Communications and Engagement Executive

Company Description

Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.

Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.

We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.

Overall job purpose

To provide communications and engagement support to colleagues across the Directorate. This role will support the directorate to effectively manage support requests and activity, develop content for internal and external communications, deliver internal and external events, and assist the Communications and Engagement directorate with other tasks and projects as required.

Job Description

Support management of the Communications and Engagement grid to support the planning and implementation of communications activity and ensure directorate oversight of wider organisational activity
Manage the communications, engagement and events form with responsibility for triaging and ensuring timely responses to requests
Provide operational support to the Participant Panel at Genomics England including organising their quarterly meetings, writing minutes, booking travel and accommodation, reporting spend against the allocated budget and supporting their attendance at external events
Support delivery of internal communications including bi-weekly Exchange newsletter and development of engaging and accessible content on the intranet
Collate content, create and distribute email communications using software such as MailChimp
Schedule and publish content on our external website as required
Offer logistics support for our internal events, and external online and in-person events such as our annual research conference
Support management of shared inboxes ensuring timely responses to enquiries
Support production of quarterly reports to monitor and evaluate communications and engagement activity
Provide administrative support to colleagues across the Directorate as required
Act as a company brand champion, ensuring that communications reflect our brand and messaging
Know and understand the meaning behind our virtues and leadership behaviours and embody them in all aspects of your role

Qualifications

Whilst we recognise relevant qualifications we are mostly interested in your experience in line with the job description.

Additional Information

Salary from: £34,000

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including: 

Generous Leave: 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, additional leave for long service, and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
Family-Friendly: Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), and a Give As You Earn scheme.
Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs.Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace 

Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background. 

Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.  

Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary to