IT Adoption and Communications Specialist

Thrive on openness, respect, and collaboration? Good. Us too. Buro Happold has an exciting opportunity for an IT Adoption and Communications Specialist to join the IT team.

Buro Happold is currently going through a period of strategic growth. This growth has resulted in an increased demand within the IT and Business Services Team, as we support BAU and drive forward with improvement initiatives.

As an extremely collaborative professional, you excel at building excellent working relationships and possess a high level of political sensitivity and ethics. Your essential soft skills include effective listening, persuasion, a collaborative leadership style, flexibility, self-motivation, creativity, and insightfulness.

The role of IT Adoption and Communications Specialist will be to focus on the drive of the adoption of systems, tools, processes, and technologies across the practice. This will require multichannel communications that measure and understand impact and adoption.

IT Adoption and Communications Specialist will own, manage and build on the existing framework for internal company messaging and devise processes to improve engagement and increase the adoption of Information Technologies within the business .

Required Skills:

• Excellent communicator who can talk with specialists and distil important aspects from technical information for different audiences.
• Strong organisational skills with planning experience.
• Experience of driving adoption of systems, tools, processes, and technologies.
• A flair for copywriting and creating interesting and memorable content.
• Can select appropriate media to create brochures, infographics, digital signage, presentations, how-to guides, FAQs, posters and email campaigns.
• Emotionally Intelligent – can communicate empathetically. Considers cultural sensitivities, and equitable and inclusive messaging to diverse groups.

Required Experience:

• Evidenced experience in successful adoption of IT solutions.
• Practical knowledge of creating internal business social media content or communications.
• Time management - completing projects within designated guidelines.
• Can multitask in a fast-paced business environment.
• Able to manage small projects independently.
• Can create content using Adobe Creative Suite and screen recording software.

Qualifications and Accreditations:

• Qualifications in communications, PR, journalism, marketing or related field would be preferred

What We Offer You

Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package including, private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.

Craving a more extraordinary everyday?

Apply today and be where exceptional is everywhere.

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.