Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services
Corporate Communications Manager
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Location: Chippenham
Hours: 37.5, Monday-Friday 08:00-16:30
Located and based in Wiltshire, the post holder will manage the Corporate Communications Department in MOD Lyneham. This includes delivering internal Communications and external Public Relations services in accordance with current MoD regulations and contractual requirements of the Hestia South West Contract.
Main Responsibilities
- Manage all PR and media activity, acting as the main point of contact for enquiries, media requests, press releases, official visits and publicity opportunities.
- Deliver corporate communications, ensuring all communications, branding and promotional materials comply with corporate communications policies and standards.
- Build strong stakeholder relationships, liaising with Defence Media, MOD press officers, regional media contacts, internal departments and other relevant organisations.
- Support senior management and the Establishment, preparing media briefs, supporting interviews and Command meetings, coordinating communications activity and keeping management informed of PR matters.
- Manage the team and maintain compliance, overseeing staff health, safety and welfare while ensuring activities meet Mitie Health, Safety and Environmental requirements.
What We Are Looking For
- Management & Leadership: Proven management experience with strong organisational, motivational and decision-making skills, demonstrating professionalism, integrity and the ability to lead change.
- Media, PR & Digital Communications: Successful experience in media relations and PR, with strong media knowledge, relationship-building skills and effective use of online and social media.
- Communication & Stakeholder Management: Excellent written and verbal communication, influencing and networking skills, with the ability to engage confidently at all levels and explain complex information clearly.
- Organisation & Customer Focus: Proactive, adaptable and self-motivated, with proven customer-facing experience and the ability to manage changing priorities, short-notice requirements and demanding deadlines calmly.
- IT, Health & Safety & Qualifications: Excellent Microsoft Office skills, management-level knowledge of Health & Safety legislation, preferably IOSH Managing Safely, and ideally NVQ Level 5 or equivalent.
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Additional Information
- MOD security clearance and DBS Standard required.
- To meet national security vetting requirements, you will normally need to have been resident in the UK for at least 3 years to gain a Counter Terrorist Check, 5 years for Security Clearance and 10 years for Developed Vetting prior to the date of application. All Developed Vetted posts are required to be UK Nationals. Proof of right to work in UK essential.
About The Company
- Required to wear approved company work wear.
Mitie is a business of 77,500 colleagues making us the UK's leading facilities management company. Mitie's vision is to work together to deliver the exceptional, every day. It is a commitment we make to our customers day in, day out. We are built on integrity and trust. We always go the extra mile to get the job done.
We champion diversity and inclusion and have six employee networks offering supportive spaces for military veterans, parents and carers, LGBTQ+, women, disabled colleagues, and for all races and ethnicities. Mitie has a comprehensive and practical approach to achieving net zero carbon. A wide variety of benefits are available to employees, including additional leave purchase, Give as You Earn, Salary Finance, Save as You Earn, Share Incentive Plan, Cycle to Work, purchase of private medical cover, life cover, technical equipment, childcare vouchers, and more. A reward and recognition scheme are in place and a wide variety of high street discounts are available to claim. There are career pathway opportunities, such as workplace apprenticeships and leadership development programmes, and an offer is made to ‘give back' to the community during paid time. Please ask more about these benefits at interview.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
- We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home.
- We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
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When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Cory Ambler at cory.ambler@mitie.com.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
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