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Location: Our head office in Wilmslow, near Manchester. Our priority is to enable all our people to work productively and effectively from any location. Through hybrid working we offer great home and office-based working opportunities and more general flexibility over where you work to be productive. There will be times when you will be expected to attend the office to collaborate with colleagues or travel due to business need.

The salary range for this role is £49,549- £56,129 pa, with potential for further progression.

About us

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the UK’s independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals. It is our goal to increase the public’s trust and confidence in how their data is used and made available. By staying up to date with evolving technology, we’re able to enforce the laws that we’ve helped shape whilst also providing an excellent public service.

Our work is interesting and immensely rewarding – it’s of national importance and increasingly in the public eye. As a result, more people than ever before are turning to us for help. As such, we’re growing and looking to add to our teams in many areas!

About the role

The Insight and Evaluation Manager plays a key role in shaping the ICO’s approach to communications – leading work to help us target our comms for impact, measure our success and drive improvements in what we do.

You will provide insight about our audiences and what key stakeholders think about our work, using data and other evidence to help us choose the right strategies, tools and channels to achieve our communications objectives.

You will also lead the evaluation of our communications, ensuring we are able to measure our objectives meaningfully from the outset, demonstrate the value of communications and learn lessons.

As a member of the Corporate Communications management team, you will work collaboratively to bring together insight and research from sources within and outside the directorate to inform communication strategies and plans.

Your work will enable Comms to act as the voice of the audience during policy development and service design to ensure the best communication approach. You will also work with colleagues in the wider organisation to ensure the ICO’s overall research programme is coherent and effective.

You can read more about our team and the work we do here.

Part time applicants are welcome to apply and will be considered. Please state the working pattern you require when submitting your application.

About you

You’ll have experience of leading insight and evaluation work that helps to deliver impactful, high-quality communications in a fast-moving environment.

You will demonstrate expertise in collating evidence and research in ways that ensure it can be used to inform effective communications; identifying gaps and areas for improvement, and leading work to address these.

You will be confident in your ability to brief colleagues at all levels of seniority, presenting up-to-date insights in ways that are accessible and engaging.

Strong analytical skills and experience of a range of insight and evaluation techniques, including both qualitative and quantitative research, are essential to this role. You will also have experience of procuring and managing research to provide robust outputs and actionable insights.

Line or matrix management experience in a communications setting is desirable.

Post source:jobs.theguardian.com

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