Responsibilities

• Deliver a range of communications activities that align with our key strategic plans.
• Work on campaigns and engagement work across a variety of channels, including print, digital and social media.
• Support with enquiries from the media on a variety of topics.
• Work on several creative projects at any one time and ensure that all communications activities are evaluated and assessed to ensure they are having the impact we are aiming for.
• Gain a full understanding of council services to successfully support the wider organisation and build and maintain key relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
• Understand the news agenda, both locally and nationally, to ensure the council is in a good position to react and respond to anything of relevance.
• You’ll be required to participate in an out-of-hours on-call rota, for which an additional allowance is provided.

Requirements

• Relevant degree, alternative qualification or relevant professional experience.
• Ability and knowledge to develop creative ideas across all forms of communication and inputting this into a range of platforms, including social media.
• Ability to write effectively for a range of audiences and communication channels and the sound and accurate IT knowledge to deliver this.
• Developed communication and interpersonal skills and experience to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders and maintain relationships.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to anticipate and resolve issues, whilst making pragmatic decisions.
• Ability to manage and prioritise your workload effectively when demands and deadlines change.
• Excellent literacy and numeracy skills to understand and interpret research, data and feedback and present analysis accordingly.
• Understand the media and political landscape and the sensitivity of these as well as experience of handing and responding to press enquiries.
• Experience of working on a variety of communications, ideally in the public sector.

Benefits

• For a full list, please visit our Rewards and Benefits page.