Strategy and Communications Strategy and Communications sits at the centre of the organisation, bringing together several teams with organisation-wide remits and mutual collaboration opportunities. The work of the directorate’s teams includes delivery of major events, designing and leading public affairs or marketing campaigns, providing data, evidence and analysis, leading cross-organisational programmes, to making sure we plan for and can respond to emerging events or emergencies in our city.
About the team
This is an exciting opportunity to join a small, collaborative and committed team responsible for supporting the statutory Deputy Mayor with responsibility for fire in their oversight of London Fire Brigade (LFB); and coordinating and contributing to policies that relate to the safety of Londoners.
You will have the opportunity to develop relationships across the Greater London Authority (GLA) and LFB; and will gain an insight into the operations of one of the busiest fire and rescue services in the world. You will also see how these operations intersect with other emergency services, and the work of different teams within the GLA.
LFB (as well as the fire and rescue sector) is undergoing significant and wide-ranging transformation as it responds to the recommendations from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, and inspections from His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMIC...