Digital Engagement Coordinator
On site
Letchworth Garden City, United Kingdom
Full Time
14-01-2025
Job Specifications
Our IT team are currently recruiting for a Digital Engagement Coordinator to work with the wider digital engagement team ensuring our IT messages, projects and services are communicated and delivered effectively to the business. The IT team are based at our head office in Letchworth Garden City, but this could be done as a remote or hybrid role, but due to the nature of the role there may be some travel required to other Willmott Dixon offices dependent upon business needs.
The digital engagement function is going from strength to strength. The combined skill sets of the service delivery managers and digital engagement principal have resulted in a strong customer-focussed team, assuring IT services are meeting business requirements and delivering technical and consultative support for communications/engagement activities.
Demand for this service is increasing, so we need to increase support for IT project change and work more closely with the business to ensure our projects land well and are adopted to realise the business benefits.
Within this role you will also provide digital upskilling support to our project teams as well as working closely with our new central marketing function in Construction, who will be using our digital engagement services to support their work.
The Role
Within this role you will be responsible for the delivery of our Digital Communications services including:
* Digital training and adoption service - supporting the creation of digital training, guides and tips in support of any IT projects/digital initiatives across the business.
* Communications platform service - contributing to the development and maintenance of IT pages and communications.
* Virtual event support service - delivery of technical support for any events (virtual/hybrid/F2F that require technology support).
* Digital media creation service - supporting communications and marketing teams with the creation of digital media (such as CEO business update videos, factsheets etc).
* Viva Engage service - helping drive digital content across the Viva Engage channel (such as IT Top Tips and M365 functionality updates).
* IT Project Communications and Engagement Service - support with IT project communications and engagement planning, work closely with business stakeholders and central marketing and communications functions.
Essential and Desirable Criteria
Skills, Qualifications and Memberships
Essential
* Strong communications skills both written and verbal
* Understanding of marketing/internal communication strategy
* Experience of working with design software such as Canva
* Digitally confident, ideally with some previous experience in IT or digital media
* Strong customer focus
* Experience of video/media creation
Desirable
* Understanding/experience of the construction industry
* Experience or qualifications in change management
Personal Qualities
Attributes
* Confident communicator
* Customer focussed with excellent people skills
* Good organisational skills
* Able to self-motivate as well as work part of a team
* Ability to understand technical language and translate this into something non-technical people can understand
* Fun and enthusiastic to find new ways to help digitally upskill our people
Additional Information
Willmott Dixon embraces diversity in the workplace and will consider flexible and agile working. We are a disability confident employer.
Benefits: In return we reward our people generously with a competitive package that gives you flexible benefits to fit your lifestyle and priorities. This includes but is not limited to, an enhanced pension scheme, full/heavily discounted private medical, life assurance, incentive bonus and a car scheme which will make us a market leader in sustainable company travel. Applicable roles will benefit from a motoring expenditure allowance (MEA) and everyone can access a new generation of low carbon and electric cars via the Willmott Dixon run car leasing scheme.
About Us
With over 170 years of rich history, Willmott Dixon's purpose is beyond profit; delivering brilliant buildings, transforming lives, strengthening communities and enhancing the environment so our world is fit for future generations. Ensuring that we add lasting value to the neighbourhoods we work in; our values, people, innovation, partnerships and focus on sustainability has allowed us to build a successful and solid privately owned business where our people can thrive.
Willmott Dixon was awarded No 1 in the Best "big" Companies (2022) to work for and the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024 and is the first major contractor and developer to win a King's Award for Enterprise in the category of sustainable development.
About the Company
Willmott Dixon is a privately-owned construction and interior fit-out specialist with the ambition to create a huge and lasting positive, impact on our society. This is not only through what we build; it’s through the fantastic efforts of all our people who make a major contribution to enhancing their local communities. We like to think there's no better place to work; this is underlined by coming 5th in the 2020 Sunday Times list of Top 100 companies to work for - better than any other contractor. We provide excellent tra... Know more
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