Communications Coordinator

IDH Group has an exciting opportunity for a Communications Coordinator to join our team based in Bolton. The role is a full time, permanent position offering a salary of up to £25,000.

IDH Group is the UK’s largest dental corporate with a network of over 660 practices nationwide. We have over 7500 employees looking after 10 million patients. We believe that our growing ‘Group’ philosophy is the way forward in Dental Care - sharing standards, clinical excellence, increased employee opportunities and better training for all of our dentists

Communications Coordinator - Role Purpose

To manage central communications on behalf of all areas of the business so that internal stakeholders (practices, field and support centre) across the UK are informed of organisational news and provided with operational direction.

- To assist in developing communications, policies and procedures, Clarity as a communication tool and project tasks as and when required.

- To support in identifying global issues and working to provide solutions to be communicated accordingly.

Communications Coordinator – Role Accountabilities

- Using the communications calendar, work with all business areas to produce all regular communications

- Work with all Support Centre teams to communicate when and where required important business issues that fall outside of the regular communications.

- Work with all business areas to provide communications support for projects including attending meetings, producing communications plan and launch packs

- Act as the ‘gatekeeper’ for all communication from Support Centre to practices, helping to make sure that workload generated from Support Centre is managed and phased

- Responsible for ensuring that any reactive global issues are communicated as required and updates/solutions are provided.

- Assist in the production of company policy and procedures.

- Assist in managing the feedback channel between Support Centre and the Field for policy and implementation.

- Assist in intranet development

- Manage all internal communications distribution lists

- Provide support and consultancy to all business areas to ensure all internal communications are brand aligned.

- Supporting the work of key functions within Central Operations

Communications Coordinator – Person Specification

Experience

- Substantial internal communications experience within organisations with geographically dispersed staff and a variety of audiences.

- Experience of successfully influencing people at all levels demonstrating the ability to use diplomacy.

- Experience of writing communications in both business and colleague engagement contexts.

- Experience of using complex information to create clear communication relevant to the audience.

- Creative communication skills using all available visual tools to improve engagement of business communications.

- Experience of managing an intranet for internal communications.

Skills

- Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

- Excellent editing and proof reading skills.

- Excellent software skills including InDesign, PowerPoint, Word, Excel any other relevant internal communications tools.

- Project Management skills.

- Analytical and logical thinker.

- Ability to deal with a demanding workload demonstrating a flexible approach.

- Outstanding organisation skills including publication scheduling, meeting coordination and event planning.

Closing Date: 30th April 2015

To apply to join our team as a Communications Coordinator please click ‘Apply’ below.