Join us as a CDO People Lead, where you will play a key role in supporting the Group Chief Data Office's People Agenda. In this position, you will support the design and implementation of strategic plans for communications, education and people engagement. You will support the internal communication platforms such as SharePoint and intranet sites, administer key communication initiatives including town halls, newsletters and regular progress updates on people engagement initiatives to senior management. Additionally, you will support the development and delivery of the Chief Data Office (CDO) training strategy, collaborating with the CDO Change Delivery team to ensure effective training and communication plans are implemented for key projects.
To be successful as a CDO People Lead, you should have experience with:
- Strong writing skills and the ability to present confidently to senior audiences.
- Hands on experience developing SharePoint for managing and maintaining internal communications.
- Ability to produce engaging media content.
- Experience in designing informative and effective training materials.
- Leadership communication, using detailed, systematic insight research to help senior leaders understand employee sentiment, and empower them to communicate empathetically with their people.
- Business strategy alignment, building belief in the strategy of the organization, and the progress being made, with a strong focus on the impact employees have on the client experience.
- Culture and employee proposition communication, designing and implementing communication interventions that influence individual behaviour to create a culture built on the Barclays Mindset; demonstrate why the organization is a great place to work.
- Change delivery, creating communication interventions that build employee commitment and capability through organizational change.
- Crisis and issues management, working closely with the senior team as part of the management response, focused on the role of employees in engaging clients.
- Capability building, leading and developing a high-performing team, building individual skills and team capabilities.
Desirable Skills / Good To Have
- Ability to craft clear, compelling narratives for diverse internal audiences.
- Comfortable engaging senior leadership with concise, insightful messaging.
- Experience supporting town halls, newsletters, intranet updates, and progress summaries.
- Ability to develop engaging visual, video, and multimedia communication artifacts.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with content material design, as well as job-specific skillsets.Location - Pune
Purpose of the role
To build strong and effective partnerships with the senior leadership of the organisation, advising on how to engage and influence employees to achieve the business's goals, through an insight-based employee communications strategy, backed up with outstanding execution capability.
Accountabilities
- Leadership communication, using detailed, systematic insight research to help senior leaders understand employee sentiment, and empower them to communicate empathetically with their people.
- Business strategy alignment, building belief in the strategy of the organisation, and the progress being made, with a strong focus on the impact employees have on the client experience.
- Culture and employee proposition communication, designing and implementing communication interventions that influence individual behaviour to create a culture built on the Barclays Mindset; demonstrate why the organisation is a great place to work.
- Change delivery, creating communication interventions that build employee commitment and capability through organisational change.
- Crisis and issues management, working closely with the senior team as part of the management response, focused on the role of employees in engaging clients.
- Capability building, leading and developing a high-performing team, building individual skills and team capabilities.
Vice President Expectations
- To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
- If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L Listen and be authentic, E Energise and inspire, A Align across the enterprise, D Develop others..
- OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
- Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
- Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
- Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset to Empower, Challenge and Drive the operating manual for how we behave.
