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Salary banding: £31,500 - £40,000

Experience: Learner - ideally this will be your first or second opportunity in the communications and engagement space

Working pattern: Full-Time

Role Type: 12 month fixed-term contract

Reporting to: Suzy McFall, Senior People Engagement Manager

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Creative. Organised. Fast-paced

Top 3 qualities for this role:

• Someone who can take a complex message, simplify it and make it engaging.
• Someone who can mutli-task and really thrives with variety - could be writing an article on our brilliant benefits one minute then be on the ground with a walky-talky at an event the next.
• A real team player who isn’t afraid to roll their sleeves up and get stuck in.

Where you’ll work:

At OVO, we understand that a one size fits all approach doesn’t work for everyone. That’s why we created the OVO Way of Flexibility.

All our roles are hub based (Bristol, Glasgow or London), providing a dedicated space for collaboration, connection and teamwork. You’ll also have the flexibility to work from home.

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

You’ll be working in the People Engagement team. We’re responsible for designing and delivering a proactive, progressive engagement strategy to help us become the leading place to work for people who want to change the world.

We help people to connect to and be inspired by our purpose, share in our values and become advocates of our mission to drive progress towards zero carbon living.

This role in a nutshell:

We’re looking for a real team player (who can be starting out in their career) to join our Engagement team to help us land our engagement strategy and deliver connection across our business. Although this role will report into one of our Senior Engagement Managers, you’ll span across the team and work on a variety of projects and content that will be targeted to one area of the business or OVO wide. Here in People Engagement, we encourage our people to connect at events across our hubs, so we’d also like you to play a part in that too and be willing to get involved and learn.

Your key outcomes will be:

• Managing all our new content requests in our system (which you’ll pick up in no time).
• Writing the majority of content for our key channels, including designing digital signage on Canva.
• Supporting with any ad hoc communications to go to our customer-facing teams, in partnership with our Knowledge team.
• Supporting the business with content campaigns such as Winter Readiness - helping our people support our customers when they need us the most.
• Raising all POs, keeping a PO Tracker up to date, and doing all new supplier setups.
• Adhoc design support.

You’ll be a successful Internal Communications & Engagement Executive here at OVO if you…

• Are comfortable juggling multiple things at once! Whether it’s different messages, plans, projects or stakeholders - there will be a lot of variety; you’re able to keep on top of it all and are prompt in delivering.
• Enjoy working at pace
  • at OVO the world moves quickly to make sure we deliver for our people and customers as quickly as we can.
• Are super organised
  • you can help share the overall content and channels plan with the team and hold everyone to account.
• Are a good writer and can tell a compelling story
  • sometimes we need to take really complex messaging and turn it into something really easy to understand for our people.
• Are hungry to learn
  • at OVO we always want our people to feel they can stretch and grow in all they do. In the People Engagement team, you’ll be working with a team of highly skilled and experienced pros, eager to help you thrive in your new role.
• Help everyone feel they belong
  • We believe it takes everyone to change the world and we want to make sure our people can bring their whole selves to work every single day. We’re all working towards the same goal, but we know we’re all unique

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £31,500 and £40,000, depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different, have a chat with us!

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal.

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. It’s an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, add to your pension, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer:

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

For your healthWith benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more
For your wellbeingWith gym membership, gadget, travel and cyber insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, DNA testing, dental insurance, and more For your lifestyle With extra holiday buying, discount dining, culture cards, tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations

For your home Get up to £300 off any OVO Energy plan (when you pay by Direct Debit), plus personal carbon offsetting and great discounts on smart thermostats and EV chargers
For your commute Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you! If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..