Communications Officer

Responsibilities

• Tell a great story and has experience of producing high-quality social and video content.
• Help promote the Bee Network and the exciting plans for its growth.
• Join a busy and talented team, bringing knowledge and experience of storytelling and social media and explaining what we’re doing in engaging, easily-understood and creative ways that resonate with our customers and the public.
• Have a particular focus on creating compelling broadcast-quality content.
• If you thrive on pace and variety and are comfortable developing stories and shot lists, shooting and editing video, we want to hear from you.
• Reporting to the Communications Manager and working closely with the Social Media & Digital Marketing Manager, you will play a pivotal role in the communications team.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with different teams and functions within TfGM and GMCA and help shape and support the delivery of communication plans, campaigns and online content to support the city-region’s transport vision.
• Come up with creative and imaginative concepts for content, and be confident in delivering ideas from the initial storyboard through to them being published externally.

Requirements

• A positive, proactive, creative and pragmatic communicator with experience of supporting the development and delivery of communications campaigns for businesses and organisations.
• Experience of creating content and drafting copy for use across multiple channels.
• Ability to spot a good story, draft copy and develop scripts, and translate complex data into easy-to-understand information suitable for the audience.
• Significant experience of using social media and digital communications channels to support the delivery of multi-channel communications plans including the ability to film and edit content yourself.
• Strong verbal and written skills with the ability to work with a wide cross section of people and teams both internally and at partner organisations.
• Efficient and organised, with experience of maintaining client relationships and demonstrable influencing skills, including advising colleagues about communications plans and activity.
• On-call team experience; some experience of media engagement and crisis comms would be beneficial.
• Ability to draft copy for media releases and statements as required.

Preferred

• Ideally you might also have experience of working with or for a public transport provider or organisation and have some knowledge of local government and working with elected members and other elected officials.
• Some knowledge of local government and working with elected members and other elected officials is a helpful background.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave starting at 28 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with service, with options to buy more.
• Free travel on buses across Greater Manchester, plus rail or Metrolink travel for your commute, and access to our Electric Vehicle salary sacrifice scheme.
• Local Government defined pension scheme with life cover of 3x salary and options to boost your contributions.
• Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events. Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.
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