Artificial Intelligence Communications and Engagement Manager

Details
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Reference number

464376

Salary

£44,620
National: 44,620 \- £49,065

London: £47,355 \- £52,090
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28\.97%
GBP

Job grade

Senior Executive Officer### Contract type

Permanent### Business area

DSIT \- Digital, Technologies and Telecoms### Type of role

Communications / Marketing### Working pattern

Flexible working, Full\-time, Job share, Part\-time### Number of jobs available

1
Contents
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• Location


• About the job


• Benefits


• Things you need to know


• Apply and further information

Location
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Bristol, London, ManchesterAbout the job
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Job summary

The Government Digital Service (GDS) is the digital centre of government. We are responsible for setting, leading and delivering the vision for a modern digital government.

Our priorities are to drive a modern digital government, by:

• joining up public sector services


• harnessing the power of AI for the public good


• strengthening and extending our digital and data public infrastructure


• elevating leadership and investing in talent


• funding for outcomes andprocuringfor growth and innovation


• committing to transparency and driving accountability

We are home to the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (I.AI), the world\-leading GOV.UK and at the forefront of coordinating the UK’s geospatial strategy and activity. We lead the Government Digital and Data function and champion the work of digital teams across government.

We’re part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and employ more than 1,000 people all over the UK, with hubs in Manchester, London and Bristol.

The Government Digital Service is where talent translates into impact. From your first day, you’ll be working with some of the world’s most highly\-skilled digital professionals, all contributing their knowledge to make change on a national scale.

Join us for rewarding work that makes a difference across the UK. You'll solve some of the nation’s highest\-priority digital challenges, helping millions of people access services they need.

Job description

We’re looking for an individual with experience of supporting engagement and communications work to join the Government’s Chief AI Officer Group in GDS as part of the Public Sector AI team. This is a rare opportunity to shape how government communicates and engages on one of its highest‑profile priorities: the adoption of artificial intelligence across the public sector. You will be working on a range of exciting programmes to re\-imagine how public services are delivered and how AI can help citizens have a better experience of interacting with government. This is a high\-priority area for government and attracts substantial attention from colleagues across government, parliament, the public sector and civil society.

The role focuses on communications, engagement and secretariat delivery, supporting flagship cross\-government activity including high\-profile senior forums such as the AI Leaders Group and the Responsible AI Panel, as well as targeted departmental deep\-dives on AI adoption challenges. The postholder will play a key role in ensuring these forums are well run and that the Unit’s engagement with departments and stakeholders is coordinated, high quality and impactful. You will work closely with policy, delivery and technical stakeholders across government, as well as communications colleagues in GDS, DSIT and departments, to support engagement activity that helps drive real\-world adoption of AI. The successful candidate will be confident working with senior audiences, highly organised, and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast\-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:

You will

• Provide secretariat support for high\-profile senior groups, such as the AI Leaders Group and the Responsible AI Panel. You will work closely with AI leaders to deliver high\-quality agendas, papers, actions and meeting readouts


• Plan, coordinate and manage end\-to\-end logistics for senior meetings and engagement forums including cross\-government meetings, panels, and targeted departmental deep\-dives, ensuring papers are produced to a high standard and on time


• Support delivery of the Unit’s communications and engagement activity, including drafting and maintaining engagement materials such as core messaging, decks and engagement logs


• Work with colleagues across GDS, DSIT and other departments to coordinate communications and engagement activity, ensuring consistency of messaging and approach across senior forums


• Support the delivery of events, workshops and community activity, including stakeholder sessions, cross\-government engagement and themed discussions linked to AI adoption challenges


• Build and maintain strong working relationships with officials across government and beyond to support engagement on AI adoption and responsible AI


• Track actions, decisions and follow\-ups from meetings, panels and engagement activity, ensuring good governance, clear ownership and delivery discipline

Person specification

Essential Criteria:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience drafting clear, concise materials for a range of audiences, including senior stakeholders


• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks, deadlines and stakeholders simultaneously


• Experience of providing secretariat support for senior groups, boards or forums


• Experience supporting communications and engagement activity, including events, stakeholder engagement or community building


• Confidence working with a wide range of stakeholders across large organisations


• Attention to detail, good judgement, and the ability to work proactively both independently and as part of a team

Desirable Criteria:

• An interest in emerging technologies such as AI and the role of technology in transforming public services.


• Prior experience of working on AI engagement, policy or strategy.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Working Together


• Communicating and Influencing


• Delivering at Pace

Benefits
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Alongside your salary of £44,620, Department for Science, Innovation \& Technology contributes £12,926 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

• A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.


• Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28\.97%.


• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30\.


• An extensive range of learning \& professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.


• Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.


• A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40\-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need.

Office attendance

The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non\-home based location for 40\-60% of the time over the accounting period.

Things you need to know
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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.### Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
The standard selection process for roles at GDS consists of:

• a simple application screening process \- We only ask for a CV and cover letter of up to 750 words. Important tip \- please ensure that your cover letter includes how you meet the skills and experience listed in the “person specification” section above.


• a 60\-minute video interview which will include a pre\-prepared presentation, details of which will be shared with candidates that make it to the interview stage.

Depending on how many applications we get, there might also be an extra stage before the video interview, for example a phone interview or a technical exercise.

In the event we receive a high volume of applications, we will conduct the initial sift against the lead criteria which is: CV Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview.

Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.

Further Information

Reasonable Adjustment

We are proud to be a disability confident leader and we welcome applications from disabled candidates and candidates with long\-term conditions.

Information about the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and some examples of adjustments that we offer to disabled candidates and candidates with long\-term health conditions during our recruitment process can be found in our DSIT Candidate Guidance. A DSIT Plain Text Version of the guidance is also available.

We encourage candidates to discuss their adjustment needs by emailing the job contact which can

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