Communications Officer - Part Time

Ipswich, Suffolk, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelPart time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

Own external content and media relations, guiding timely messaging and incident readiness across teams.

  • Lead external content and press materials
  • Coordinate rapid response to breaking news and journalist inquiries
  • Collaborate across functions to ensure consistent messaging and act as deputy when needed

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Create high-quality content for external communications including press releases and award entries
  • Monitor breaking news and respond effectively to journalists' questions
  • Able to respond quickly to storms and other major incidents and prepare on those occasions to travel/work outside normal working hours.
  • Collaborate across the business to inspire content ideas and ensure consistent experiences and messaging.
  • Deputise for the manager on occasion

Requirements

  • Essential Skills
  • - Excellent written and verbal communications skills
  • - Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification/experience
  • - Interpersonal skills and confident networker
  • - Demonstrable news sense and the ability to identify compelling stories

Preferred

  • Desirable Skills
  • - Microsoft Word, Excel
  • - Social media
  • - Photography and video skills

Benefits

  • 25 (pro rata) Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays.
  • Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid
  • Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
  • Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme, Season Ticket Loan
  • Tax efficient benefits: Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes
  • Occupational Health support
  • Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers' products
  • Discounted gym membership
  • Employee Assistance Programme
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Alternative Networks (now part of Daisy Group)

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Alternative Networks was acquired by Daisy Group in December, 2016.Daisy helps UK businesses build the digital foundations they need to thrive in the digital economy.By joining the dots between old and new technology - and across the converging worlds of IT, telecoms and cloud - we help to make underlying infrastructure simple, secure, reliable and invisible.We provide services to half of the country’s high street retailers and are at the technological heart of the nation’s critical infrastructure. We help keep trains running and planes flying. We support doctors in the care of their patients. And we connect businesses of every kind to the customers they serve.For more information, please visit the Daisy Group LinkedIn company page: www.linkedin.com/company/daisy-group.

Founded in 1994
Newington, Waterloo, London Bridge, Southwark, Lambeth North, New Kent Road, Westminster Bridge, Southwark Cathedral, Lambeth, Old Kent Road, South Bank, Borough, Bermondsey, England, GBR
126 employees (9 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
1% CEO approval

Salaries

Communications median pay in the United Kingdom

£44K/yr

Most pay falls between £33K and £60K. Based on 106 salaries.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
7 (6% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Google Ads Budget
$69

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~126
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Communications Officer - Part Time

Alternative Networks (now part of Daisy Group) · Ipswich, Suffolk, UK · Hybrid