Culture and Engagement Specialist

As a Culture & Engagement Specialist, you will lead organisation-wide listening and engagement activity, using curiosity, creativity and analysis to design interventions that genuinely improve the colleague experience. There is real scope to explore new ways of doing things and continuously improve, working in a team that values professional curiosity supported by insightful data. You will partner with stakeholders across all SLC directorates, building a strong internal network and enhancing your personal profile as a trusted culture and engagement expert. This is a meaningful opportunity for someone passionate about making things better for people, while strengthening organisational performance.

All candidates must submit a CV and a personal statement of no more than 300 words outlining their suitability for the role.

• Demonstrable skill in gathering, interpreting and using qualitative and quantitative colleague sentiments and insight to inform culture and engagement interventions, practical opportunities for improvement and support evidence-based programme decision-making

• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, able to convey cultural insight, complex data and strategic priorities in an engaging, compelling way to diverse audiences

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across People teams and wider organisation

• Ability to plan, prioritise and deliver multiple initiatives simultaneously with minimal supervision, meeting agreed timescales and quality standards

• Sound judgement and professionalism when handling sensitive colleague feedback, ensuring confidentiality, integrity and appropriate escalation where required

• Ability to adapt approach and messaging to suit different audiences, organisational contexts and levels of change readiness

• Practical experience delivering culture, engagement or colleague listening activities within a complex organisation

• Experience gathering, analysing and interpreting colleague feedback from multiple sources, such as surveys, focus groups or qualitative insight

• Proven experience working with a wide range of stakeholders, building effective relationships and influencing without formal authority

• Experience translating insight and feedback into practical recommendations and actions that support organisational priorities

• Experience contributing to cross-functional projects or programmes, balancing business-as-usual delivery with improvement activity

• CIPD qualification (Level 3 or working towards Level 5) or relevant experience

• Relevant CPD in engagement, culture, inclusion or wellbeing or demonstrable interest and engagement in engagement, culture, inclusion or wellbeing

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Some of the benefits you can expect when you join SLC are:

• Competitive salary
• Civil service pension
• Digitally enabled blended working ? typically, 3 days at home with 2 days in the office ? if this doesn?t suit your home life you can work from the office full time.
• 28 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays, and extra day?s leave if you are moving home
• Opportunity to buy or sell holidays
• Option to use flexi time to earn two extra days holiday per month
• Flexible working contracts
• Family friendly leave - including 52 weeks maternity/adoption leave with six months at full pay and the option to share leave with a partner
• Life insurance cover providing protection equivalent to four times basic salary
• Recognition of success through performance related pay awards
• Opportunity to give back to the community through annual volunteering day
• Bespoke contributory SLC Reward+ lifestyle benefits package, including retail discounts
• Structured career development using SLC?s Career Pathways programme.

Job contact :

• Name : ask_recruitment@slc.co.uk
• Email : ask_recruitment@slc.co.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : ask_recruitment@slc.co.uk