Communications Officer

Coventry, UK (On-site)

£32K/yr – £38K/yrMid Level2+ years expPermanent

Posted 8 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and coordinate a full-suite of external and internal communications for community programmes and events, including content creation, social media, website updates, stakeholder outreach, and internal updates, with performance tracking and brand consistency.

  • Lead editorial calendar and basic performance reporting across channels
  • Collaborate with designers, volunteers, and partner organisations

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Communications Planning: Support the development and delivery of communication plans for community programmes, events and organisational activities.
  • Content Writing: Prepare clear and engaging website copy, newsletters, announcements, articles, emails and promotional materials.
  • Social Media: Create, schedule and monitor approved content across the organisation’s social-media channels.
  • Website Updates: Maintain accurate programme, event and organisational information on the company website.
  • Community Announcements: Prepare timely notices regarding events, activities, registration details and service updates.
  • Email Communications: Coordinate mailing lists, campaign content, test messages and scheduled email communications.
  • Event Promotion: Produce and distribute promotional content for workshops, meetings, outreach activities and community events.
  • Media Enquiries: Receive routine media requests, gather relevant information and refer sensitive matters to authorised representatives.
  • Stakeholder Communication: Maintain professional communication with community partners, suppliers, volunteers and programme participants.
  • Brand Consistency: Ensure that communications follow approved visual, language and accessibility guidelines.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of experience in communications, marketing, public relations, content creation or community engagement.
  • Strong written and spoken English.
  • Excellent proofreading, editing and content-writing skills.
  • Ability to adapt messages for different audiences and communication channels.
  • Experience managing social-media or website content.
  • Strong organisation and deadline-management skills.
  • Ability to coordinate several campaigns and communication requests simultaneously.
  • Professional communication skills when working with community partners and members of the public.
  • Confidence using email-marketing, website and office-productivity systems.
  • Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.

Preferred

  • Qualification in Communications, Public Relations, Marketing, Journalism, Media or a related subject.
  • Previous experience in a community, charity, membership, faith-based or public-service organisation.
  • Familiarity with content-management and email-marketing platforms.
  • Basic knowledge of graphic-design or image-editing tools.
  • Experience promoting events, programmes or public-information campaigns.
  • Familiarity with website analytics and social-media reporting.
  • Understanding of accessible and inclusive communication practices.
  • Experience coordinating photographers, designers, printers or other creative suppliers.

Benefits

  • Bereavement leave
  • Enhanced maternity leave
  • Enhanced paternity leave
  • Life insurance
  • Paid volunteer time
  • Sick pay