United Kingdom · Public Relations Communications · Senior (5-8 years)

Senior Employee Communications Specialist

Here is the whole job, in plain words. What it is, a real day, what you decide, how you're judged, how people get here and where they go next. Then the part no course gives you: twelve AI tutors who learn your work.

  • Experience bandSenior (5-8 years)
  • Direct reportsNo direct reports
  • Reports toEmployee Communications Manager
  • UK framework levelUsually a manager, or the deepest specialist in a team

Also advertised as Senior Internal Communications Lead · Employee Engagement Communications Manager · Senior Communications Partner (Internal)

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1What this role really is

This role isn't just about sending emails; it's about making sure everyone in the company actually 'gets' what's going on. You'll be the person who translates big company changes into clear, human language that resonates with staff, from the frontline to the executive suite. Think of yourself as the internal storyteller, making sure our people feel informed, connected, and understood, especially when things get a bit messy.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

SharePoint Online / Simpplr / Staffbase (Intranet & Comms Platform)Advanced

Building new intranet sites or pages for programme content, configuring audience targeting, creating complex analytics dashboards to track engagement, and training content contributors from other teams.

Designing and implementing channel strategies for programme announcements, building automated workflows for routine updates, and leveraging advanced features like Viva Connections for targeted news feeds.

Qualtrics / SurveyMonkey Enterprise / Glint (Survey & Feedback)Advanced

Designing complex surveys with branching logic for message recall or sentiment, analysing results to identify trends, and creating summary reports and presentations for programme stakeholders.

Canva for Teams / Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Premiere Rush) / DescriptAdvanced

Developing new visual templates for programme campaigns, producing polished multi-channel creative assets (graphics, short videos), and editing audio/video with high proficiency for executive messages.

Asana / Monday.com / Jira (Project Management)Expert

Building and managing complex editorial calendars and campaign project plans for your programmes, allocating resources, tracking dependencies, and ensuring timely delivery of all communications.

Workday HCM (for audience list-pulls)Basic

Using the HRIS system to pull targeted audience lists for specific programme communications (e.g., all managers in a certain region, all employees in a specific department).

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing inWhere you are nowThe step above
Content Approval for Programme CommunicationsDraft content for review by supervisor; no independent approval.Draft and propose content; seek manager approval for all external-facing or sensitive internal comms.Own content drafting and secure sign-off from relevant programme leads (HR, Legal); manager review for high-risk or novel communications only. You're the gatekeeper.
Channel Strategy for a ProgrammeSuggest channels based on templates; supervisor makes final decision.Propose channel mix for routine comms; manager approves for major campaigns.Design and implement the full channel strategy for your owned programmes, consulting with manager on significant new channel introductions or major shifts.
Crisis Communication Response (within programme scope)Escalate immediately to supervisor; assist with drafting holding statements under direct guidance.Draft holding statements and initial internal messages for manager review; help coordinate cascade.Lead the internal comms response for programme-specific issues, drafting initial communications, coordinating stakeholder alignment, and managing the cascade, with manager oversight for high-severity incidents.
Vendor Selection (e.g., creative support)No involvement.Research potential vendors; provide recommendations to manager.Suggest and vet specific creative agencies or tools for programme-specific needs up to £5K, with manager final approval. You're bringing solutions to the table.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Message Recall Rate
Percentage of employees who can accurately recall the top 3 key messages from a specific campaign.
Target · >70% recall rate within 48 hours post-campaign

After the Q2 benefits enrolment campaign, a pulse survey showed 75% of employees could correctly identify the three new key benefits, up from 60% last year.

Intranet Engagement on Programme Content
Average page views and time spent on key intranet articles related to your owned programmes.
Target · >60% of target audience views within 48 hours; average time on page >90 seconds

The 'Annual Review Process' page saw 70% of relevant employees view it within 24 hours, with an average dwell time of 2 minutes 15 seconds, indicating strong engagement.

Manager Cascade Effectiveness Score
Score reflecting how well people managers feel equipped to discuss a specific change or programme with their teams.
Target · >80% of managers rating 4 or 5 out of 5 on 'feeling equipped'

Following the new HR system launch, 85% of managers reported feeling confident and prepared to answer team questions, a significant improvement from previous launches.

On-Time & Error-Free Delivery
Percentage of scheduled communications for your programmes published by deadline with zero major errors (e.g., broken links, significant typos, incorrect dates).
Target · 95% on-time, <1 major error per quarter

You delivered 14 out of 15 scheduled communications for the Q3 HR programme on time, with the single delay due to an executive review hold, and no major errors were reported.

Stakeholder Trust & Proactivity
You're seen as a trusted advisor, brought in early to help shape the message, not just 'make it pretty' at the last minute.
  • Programme leads from HR or other business units proactively involve you in initial planning meetings. They ask for your communication strategy input before content is even drafted. You're asked to present comms plans to senior leaders, not just execute them.
Clarity & Empathy in Messaging
Your communications are consistently praised for being clear, concise, and genuinely empathetic to the employee experience, avoiding jargon.
  • Direct feedback from employees (e.g., via Yammer, Slack, internal surveys) that your messages are easy to understand and address their concerns. Legal and HR teams comment on how you simplify complex topics without losing accuracy. You consistently 'pass' the pub test with your drafts.
Issue Anticipation & Mitigation
You spot potential communication pitfalls before they become problems, proactively addressing employee concerns or leadership questions.
  • You flag potential 'hot spots' in a message during review, suggesting alternative phrasing or additional FAQs. You predict common employee questions and ensure answers are ready for managers. You proactively suggest a holding statement for a potential issue before it escalates.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Making a Tangible Difference to People's Day-to-Day

You'll feel a real sense of achievement when an employee tells you they finally understood a complex HR policy because of your clear comms. Seeing your work help someone navigate a change or feel more connected to the company is a big win for you.

Getting feedback that your benefits enrolment guide saved people hours of confusion and helped them pick the right plan.

Solving Complex Communication Puzzles

You enjoy the challenge of taking a messy, multi-layered message with lots of stakeholders and distilling it into something simple, accurate, and impactful. It's like being a detective, piecing together the story.

Successfully crafting a message about a tricky policy update that satisfies Legal, HR, and employees without sounding like corporate jargon.

Being a Trusted Advisor to Senior Leaders

You'll get satisfaction from being the 'go-to' person for a programme lead who needs communication advice, not just execution. You like being in the room where decisions are made about how to talk to our people.

A senior HR leader asking for your strategic input on how to announce a sensitive change, rather than just handing you a draft to 'pretty up'.

What frustrates people
  • The 'Information Vacuum': Being brought in too late to genuinely influence the message.
  • Death by Committee: Your clear message gets diluted by endless rounds of review.
  • The Rogue Executive: A leader going off-script and undoing careful alignment.
  • The 'Soft' Metrics Stigma: Constantly defending the value of engagement metrics.
  • Emotional Labour: The toll of drafting and disseminating bad news (e.g., layoffs, benefit cuts).
  • The Last Mile Problem: You can craft a brilliant message, but you can't force managers to deliver it effectively.
  • The 'Fix-it' Button: Being treated as a reactive 'beautification' service rather than a strategic advisor.
What this role does not give you
  • Complete autonomy over message content (you'll always have stakeholders)
  • A quiet, predictable routine with no urgent, last-minute requests
  • Direct control over business strategy or policy decisions
  • Immediate, direct financial impact on the company's bottom line

6Who you work with

This role directly impacts employee engagement, understanding of company strategy, and retention during key organisational moments. Effective communication during programmes like annual reviews or benefits changes can significantly reduce HR queries, boost participation, and improve overall employee satisfaction. Get it wrong, and you're looking at widespread confusion, frustration, and a potential dip in productivity.

Inside the business
  • HR Business Partners and HR Leadership
  • Legal Counsel
  • Programme Managers (e.g., for Benefits, Performance Management)
  • Senior Leaders within specific business units
  • IT and Digital Workplace teams
Outside the business
  • External benefits providers (for comms review)
  • Creative agencies (for design support)
  • Platform vendors (e.g., Simpplr, Staffbase support teams)

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • Proven experience (5+ years) in an internal communications role, ideally within a medium to large enterprise.
  • Demonstrable experience leading communication for specific programmes or workstreams from strategy to execution.
  • A strong portfolio of written communication examples, including executive ghostwriting, programme launch plans, and multi-channel content.
  • Experience working directly with senior leaders and cross-functional teams (e.g., HR, Legal, IT).
  • A solid track record of using data (e.g., survey results, engagement metrics) to measure communication effectiveness and inform future strategy.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Advanced Digital Workplace Platform Management

Our internal platforms (SharePoint, Simpplr, Viva) are becoming more sophisticated, offering deeper integration with HRIS and other systems. Moving beyond basic content publishing to architecting audience segments, custom workflows, and personalised content experiences will be key to cutting through the noise.

API integrations for content syndication · Personalisation and dynamic content delivery · Advanced analytics and reporting dashboards · Governance models for distributed content creation

  • This week: Explore the advanced features and admin settings of our current intranet/comms platform.
  • This month: Complete any vendor-specific training or certification programmes available for our key platforms.
  • Month 2: Propose and implement one new advanced feature (e.g., a custom audience segment, a new content type) for one of your programmes.
  • Month 3: Lead a workshop for junior team members on advanced platform usage.

Quick win: Experiment with building a new page layout or a simple automated workflow in SharePoint or Teams Viva. See what's possible beyond the basics.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Regularly read industry publications and blogs (e.g., Ragan, simply-communicate, IoIC) to stay on top of trends.
  • Attend industry conferences and webinars focused on employee engagement and internal communications.
  • Participate in professional networking groups for internal communicators to share best practices and challenges.
  • Seek out opportunities to mentor junior colleagues or present on communication topics internally.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration

Honestly, competitors are already using tools like GPT to draft reports and initial communication plans in minutes that used to take hours. The communicators who figure out how to effectively 'talk' to AI and integrate it into their workflow will simply outproduce their peers. It's not about being replaced; it's about being supercharged.

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Built for Senior Employee Communications Specialist

5 units that map to this job, from the qualifications that cover it.

  1. Understanding and Leading ChangePearson Education Ltd · covers 1 of 3 standardsLevel 5
  2. Managing the change processChartered Management Institute · covers 1 of 3 standardsLevel 6
  3. Engage with the decision making process in a commissioning organisationChartered Management Institute · covers 1 of 3 standardsLevel 5
  4. Work productively with colleagues and stakeholdersInstitute of Administrative Management · covers 1 of 3 standardsLevel 5
  5. Manage stakeholder relationshipsInstitute of Administrative Management · covers 1 of 3 standardsLevel 5
These are the real units behind this job, in the order they rank for it. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration

Honestly, competitors are already using tools like GPT to draft reports and initial communication plans in minutes that used to take hours. The communicators who figure out how to effectively 'talk' to AI and integrate it into their workflow will simply outproduce their peers. It's not about being replaced; it's about being supercharged.

  • Context windows and token limits
  • Temperature settings for different tasks
  • RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) architectures
  • Output validation and hallucination detection
  • Prompt chaining for complex analysis

Data Storytelling for Internal Audiences

Leaders are increasingly data-driven, and 'soft' comms metrics sometimes struggle to get attention. Being able to connect communication efforts to hard business outcomes (e.g., how clear comms reduced support tickets or improved retention) is becoming critical. It's about moving beyond 'we sent an email' to 'here's the impact that email had'.

  • Correlation vs. Causation in Comms
  • Visualisation Best Practices for Internal Reports
  • Connecting Comms Metrics to Business KPIs
  • Narrative Structure for Data Presentations

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Change Management Frameworks (e.g., ADKAR, Kotter)
  • Narrative Architecture & Storytelling
  • Executive Ghostwriting & Voice Capture
  • Audience Segmentation & Persona Mapping
  • COMMS Measurement & ROI

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    Employee Communications Specialist (L2)

    2-3 years

    Skills to master

    • Mastering content creation for specific channels, managing content calendars, basic analytics reporting, and supporting larger campaigns. You'd be owning a channel before moving to owning a programme.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Consistently delivering high-quality, error-free content on time.
    • Proactively identifying opportunities to improve channel engagement.
    • Successfully managing stakeholder feedback for routine communications.
    • Demonstrating initiative in taking on more complex tasks.
  2. 2

    Junior Communications Manager (External Focus)

    3-4 years

    Skills to master

    • Understanding external media relations, public relations strategy, and brand messaging. The transition here would involve shifting from an external to an internal audience focus, learning to tailor messages for employees.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Strong understanding of brand voice and messaging.
    • Ability to translate external strategy into internal context.
    • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
    • A keen interest in employee engagement and organisational culture.
  3. 3

    HR Business Partner / HR Generalist

    4-5 years

    Skills to master

    • Deep understanding of HR policies, employee relations, and talent management. This path would involve transitioning into a communications role with a strong HR foundation, bringing a unique employee-centric perspective.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Excellent understanding of employee needs and concerns.
    • Experience advising managers on sensitive employee topics.
    • Strong written and verbal communication skills honed in HR.
    • A desire to focus on broader organisational messaging rather than individual HR cases.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your career here isn't a fixed ladder; it's more like a climbing wall with many different routes to the top. We're committed to helping you find the path that best suits your strengths and ambitions, whether that's leading teams or becoming a recognised expert in your field.

Pay & demand

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The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Senior Employee Communications Specialist is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

…and nine more, matched to you after your first chat. Meet all twelve

13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Understanding and Leading ChangeLevel 5

Applied to your work in Senior Employee Communications Specialist

By completing this unit, learners will explore change management, analyse examples of change, investigate barriers to change, and assess factors for effective and successful change within organisations.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

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Evidenced on your work in Senior Employee Communications Specialist

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

  • Message Recall RatePercentage of employees who can accurately recall the top 3 key messages from a specific campaign.After the Q2 benefits enrolment campaign, a pulse survey showed 75% of employees could correctly identify the three new key benefits, up from 60% last year.>70% recall rate within 48 hours post-campaign
  • Intranet Engagement on Programme ContentAverage page views and time spent on key intranet articles related to your owned programmes.The 'Annual Review Process' page saw 70% of relevant employees view it within 24 hours, with an average dwell time of 2 minutes 15 seconds, indicating strong engagement.>60% of target audience views within 48 hours; average time on page >90 seconds
  • Manager Cascade Effectiveness ScoreScore reflecting how well people managers feel equipped to discuss a specific change or programme with their teams.Following the new HR system launch, 85% of managers reported feeling confident and prepared to answer team questions, a significant improvement from previous launches.>80% of managers rating 4 or 5 out of 5 on 'feeling equipped'
  • On-Time & Error-Free DeliveryPercentage of scheduled communications for your programmes published by deadline with zero major errors (e.g., broken links, significant typos, incorrect dates).You delivered 14 out of 15 scheduled communications for the Q3 HR programme on time, with the single delay due to an executive review hold, and no major errors were reported.95% on-time, <1 major error per quarter
These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Senior Employee Communications Specialist to Employee Communications Manager / Lead (L4), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 5 · in progressAI Fluency→ Employee Communications Manager / Lead (L4)→ your design
Where this takes you

Your career here isn't a fixed ladder; it's more like a climbing wall with many different routes to the top. We're committed to helping you find the path that best suits your strengths and ambitions, whether that's leading teams or becoming a recognised expert in your field.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration
Senior Employee Communications Specialist
  • Change Management Frameworks (e.g., ADKAR, Kotter)
  • Narrative Architecture & Storytelling
  • Executive Ghostwriting & Voice Capture
  • Audience Segmentation & Persona Mapping
  • COMMS Measurement & ROI
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Senior Employee Communications Specialist is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. You'll move from owning specific programmes to managing entire, major, one-time change campaigns (e.g., a large re-organisation, an acquisition integration, a new company-wide strategy launch). This means more strategic ownership and potentially managing a small project team.

    • Crisis & Issues Management (Advanced): Developing and pressure-testing full crisis communication plans.
    • Budget Management (small scale): Managing budgets for specific campaigns (e.g., £50K-£100K).
    • Vendor Management (Advanced): Negotiating with and managing external agencies for campaign support.
    • Executive Coaching (Comms): Advising senior leaders on their personal communication style and impact.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, you're busy. The good news is, AI isn't here to replace you; it's here to give you back hours in your week. Imagine spending less time on the tedious bits and more on the strategic, human-centric work that only you can do. Our team is already using AI to make our lives easier, and we'll show you how.

In Employee Communications, AI can take a huge chunk out of the repetitive, first-draft work and help you get to insights faster. It's about augmenting your brainpower, not replacing it. We're talking about getting a head start on content, understanding sentiment quicker, and making sure your messages are always on point.

First Draft Automation

Use generative AI (like ChatGPT or Claude) to churn out initial drafts of routine communications for your programmes—think promotion announcements, new hire welcomes, or holiday reminders. It handles the basic structure and tone, leaving you to focus on adding that personal, empathetic touch and refining the message. This means you're not staring at a blank page anymore.

Sentiment Analysis Accelerator

Feed thousands of open-ended comments from employee surveys or pulse checks into an AI tool. It'll instantly categorise them by theme (e.g., 'compensation,' 'work-life balance') and sentiment (positive, negative, neutral). What used to take days of manual reading can now be done in minutes, helping you spot trends and critical issues for your programmes much faster.

Executive Briefing Assistant

Need to prepare a leader for an All-Hands Q&A or a programme update meeting? Use AI to summarise complex internal documents, market reports, or even competitor analysis into concise bullet points. This rapidly generates background material and talking points, ensuring your executives are always well-prepared and on message.

Tone & Accessibility Check

Run your draft communications through an AI-powered tool that checks for tone (is it empathetic enough? too corporate?), reading level, and inclusive language. It gives you instant feedback to ensure your message lands correctly with our diverse, global workforce, reducing the risk of misinterpretation or alienating anyone.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a Senior Employee Communications Specialist?

Common routes in include Employee Communications Specialist (L2) (2-3 years), Junior Communications Manager (External Focus) (3-4 years) and HR Business Partner / HR Generalist (4-5 years). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Senior Employee Communications Specialist progress to?

This role can lead on to Employee Communications Manager / Lead (L4) (3-5 years), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Senior Employee Communications Specialist in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 5 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Senior Employee Communications Specialist?

Increasingly, Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration and Data Storytelling for Internal Audiences. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows a Senior Employee Communications Specialist, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

  • Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
  • Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
  • Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 3 national skill standards. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Senior Employee Communications Specialist: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 5

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Public Relations Communications

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you'll gain here are highly transferable. Employee Communications professionals are needed in virtually every industry, from tech startups to global corporations, non-profits, and government organisations. Your expertise in navigating change and connecting with people is universally valued.

Not sure this is the right direction?

Work out what you actually want from work first, then come back and see which roles fit it. Takes about ten minutes.

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