Colleague Engagement Lead

Barclays•Jefferson, CO

3d•$140,000 - $200,000•Onsite

About The Position

Embark on a transformative journey as a Colleague Engagement Lead. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this influential role, you will help shape the colleague experience across a global technology organization, driving engagement, talent development, recognition, and organizational effectiveness. Working closely with senior leaders and key stakeholders, you will play a pivotal part in building a high-performing, inclusive culture that enables colleagues to thrive while supporting Barclays' strategic desires. This is a unique opportunity to make a visible impact at scale, influencing people strategies that enhance both colleague experience and business performance.

Requirements

Experience developing and implementing people, teams, or colleague engagement strategies
Considerable analytical and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to translate data into actionable insights
Experience producing executive-level reporting, presentations, and business insights
Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to influence senior decision-makers and cross-functional partners
Ample communication skills with experience creating engaging messages, presentations, and colleague-focused content

Nice To Haves

Confirmed ability to oversee multiple programs simultaneously and deliver outcomes in a fast-paced environment
Experience within employee engagement, communications, HR, COO, or business oversee functions
Knowledge of team's analytics and colleague data reporting
Experience using Power BI, SharePoint, or workflow automation tools
Familiarity with Early Careers, learning and development or colleague experience programs
Risk and controls
Change and transformation
Business acumen
Strategic thinking
Digital and technology
Job-specific technical skills

Responsibilities

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.
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.