Communications Co-ordinator (FTC) Chatham, England
Job description
We're looking for a Communications Coordinator to join our team on a one year fixed term basis.
As a leading housing charity, mhs homes owns and manages more than 10,000 homes in north Kent. We’re looking for a talented and creative communications professional to help support our work tackling the county’s housing crisis.
It’s an exciting time to join mhs homes as we drive forward our approach to customer communications and engagement, delivering great services and making sure people feel supported and listened to.
You’ll play a lead role in raising awareness of our work in local communities, writing the stories that people care about and helping to engage our audiences across a range of external and customer channels.
As well as identifying and researching opportunities for positive news stories, you’ll write and produce press releases and website articles. And you’ll take a lead role in growing engagement with our social channels, developing high quality digital content to reach and inspire our target audiences.
This is an interesting and varied job with lots of scope for learning and development. If you’re an enthusiastic and creative communicator who wants to use their skills to help make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.
About you:
- A skilled writer and storyteller, with excellent attention to detail
- Experience of managing social media channels and growing engagement with key audiences
- Good people skills
- Highly organised, and able to manage competing priorities
We offer:
- Pension contributions matched up to 6%
- 28 days holiday (pro rata) and the option to buy/sell holiday
- Flexible Working
- Training & Development
- A great team of colleagues to work with
- Regular charitable events and a range of wellbeing activities
- Enhanced family leave policies
- A really competitive package of flexible employee benefits
- Access to 2 holiday homes in Dorset and Norfolk
Next steps:
Does the opportunity to help to shape our journey to become an agile, responsive, customer focused and digitally empowered organisation at a leading housing association excite you? If so, we would love to hear from you. Please refer to the attached Role Profile and Leadership Behaviours for further details about the role.
Interviews will reflect prevailing guidance in relation to COVID-19.
To find out what it's like to work for us, view our recruitment video.
Instructions for potential applicants: Please note we're using an anonymised recruitment process for this role. This means the shortlisting panel will only see personal details or CVs if you're shortlisted for interview. Therefore, shortlisting will be done based on your application form and supporting statement. Please complete all sections fully.
We’re Investors in Diversity accredited, and a Disability Confident employer. This means if you tell us you have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the job, we’ll offer you an interview. We can be flexible when assessing people so everyone has the best opportunity to demonstrate they can do the job.
