Your briefing has 44 internal and change communications roles, including openings at Vanguard, Seattle Children's, Lilly, Lloyd's, BNP Paribas, and Deel. Four are remote in the main listings; eight sit in transformation or change comms.

Then the main read: 2026 Integral Index. You know the feeling: the engagement score looks good, but the room still feels off. A survey of 2,006 U.S. employees starts to explain why.

More below the listings.

🇺🇸 USA

Amazon
PR Specialist and Internal Communications Lead
Arlington, VA

Carnival Cruise Line
Specialist, Communications
Miami, FL

Cengage
Associate Internal Communications Specialist
Remote

Checkr
Senior Internal Communications Manager
San Francisco, CA

Corning
Manager, Global Internal Communications
Charlotte, NC

Deel
Director of Internal Communications
Remote

DoorDash
Associate, Internal Communications
Multiple locations

Forgent Power
Internal Communications Manager
Dayton, MN

Halliburton
Manager, Thought Leadership & Internal Communications
Houston, TX

John Deere
Communications Specialist
Ankeny, IA

Labcorp
Manager - Internal Corporate Communications
Durham, NC

Lilly
Associate Director, Frontline Workforce Communications - FDE
Remote

McDermott Will & Emery
Internal Communications Coordinator
Multiple locations

Michelin
Site Communication Manager
Greenville, SC

MITRE
HR Communications Lead
Bedford, MA; McLean, VA

Motorola Solutions
Senior Internal Communications Specialist
Schaumburg, IL; Chicago, IL

Novo Nordisk
Senior Manager, Executive & Internal Communication
Clayton, NC

Providence
Communication Specialist
Renton, WA

Schwab
Senior Manager, Communications
Westlake, TX

Seattle Children's
Director, Internal Communications
Seattle, WA

Stellantis
Internal Communications Editorial Manager
Auburn Hills, MI

UVA Health
Communications Specialist (Executive Communications)
Charlottesville, VA

Vanguard
Manager, Internal Communications
Charlotte, NC; Scottsdale, AZ; Malvern, PA

Vanguard
Senior Manager, Internal Communications
Charlotte, NC; Scottsdale, AZ; Malvern, PA

Wintrust
Internal Communications Specialist
Rosemont, IL

🇨🇦 CANADA

Canada Life
Associate Manager, Communications
Multiple locations

Husky Technologies
Communications Analyst
Bolton, ON

Kraft Heinz
Internal Communications Analyst
Toronto, ON

Thumbtack
Lead Internal Communications Manager
Remote

🇬🇧 UK

Acacium Group
Internal Communications Apprentice
Manchester

BNP Paribas
Internal Communications Executive
Swindon

Evri Group
Corporate Communications Executive
Leeds

Historic England
Internal Communications Officer
Multiple locations

Lloyd's
Senior Internal Communications Manager
London

Royal British Legion
Senior Internal Communications & Engagement Officer
London

Unnamed UK organisation via Artis Executive
Head of Internal Communications
Bristol

↪️ TRANSFORMATION / CHANGE COMMS

Centric Consulting
Change & Communications Lead
Remote (US)

Computacenter
Communications Coordinator
Hatfield (UK)

Conexus
Senior Communications Advisor – Internal
Regina, SK (CAN)

HALO
Senior Director, Corporate Communications
Remote (US)

Housing Ombudsman Service
Change Communications and Engagement Officer
Remote (UK)

Komatsu
Sr. Manager, Internal Communications
Milwaukee, WI (US)

Manulife
Director, Global Communications
Toronto; Waterloo (CAN)

Navy Federal Credit Union
Senior Internal Communications Specialist (Executive and Strategic Communication)
Vienna, VA; Pensacola, FL (US)

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The engagement fallacy

Engagement has had a long run. It gave leaders a way to ask whether people felt connected, and gave IC and HR one number to point at instead of a room full of anecdotes.

The 2026 Integral Index does not retire that number. It shows how little it tells you on its own.

Integral and The Harris Poll surveyed 2,006 full-time U.S. employees in February. Three-quarters, 76%, score as engaged. On its own, that looks like health.

Then the same data finds 33% of the workforce is engaged and stuck: they would consider leaving but cannot afford to lose benefits like health care.

Integral calls them Captive Contributors. They show up. They care. And they describe a workplace their freely engaged colleagues do not recognize: 38% expect corrosive behavior from the people around them, against 6% of those engaged and free to leave.

Same engagement score. Six times the expectation of sabotage, leaks, and colleagues warning recruits away.

That takes the conversation into territory senior IC already knows:

• Do managers have the context to lead through change?

• Do employees trust what they are told?

• Can people speak up early enough for the organization to learn anything?

• Is AI making people curious, or quiet?

Managers are the cleanest example. Employees with an activated manager are 55 points more likely to describe a supportive environment, the biggest lever Integral found. Yet the support managers get is shrinking: training in employee communications fell from 60% to 52% year over year, coaching from 47% to 37%, and networking groups from 49% to 42%.

That gives IC a concrete argument: fund manager context before the message goes out, not after it lands badly.

AI runs the same way. Among employees who use AI at work, 41% fear it will replace part or all of their job, and that fear has the strongest tie to a corrosive environment of anything Integral tested: 39% expect corrosive behavior, against 10% of low-concern users.

A link to the training portal will not hold that uncertainty. Telling people what will change, what stays human, who decides, and what they can ask without sounding difficult might.

Practitioners are circling the same point. John Buchholz commented on Integral’s post warned on against reading engagement at the surface. And on Frequency, Jenni Field and Chuck Gose put the report beside AI layoffs and AI-written comms, and named the gap employees keep noticing: what organizations say versus what they do.

The research points the same way. Public Relations Review research has tied transparent communication and trust to openness to change. A 2024 Journal of Innovation & Knowledge paper found that AI-driven job insecurity can push people to hide what they know through lower psychological safety.

A few of this week's roles sit in that same layer of work. Lilly, Manulife, Seattle Children's, Centric, and Vanguard are hiring for frontline communication, AI communication, activation, change readiness, measurement, and channel ownership.

The score tells you where to look. The conditions tell you what to build.


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