In your application, please address the criteria in Part One listed below as far as you are able to. Those candidates called forward to the latter stages will also be assessed against Part Two.
PART ONE
Experience and expertise
Essential
- Evidence of significant successful senior leadership in communications and engagement within complex, high‑stakes, high‑scrutiny environments.
- Strong understanding of government, sponsor dynamics and operating with Ministers/senior officials.
- Proven delivery of behavioural, change‑focused, and digital communications that shift actions across large systems.
- Experience working successfully across multi‑organisation programmes with pace and ambiguity.
- Proven track record of using excellent judgement and in calm, credible organisational issue handling.
- Evidence of the application of strong leadership and delivery discipline to a team
Desirable
- Knowledge of pensions/retirement, financial services regulation, or large-scale digital public services.
- Experience of successful digital service launch communications with operational risk.
- Commercial/commissioning experience.
PART TWO
Personal attributes
- Strategic, delivery‑driven, and comfortable with ambiguity.
- Highly collaborative and influential across diverse senior stakeholders.
- Able to simplify complexity without compromising accuracy.
- Resilient and credible under pressure.
- Strong system leadership instincts with ability to shape behaviour across markets.