About Southwark:
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
The Role:
Southwark Children’s Services provides leadership, support, challenge and guidance to a range of services and partners working to deliver improved outcomes for children, young people, and their families in Southwark. The division wants to strengthen its presence and develop a stakeholder engagement approach across the borough to ensure that we share key messages effectively, build a collaborative approach to sharing resources and finding solutions to borough-wide challenges, and celebrate success.
The Stakeholder Relationship Officer will ensure that our key stakeholders, both internal and external, are fully informed and participating in the delivery of our strategic and partnership goals. Information coming from the division will be recognisable and trusted, developing and enhancing the shared work of our key partners and services, and developing our reputation as a trusted partner.
This is an exciting, new role in a passionate, committed and busy team. It will give you the opportunity to bring your expertise and knowledge to shape how we communicate with our key stakeholders, including children and young people, parents and carers, schools and other children’s services settings, as well as with our workforce.
About You:
You will have experience in a stakeholder management role: planning, writing, editing and producing communications through a variety of print and online media. This will include experience of designing and managing content and writing impactful media content for a variety of audiences. You will be confident producing and using strategy relating to statistical and analytical reports.
You will be politically aware, and may have prior experience working in local government, or similarly complex organisation.
You will need to be confident using a range of IT products and programmes and have experience of using and producing strategy relating to statistical and analytical reports.
Additional details
This post requires a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) DBS check at Enhanced level.
Benefits and more information:
In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: 30/09/2024
Interview date: 07/10/2024
Guaranteed Interview Scheme:
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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