Communications Officer

Application closing date

29/07/2024

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Salary

Grade G £30,825 - £33,945 a year

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Job category/type

Communications / PR

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Job description

Directorate: Chief Executive’s
Hours: 37 hours a week, including occasional evenings and weekends. Part time hours considered
Contract Type: Fixed term until March 2026
Location: Council House and hybrid working

We’re looking for an experienced communications professional to join our ambitious Communications and Marketing team.

This is a great opportunity for someone with a strong communications, PR and marketing background, who is confident, diplomatic and enthusiastic.

As one of our three Communications Officers, you’ll be responsible for developing and delivering insight-based, creative promotional communication and marketing campaigns, that deliver against our business objectives. You will also work on the Council’s busy media desk, liaising and working closely with local and national press, so good PR skills, a strong news sense, and experience of writing news articles, press releases, statements and other media content is essential, as well as experience of working with and managing media relations.

We’re an extremely busy team, but we think our people are some of the best out there! The team is personable, professional, and innovative, and we want our new Communications Officer to mirror those qualities.

You’ll be customer-focussed with a creative outlook, combining a wide range of skills and experience across communications and marketing with plenty of initiative and enthusiasm.

We’re excited to meet you and welcome you to the team.

Next Steps

The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on 29 July 2024. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.

Important Information

Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.

All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.

Before you complete your application form please read our guidance on filling in your application form.

Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.

Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.

We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.

Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality.

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK - 18001 01332 640 844) or at [email protected]. https://www.derby.gov.uk/signing-service/