Communications Officer

On behalf of Homes England, we are looking for a Communications Officer (Inside IR35) for a contract to run up until 31/3/27 which is fully remote.

Homes England, the government’s housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the appetite, influence, expertise, and resource to drive positive market change, and our mission is to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, improve affordability and create a sustainable housing market.

Following the publication of the government’s Levelling Up White Paper, Homes England has also been tasked with a core role in spearheading regeneration, partnering with places to reduce economic disparity, empower local leaders and create equal opportunities across the country to ensure communities reach their full potential.

As a Communications Officer, your main responsibilities will be:

• Develop long-term comms roadmaps.
• Turn strategy into clear action.
• Simplify complex messages.
• Create engaging internal content.
• Deliver end-to-end programme communications.
• Drive behaviour and culture change.
• Align comms to programme milestones.
• Manage communication risks and issues.
• Produce stakeholder briefings and updates.
• Ensure governance and compliance standards.
• Influence senior stakeholders.
• Improve communication effectiveness.

Essential:

• SharePoint expert with strong document and content management experience.
• Develop and deliver communications strategies and roadmaps.
• Proven change communications experience within complex programmes.
• Exceptional writing, editing and storytelling skills.
• Create engaging, people-focused content across multiple channels.
• Translate complex information into simple, accessible messaging.
• Strong understanding of accessibility and inclusive content design.
• Deliver end-to-end communications campaigns and activity.
• Experienced supporting high-profile and sensitive change initiatives.
• Confident influencing senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Balance multiple priorities while maintaining quality and attention to detail.
• Apply governance, compliance and risk management across communications.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a Disability Confident employer, Homes England encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates. Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process

Armed Forces Covenant

As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, Homes England welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".