Employee Engagement Campaigns Officer
Employee Engagement Campaigns Officer
Leek Wootton
Fixed Term Contract till March 2027
Full Time
Salary (£40,383.00 - £42,612.00)
The closing date for this post is 12 midday Feb 23rd 2026.
Those currently eligible on the redeployment register will be given prior consideration.
Are you a creative campaigns expert with a passion for using internal communications to create workforce advocates?
If so, we'd love you to join our newly-reformed communications and engagement team to play a critical role in upping our game in employee engagement.
This is a maternity cover post to March 2027 to develop and deliver impactful and insight-led creative campaigns to positively impact employee behaviour and the management of change, bringing force values to life.
You'll be a self-starter, able to generate ideas and deliver at pace, working across strategic campaigns and events, digital and traditional channels to connect with our busy and varied internal audiences to build internal trust and confidence, as well as playing a part in delivering the force’s operational communications responsibilities through communications advice, guidance and activity.
The main purpose of the role is to develop and deliver impactful and insight-led creative campaigns and associated activity to drive employee engagement and behaviour, in particular management of change and development of our internal culture to reflect our recently launched mission and values.
To create internal brand awareness, building internal trust and confidence in our strategy, mission, values and people plan. As part of the team, deliver the force’s 24/7 operational communications responsibilities through communications advice, guidance and activity.
This role supports Warwickshire Police’s strategic objectives to serve and protect our communities, delivering policing excellence as standard.
Main Responsibilities:
Develop and deliver employee campaigning activities, strategies and programmes of work that support the force ambition to deliver policing excellence as standard – using a range of channels and tactics, creating insight-led plans with measurable outcomes and clear evaluation.
Create impactful and creative campaign content that supports employee engagement in a variety of formats for use across a range of channels, to reach and influence different internal audiences.
Collaborate with professional service teams including Human Resources, Learning and Development (L&D), Business Change, Assurance and Service Improvement (A&SI) and Professional Standards (PSD) or other Subject Matter Experts to develop and deliver effective strategic communications to support employee engagement, development, awareness, recognition, recruitment and retention programmes.
Monitor and report on employee engagement, identifying and implementing opportunities to improve employee engagement and morale, while reinforcing key internal messaging that seeks to drive behavioural and/or cultural change.
Proactively develop positive and effective relationships with key internal stakeholders including senior leaders and business area leads.
Contribute to the creation, management and publishing of original and high-quality storytelling content across various platforms using digital design, photography, video and copywriting.
Stay abreast of developing and emerging campaign and employee engagement techniques, trends, tactics and evaluation methods.
Gather insight to measure the qualitative and quantitative success of internal campaigns and engagement activity while using insight to inform future and adapt current internal communications initiatives and campaigns.
Contribute to the team duty and on-call requirements to provide 24/7 availability of tactical communications advice and action in response to operational requirements. In this context, stay up-to-date on media law/sector developments, business continuity and major incident planning as well as the wide range of force priorities and current affairs to inform understanding and approach.
Use every opportunity commensurate with other duties to promote the work, vision and values of Warwickshire Police, ensuring a high level of customer service in all dealings with internal stakeholders, while ensuring continuous development of skills, knowledge and creativity.
To undertake other duties commensurate with the nature, level of responsibility and grading of this post, as required.
Knowledge:
A degree in a specialist relevant subject such as communications, marketing, journalism or media, or equivalent experience.
Knowledge of current and emerging employee engagement and marketing theory, channels and tools including AI, and tactics that seek to drive and embed change.
Able to produce content in a wide range of formats including digital design, photography, video and copywriting, for distribution and consumption across multimedia platforms.
Experience:
Designing, delivering and evaluating multi-channel internal communications campaigns for a range of internal audiences including those that are hard-to-reach, to build brand awareness while influencing cultural and behavioural change.
Seeking out and producing content in a wide range of formats including digital design, photography, video and copywriting, for distribution and consumption across internal digital platforms.
Delivering internal communications that are aligned to organisational aims and objectives within a large and complex organisation.
Experience of juggling multiple priorities in communications with varying timeframes, stakeholders, audiences and channels.
Leading communication projects and initiatives from concept to implementation and evaluation.
Developing and delivering change communications initiatives.
Stakeholder engagement in a complex organisation.
Developing and delivering tactical communication plans to effectively manage complex, high profile, fast moving and politically sensitive incidents or operations.
Desirable:
Knowledge of media law, ethics and codes of conduct.
Experience of designing and delivering employee engagement communications.
Experience of advising and influencing senior internal and external stakeholders in sensitive situations.
Experience of working in an emergency service or similar fast-paced communications environment.
Project management experience.
Special Conditions
This post has been designated as ‘Politically Sensitive’ under the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (as amended).
Travel throughout the Warwickshire Policing Area, with peripatetic working as required.
On call commitment – estimated to be one week in every six.
Requirement to work unsociable hours including weekends.
The duties of this post may expose the post holder to disturbing/unpleasant images.
We want our organisation to be as diverse as the community it serves. We welcome applicants from all sections of the community.
You will be required as part of Warwickshire Police recruitment process to successfully complete vetting and credit checks.
For informal enquiries please contact laura.pithouse@warwickshire.police.uk.