Register with GCN

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Part 1 of 6: Membership type
  • Become a member of GCN:

    You must be working as a communicator in the UK civil service to become a member of the Government Communication Network.

  • Register as a civil servant:

    If you are working in the UK Civil Service, you can register to view and receive email alerts for job vacancies. You will not have access to some of the networking areas of the site which are only available to government communicators.

    If you work for a non-departmental government body (NDPB) you can also become a member of GCN or register as a civil servant.

  • Are you a member of the public?:

    This site is for civil servants only. Please visit the Cabinet Office website where there is information about government communication, including contact details.

Part 2 of 6: Confirm your acceptance of the registration process

To become part of GCN you must supply the following information:

  • Your name and contact details
  • A UK civil service email address where you can receive email
  • Your organisation and civil service grade or grade equivalent

Sharing your details

GCN contacts database

We would like to include some of your details in the GCN online contacts database. This database is only visible to other government communicators.

Director of Communication

We may want to share your details with your Director of Communication in the future. Please confirm if you are happy for us do this:

Third parties

We will not share your details with any other third party.

Part 3 of 6: Contact details

Enter your name and email address:



E-mail address: You must supply a valid civil service email address which can access to receive email. You will be sent an email to this address for account verification. It will also become your username.



You can also add a second email address to which we can also send any job alerts or further communications. This is optional.




Part 4 of 6: Organisation and career details

Enter your organisation details [all fields are required]:





Are you a trained interviewer?


If yes, do you want people to be able to see this on the online contact database?
Part 5 of 6: Job vacancy alerts

Choose the disciplines, grades, regions and job options for which you would like to receive email alerts.

Alert Disciplines


Alert Grades


Alert Regions


Job Options


E-mail

Part 6 of 6: Choose a password

Enter a password that you will use to login to the GCN website. Your password must be seven or more characters and should include a number, an upper-case letter and a lowercase letter.