Communications Officer (Media) RBKC611195 London, England
Job description
Job Summary:
Salary range: £39,615 - £47,736 per annum (Pending pay award)
Work location: London
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 11th September 2023
Interview date: Week commencing 25th September 2023
About Us:
Use all your communication skills as you help to develop and deliver our media strategy.
At the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, we put local people and businesses at the heart of everything we do, working in partnership with them to provide quality services that are responsive, effective and efficient. Committed to acting with openness, honesty, compassion and humility, we aim to listen and understand in a way that is respectful, encourages involvement and meets the needs of all our communities.
The Role:
In this highly visible role, you’ll be responsible for ensuring we explain the work we do to local and national media. You’ll achieve this by using all your proactive skills to place stories, respond to enquiries and create high quality social media content, and constantly evaluate the performance of the broader communications team. You’ll help to develop a successful media strategy, and build great working relationships with journalists as you help them bring positive stories to life. We’ll also expect you to act as an advisor to the team, coaching your colleagues as they develop their own media-facing skills.
But your tasks won’t stop here. You’ll be the go-to communications officer for a council department, helping your colleagues to understand their communication objectives and develop coordinated campaigns for a portfolio of work. Using insight and research you will create imaginative campaigns, writing and implementing effective communications strategies. You should be ready to work with our in house design team and our digital communications officers on the production and editing of printed and digital products, from leaflets to video. Along with the rest of the communications team, you’ll be part of our out-of-hours and social media response rota and help to produce the daily staff communications bulletin.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information
About You:
Highly confident, self-motivated and with a natural curiosity, you’ll have superb English language skills, a number of years’ experience in a similar role, and a track record of engaging with media outlets to secure positive coverage. You will be able to interpret complex information quickly and help make sense of it for our audiences.
Your positive approach will enable you to manage the coverage we receive, and you’ll be capable of running behavioural change campaigns and measuring outcomes. With the creative skills to create engaging and memorable social media content including copy, reels and graphics, you’ll also have some photographic and video editing skills.
Join us, and you can look forward to a package that includes a competitive salary, a high-quality pension scheme and generous annual leave plus bank holidays. And as a key member of our team, you’ll also enjoy plenty of opportunities for development and progression within our organisation.
Please apply online explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description. CV’s alone will not be considered for this role.
We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.
Application process
Please do not upload any documents, including CVs/Covering Letters or supporting statements, as these documents will not be reviewed and could result in your application not being shortlisted.
You should describe how you meet the person specification requirements for the position you are applying for in Section G of the application form.
Additional information
We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.
This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.
We do not accept speculative CVs from any source.
Please note, we will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk / spam folder as our system generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.
If you experience difficulties with the recruitment application process, please contact the recruitment team by email: [email protected]
