  • Contribute to implementing the IC content strategy
  • Engage with regional IC function to ensure content strategy, delivery and timing is understood and delivered across the region
  • As necessary, advise on how teams from our Buildings and Transport units can create engaging content to generate maximum measurable impact
  • Identify internal communication opportunities and propose creative ideas and content to engage different audiences
• Content delivery
  • Organise and run quarterly Buildings and Transport units’ editorial board sessions to create healthy and realistic content pipelines for each unit
  • Plan and write effective and engaging content for key Buildings, Transport and EUNA regional IC activities to generate maximum measurable impact across different content mediums (e.g. written, verbal, video)
  • Prepare content that is aligned with our content strategy, messaging and tone of voice
  • Write, edit and proofread news stories and educate stakeholders how to improve their requests for future stories
  • Help Senior IC Manager in coordinating regional intranet news, prioritise and assign content tasks
  • Network and research to find out what people need and expect from our content strategy
  • Review content metrics to demonstrate content success and where to improve
  • Engage with the global IC team to align regional content with global messaging and storytelling
  • Engage with regional marketing content team to coordinate content that is applicable externally and internally
• Functional excellence
  • Promotes best practice and facilitate learning from workstream activities with regional IC teams
  • Take ownership of personal professional development and shares learning Participates and engages with team, peers and networks
  • Seeks guidance where needed and delivers outputs on time
  • Demonstrates good cybersecurity, wellbeing and safety practices

Candidate specification
Essential:

• Experience of working in a content role
• Strong command of written English language
• Communicates effectively and works as a team with key stakeholders, peers and other professionals
• Highly organised and works efficiently to expected deadlines with multiple stakeholders across a variety of projects/tasks, including ‘business as usual’ content creation
• Customer and end user focused
• Able to learn and apply new technologies, particularly in relation to the use of AI
• Demonstrates and role models Our Code and PRIDE values

Desirable:

• University degree, college diploma or similar experience in English, communications or marketing
• Produces content that translates complex or technical information into simple, compelling content across multiple channels and audiences
• Excellent speaking, writing and presentation skills, storytelling, and people-centred communications
• Self-starting and resourceful with the confidence and ability to undertake tasks and see them through to completion with minimal guidance
• Develop content for video
• Fully conversant with Microsoft Office 365

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working  

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion 

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

 Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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