At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead engagement for Cyber Uplift, ensuring clear communication and stakeholder understanding.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking organisation focused on cybersecurity and stakeholder engagement.
- Benefits: Competitive day rate, hybrid working, and contract until the end of 2026.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with opportunities for professional growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in cybersecurity while enhancing your communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in stakeholder engagement and ability to simplify complex information.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 80000 £ per year.
As Cyber Uplift Change & Engagement Lead, you support the Cyber Uplift programme by acting as the key interface between Cyber delivery teams and the wider business. The role focuses on ensuring stakeholders understand what is changing, why it matters, when it happens, and what is required. It works closely with departmental stakeholders and communication teams across the business to coordinate engagement activity and support effective adoption of Cyber initiatives. This role is critical to ensuring cyber activity is clearly understood, well-coordinated, and effectively landed, with a consistent approach across the organisation, helping keep the business, colleagues and customers safe and secure.
Experience and Skills Required
- Strong experience in stakeholder engagement, change or business readiness roles within large organisations
- Proven ability to work across complex transformation or technology programmes
- Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
- Ability to translate complex or technical information into clear, simple messaging
- Experience working with senior stakeholders and leadership teams
- Strong planning, coordination and organisational skills
- Comfortable working across multiple initiatives simultaneously
- Ability to influence and drive outcomes without direct authority
Responsibilities
- Act as the primary engagement interface for Cyber Uplift activity across the business
- Coordinate engagement activity across Cyber Uplift initiatives and align with Cyber Awareness activity, to present a single, coherent view of Cyber activity across the organisation
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholder groups across organisations
- Identify, map and maintain stakeholder communities and ensure the right people are engaged at the right time
- Translate technical Cyber activity into clear, audience‑appropriate messaging and key points
- Work closely with the Corporate Affairs comms business partners, particularly the BP for Digital, to equip departmental comms teams with the right messaging to land via the most appropriate local channels
- Support the development of messaging, briefings and materials for leaders and stakeholder groups
- Ensure stakeholders understand upcoming changes, impacts and actions required
- Coordinate awareness, readiness and adoption activity ahead of key milestones
- Gather feedback and insight from the business and feed this into delivery teams
- Monitor effectiveness of engagement activity and adjust approach as needed
Behaviour
- Collaborative and people‑focused
- Clear and confident communicator
- Proactive and well‑organised
- Pragmatic and outcome‑oriented
- Builds trust quickly and works effectively across teams
What Good Looks Like
- Stakeholders understand Cyber changes and what is required of them
- Engagement is coordinated, timely and aligned across initiatives
- Messaging is consistent and delivered through the right channels
- Business areas feel informed and prepared rather than surprised
- Feedback is captured and used to improve delivery
- Cyber activity feels joined up and well managed from a business perspective
What's in it for you?
- This is a contract until the end of 2026
- A day rate, IR35 in‑scope, either PAYE or Hays‑approved Umbrella company
- This role provides hybrid working with access from home and occasional office visits in Waterside (2 or 3 days per week)
Comms and Engagement Manager in London employer: Cyber Security training courses
As a Comms and Engagement Manager within our Cyber Uplift programme, you will thrive in a collaborative and people-focused environment that values clear communication and proactive engagement. Our hybrid working model allows for flexibility, with the opportunity to work from home while maintaining essential connections through occasional office visits in Waterside. We are committed to your professional growth, offering a dynamic role that not only enhances your stakeholder management skills but also contributes significantly to the safety and security of our business and customers.
Contact Details:
Cyber Security training courses Recruitment Team
