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We're making zero carbon happen
We're OVO Group, a big family of companies united by a single vision: to get to zero carbon, fast.
We call this Plan Zero - and it shows how we'll be fighting the climate crisis and transforming the way people use energy over the next decade. To do this, we need the sharpest minds. Are you up for the challenge?
Do great green things with OVO Energy
So much has changed since we launched in 2009. Our goal remains the same though: make energy cheaper, greener, and simpler. Just as it was on day one.
Everyone belongs at OVO
Our aim is to build a diverse and inclusive movement: teams of brilliant people, with unique talents, skills, passions, and experiences.
We encourage everyone to join us, whatever your gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, life experience, or background. So please come as you are - we can't wait to meet you.
Where in the world of OVO will I be working?
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 net zero carbon living.
What will I be doing?
As People Engagement Executive your role is to help our people connect to our purpose, live our values and become advocates for OVO. You'll work hand-in-hand with your manager, our Senior People Engagement Manager, to help drive engagement and alignment behind OVO's strategic business priorities, helping create clarity for people on their contribution to these.
You'll be key in making sure that the work the People Engagement team does makes sense for our people - that's everything from content and campaigns, through to recognition, engagement and leadership strategy.
You'll partner widely across a range of teams, who are key to the success of our employee engagement strategy, and build relationships across an extensive network of leaders and colleagues.
Key responsibilities include:
- Work with the Senior People Engagement Manager to design and deliver an employer engagement plan that helps OVO become the leading place to work for people who want to change the world.
- Help craft engagement campaigns and narratives that inform and inspire our people, and measure outputs to capture campaign success.
- Always-on horizon scanning for the latest trends and best practice - with a particular focus on enabling two-way conversation and driving employee engagement.
- Work with our social media managers to coordinate content that works hard for our employer brand on our owned social channels as well as internally.
- Encourage employees to amplify key social content and become brand advocates.
- Support on our main people engagement campaigns like recognition, Peakon, Wellbeing and Plan Zero.
- Leading and supporting on ad-hoc engagement projects as directed by the Senior People Engagement Manager.
Work with the broader team to deliver our regular rhythm of meetings including:
Monthly Town Halls
- Monthly Village Hall support
- Annual all-company event
- Planning and support of key in-house talks, brown-bags, workshops
- Planning and delivering Social Impact (CSR) events
- Engagement events that bring all our offices and people together
And to support on:
Peakon admin and comms, drumming up awareness and also post-comms.
- Budget support.
Knowledge & Experience:
- Experience in internal communications within a fast moving, international business with a culturally diverse and dispersed team
- Prior experience working with HR/People teams.
- Knowledge of social media and an eye for innovative, high impact communications across multi-media channels
- Strong project management skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Fluent in English required; fluency in other European languages useful but not essential
Person specification
- Hands-on self-starter
- Inspires passion and excitement around shared goals and values
- Can work collaboratively and enjoys working in a fast-paced environment
- High attention to detail
- Results-oriented and strong sense of ownership
Is this the job for me?
Ideally you will have:
- Experience of working in a fast paced, busy, collaborative internal communications team.
- Excellent writing skills and attention to detail. Able to write in a variety of styles for different channels.
- The ability to see the big picture as well as focus on the details.
- A highly organised approach - adept at managing multiple stakeholders within complex and changing businesses.
- An exemplary team player attitude, and at your best when working within a collective to deliver a shared vision.
- A very strong understanding of internal comms channels and the appropriate use of internal comms channels in times o