AMS PSR

On behalf of Department for Business and Trade (DBT), we are looking for a Stakeholder and Communications Lead (Inside IR35) for a contract to the end of December based remotely.

As a Stakeholder and Communications Lead your main responsibilities will be:

• Lead the development and delivery of the programme's Stakeholder Engagement and Communications Plan, ensuring alignment across policy, delivery, communications and DDaT teams.
• Develop and manage the Business Change Plan, ensuring it is integrated with stakeholder engagement activities and supports best practice change management.
• Coordinate stakeholder segmentation, engagement and communications activities to support successful programme implementation.
• Develop high-quality communication materials and business change products that enable consistent messaging across the programme.
• Support the planning, coordination and secretariat of key stakeholder forums, including Implementation Steering Groups and governance meetings.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers, delivery partners and senior stakeholders to drive collaboration and successful outcomes.
• Coordinate end-to-end delivery activities across delivery bodies and suppliers, ensuring plans, milestones and dependencies remain aligned.
• Monitor supplier and partner readiness, proactively identifying risks and implementing mitigating actions to maintain delivery momentum.
• Track delivery timelines and provide regular progress reviews, ensuring issues are resolved quickly and escalated where appropriate.
• Work closely with PMO, implementation, policy and DDaT teams to ensure a joined-up delivery approach.
• Produce high-quality governance artefacts including highlight reports, delivery dashboards, decision papers and programme updates.
• Translate complex programme information into concise, meaningful communications suitable for Director-level and senior executive audiences.
• Provide timely reporting on programme progress, risks and delivery confidence to support informed decision making.
• Promote effective stakeholder engagement and business change practices throughout programme delivery.

Essential:

• Proven experience leading stakeholder engagement and strategic communications within large, complex programmes.
• Experience developing and delivering stakeholder engagement, communications and business change plans.
• Strong change management experience with the ability to support organisational and operational transformation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex information for senior leadership audiences.
• Demonstrable experience building and managing relationships with senior stakeholders, suppliers and delivery partners.
• Strong programme coordination skills with experience managing dependencies, risks, milestones and delivery plans.
• Experience producing governance documentation, reports, dashboards and decision papers for programme boards.
• Ability to identify delivery risks early and implement effective mitigation strategies.
• Comfortable working across multidisciplinary teams including PMO, policy, digital and operational delivery functions.
• Strong organisational skills with experience supporting governance meetings, forward planning and secretariat activities.
• Ability to work at pace, manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality outputs under tight deadlines.

Desirable:

• Experience working within Government or the public sector.
• Knowledge of Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) programmes and delivery.
• Experience supporting large-scale implementation or transformation programmes.
• Experience working with supplier onboarding, implementation and commercial engagement.
• Familiarity with Industrial Strategy, business transformation or major change programmes.
• Experience working within Agile or multidisciplinary programme environments.

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

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, DBT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

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".