Head of Communications

London, Birmingham, Bootle, Leeds, Newcastle, Swansea, Glasgow.

London: £62,575 - £74,459 / National: £59,306 - £69,913

Are you an experienced and enthusiastic Communications professional? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

The Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) are an Executive Agency of HM Treasury and a specialist provider of internal audit and counter fraud and investigation services to central government.  

This is a significant opportunity to join a fast-paced and growing organisation; to use your expertise and knowledge to lead, influence and shape the communications function of the Agency. The successful candidate will develop and implement a comprehensive strategy for external and internal communications that is focused equally on our customers and wider stakeholders and on our own people.

You will be the primary source for providing communications advice and guidance to the Executive Committee and Senior Leadership Team; influencing and challenging at a senior level to ensure that communications resonate with our people, our customers, and stakeholders, and are aligned to the needs of the business in a consistent, effective and timely way.

This is an exciting opportunity to make an immediate and long term impact on the Agency’s external and internal presence, including supporting our transformation programme, the future onboarding

of new internal audit teams, and the Internal Audit Function and Profession. The post holder will also support the Agency’s people networks which includes diversity & inclusion, helping them to raise their visibility and value across the Agency.

Benefits of working for GIAA include:

• Competitive salary and in year rewards
• Flexible working
• Civil Service pension
• Season ticket loan and Cycle to Work schemes
• Family friendly HR policies
• 25 days annual leave

We are moving to hybrid office/home working and will consider applications from people able to access any of our main offices: London, Birmingham, Bootle, Leeds, Newcastle, Swansea,

Glasgow.

Government Internal Audit Agency has a strong commitment to equality and diversity and we are a Disability Confident employer. Our aim is to be a department which is open and accessible, recruiting and retaining diverse, talented and high-performing people who support and develop one another.

Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of appointment based on fair and open competition and appointment on merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact by email: [email protected]

If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.