Content and Events Officer

Responsibilities

• Take briefs from the Communications and Engagement Lead and turn them into content ideas, scripts, shot lists, draft copy and finished assets.
• Capture content before, during and after events, including short videos, interview clips, vox pops, photography, quote cards, speaker highlights and behind-the-scenes moments.
• Film and edit simple short-form video content using accessible tools, ensuring outputs feel polished, on-message and suitable for government channels.
• Identify clever, low-cost ways to repurpose one event or story into multiple outputs across LinkedIn, newsletters, intranet, blogs and partner channels.
• Work with programme teams and event leads to spot strong stories, human moments, useful proof points and opportunities to showcase impact.
• Prepare practical event content materials, including capture lists, speaker prompts, social copy, post-event summaries and follow-up assets.
• Maintain a practical content pipeline, helping the team see what is being created, what is ready for approval and what can be reused.
• Apply agreed tone, accessibility, brand and approval requirements while bringing creative judgement to how content is packaged.

Requirements

• Experience creating digital content, ideally including short-form video, photography, social posts or event content.
• Ability to take a brief, ask the right questions and turn direction into practical outputs.
• Basic filming and editing skills, with confidence using accessible tools such as a smartphone, Canva, CapCut, Adobe Express, Premiere Rush or equivalent.
• Good writing and editing skills, with the ability to produce clear copy, captions, scripts and summaries.
• Good creative judgement, including knowing how to make content feel engaging, purposeful and appropriate for the audience.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage deadlines, contributors, approvals and multiple pieces of content at once.

Preferred

• Experience capturing content at live events, webinars, roundtables, conferences or stakeholder sessions.
• Experience making social-first content for LinkedIn, intranet, newsletters, blogs, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels or similar formats.
• Understanding of content planning, channel objectives, accessibility and basic performance measurement.
• Experience working in government, public sector, technology, digital, data, cyber, education or workforce development.

Benefits

• A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
• Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
• An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
• Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.