Engagement Manager

Lloyd’s Register Foundation

Title: Engagement Manager

Location: London, UK.

Are you passionate about storytelling and engaging diverse teams? Lloyd's Register Foundation is seeking a dynamic Engagement Manager to join our strategic communications team in London. You'll play a key role in sharing Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s mission, connecting our global community, and amplifying our social purpose.

If you have experience in internal communications, thrive in a global setting, and want to help shape the future of safety in the maritime industry, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Apply now to be part of an organisation that values purpose-driven work, cultural diversity, and professional growth.

What we’re looking for 
A full time Engagement Manager is now required to join the strategic communications team. This role will lead the sharing of Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s mission, programmes of work and our success stories across the colleague network of our trading company, Lloyd’s Register (LR) – a leading global classification society.

What we offer you 

• Competitive Salary
• Working in a global company with the ability to work with different cultures and diverse people.
• The opportunity to work for an organisation that has a strong sense of purpose, is value-driven and helps colleagues to develop professionally and personally through our range of people development programs.
   

The role 

• Effectively and creatively help ‘tell the Foundation’s story’ within Lloyd’s Register, using internal communication channels, town halls, client safety forums and other key events.

• Embed our shared social purpose internally across the Foundation and LR through developing and sharing engaging and meaningful content.

• Amplify Foundation generated content and messages (including around our joint initiatives such as the LR Maritime Decarbonisation Hub) across the LR colleague network globally.

• Build relationships and work closely with LR’s internal communication team to ensure messages are tailored, targeted and planned in appropriately with other group wide messaging.

• Work collaboratively with LR’s internal communication team on key deliverables which require Foundation input, such as the annual leadership summit, companywide conference and ongoing employee value proposition programme to ensure Foundation colleagues and messaging are appropriately represented, integrated and aligned

• Support the Foundation’s Pathway to Impact initiative in which LR employees are invited to apply for funding and volunteering time to help engineer a safer world.

• Help to build Foundation colleagues understanding of the maritime sector, opportunities and challenges, build our networks within the sector through LR’s expertise and relationships, as well as increase our awareness of LR colleagues’ roles and responsibilities.

• Work with the Foundation’s strategic communications team to embed the new Foundation strategy within the Foundation itself and across LR.

• Work with the Head of Communications to deliver Foundation all team meetings, organising speakers and content.

• Work with the Head of Communications to deliver Foundation town halls across LR’s geographical footprint as agreed.

What you bring 

• Significant experience in an engagement, interface and/or internal communications role within a complex global communications function
• Experience of working with technical and engineering communities of practice (desirable)
• Experience of convening groups of employees and quickly building good working relationships
• Experience of working with a variety of internal communication channels including SharePoint and Viva Engage (previously Yammer)
• Knowledge of the charity sector (desirable)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A good understanding of the maritime sector
• Experience of working in a matrix multi-site organisation

About us 

Lloyd’s Register Foundation is an independent global charity with a unique structure and an important mission: to engineer a safer world. We reduce risk and enhance the safety of the critical infrastructure that modern society relies upon in areas such as energy, transport and food. We do this by supporting high quality research, accelerating technology to application and through education and public outreach. Our unique structure comes from the fact that we own a significant trading company, Lloyd’s Register (LR). We share the same mission and work together to make the world a safer place. 

Be a part of 

Lloyd’s Register is wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a politically and financially independent global charity that aims to engineer a safer world by promoting safety and education. For a thriving ocean economy, Lloyd’s Register colleagues and Lloyd’s Register Foundation work together to fund research, foster industry collaboration, and develop action-oriented solutions to make the world a safer place.  

Want to apply 

We hire people with a wide variety of skills, experience, and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, women, people identifying as LGBTIQIA+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, careers, and other varied groups. 

We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we possibly can to support you. 

 If you don't tick every box in these ads, please don't rule yourself out. We focus on hiring people who share our goal of working together for a safer, sustainable, thriving ocean economy. 

 We care, we share, we do the right thing.  

If the above matches your field of interest and your qualifications, please apply online as soon as possible- by the latest 31.01.2025.

We conduct ongoing interviews and close the position once the right person has been found.

All inquiries are treated confidentially.

Please note: We do amend or withdraw our job and reserve the right to do so at any time including prior to the advertised closing date.

 If you have further questions about this role, please contact us at careers@lr.org and we will respond to you as soon as possible.

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