Head of Community Response and Stakeholder Engagement

About You
Are you an experienced, positive and motivated engagement leader?
Do you have a strong commitment to deliver for communities and protecting the environment?
Do you have the skills and knowledge to head the community response to a 24/7 emergency incident – providing the right information at the right time?

If so we want to hear from you….

We’re looking for a forward thinking, inspiring person to head up our Community Response and Stakeholder Engagement team.
You will be in charge of developing and delivering our engagement plan as well as remaining ready to respond to time critical, high profile emergency incidents as and when they occur.
You will be able to see the bigger picture and provide strategic communications insight and advice to our Chief Executive and Executive Leadership Team.
We don’t expect applicants to meet every single desired attribute.

If your experience looks a little different from what we've asked for and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

About The Role
Although we’re a fairly small organisation we deliver a lot of services.

This role offers the exciting opportunity to work across and beyond the business to engage key audiences and raise proactive awareness of mining-related safety issues, assist our operations teams, and bring to life why we do what we do as an organisation.
If you’d like to find out more then please get in touch!
Role location: Mansfield / Hybrid
For more detail about the role please refer to the attached job description.

Schedule:

Application closing date: 1st April 2024
Sifting date: 2nd/3rd April 2024
Interviews: 15th April 2024
(If you are unavailable on these interview dates, please make us aware and we will look at different dates)
Security:
Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.

About The Coal Authority
Our benefits:

  • A market leading pension scheme - our employer contribution rate is around 27%
  • A choice of working patterns; full-time, part-time, job-share
  • Flexible working arrangements available
  • Generous holiday allowance – 27.5 days annual leave, plus the ability to flex an extra 6 days in addition to 8 public holidays
  • Adoption or shared parental leave of 26 weeks full pay (subject to qualifying criteria)
  • Support with professional qualifications
  • Payment of one annual professional subscription
  • Free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme
  • Diversity Network Groups
  • Mental Health Allies
  • Employee discounts available through Edenred
  • Annual health check
  • £15 per month towards wellbeing activities
  • Civil Service Sports and Social club
  • A values based recognition scheme
  • On-site free parking, tea, coffee and soft drinks in the Mansfield office
Working with us:
We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible: job share, flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours.

Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.
With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important.
Who we are:
Here at the Coal Authority, we really are a great team to work with.

We’re united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.
We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution.
We are excited about what our future holds.

Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK.

By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.
We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values.

We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
Here at TCA we don’t just accept difference – we celebrate it, support it, and thrive on it for the benefit of our colleagues, our customers and our communities.

We are proud to be an inclusive employer.

We are committed to developing a supportive, inclusive, caring and positive community.

We encourage applications from people from different backgrounds, identities, cultures and beliefs.

Diversity is vital to our success and innovation and is fundamental to our values of being trusted, inclusive and progressive.
As part of our commitment to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria who are disabled or from a minority ethnic community.
If you require any reasonable adjustments or alternative format application forms you can get in touch with us by contacting the team by email at recruitment@coal.gov.uk or by phone on 01623 637000.


  • Start: 15/03/2024
  • Rate: £53,934 - £65,919
  • Location: Mansfield,England
  • Type: Permanent
  • Industry: Consultancy
  • Recruiter: The Coal Authority
  • Contact: Admin The Coal Authority
  • Tel: 01623 637149
  • Email: to view click here
  • Reference: 0260
  • Posted: 2024-03-15 10:32:08 -

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