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Internal Communications and Engagement Officer

Posted on 27 April 2023 Apply

Job introduction

Fixed term for: One year from start date

Interview date: Tues 6 and Wed 7 June

We're looking for a brilliant Internal Communications and Engagement professional to join our award-winning comms team and work in one of the best cities in the country.

Your role will be key to helping reshape and deliver our internal communications for our key strategies in relation to our workforce with a focus on developing new channels, including digital, to ensure our messages reach every member of staff.

You must be prepared to get into the heart and soul of our £1 billion organisation and understand what makes our 4,500 very varied and culturally diverse staff tick.

Interested? Call Communications Manager Brendan Murphy on 07825 862 590 for a chat.

About the role

Communications is at the centre of the council, so you'll be joining a team that’s playing a major part in helping shape the direction and vision of the organisation’s post-pandemic culture change.

You'll already have wide-ranging experience of developing and implementing high quality corporate comms campaigns and be confident and capable of working with and influencing senior staff, including our chief executive.

Our very supportive and friendly team has a fantastic mix of skills, experience and talents and covers internal and external comms, campaigns, social media, design, website and publications.

You'll need drive, energy, focus, confidence and resilience to succeed, as well as excellent writing skills, creativity and strategic thinking.

Roles in our comms team don't come up very often, so if you think you've got what it takes, are a great team player and fancy working in our amazing city beside the sea, we'd love you to apply.

Working in the Communications Team at Brighton & Hove City Council

Brighton and Hove is a fantastic place to work, play and be.

We attract more than 11 million visitors a year, deliver 450+ services every day, have 4,500 staff and are always in the news and on social media - so there's never a dull moment for the comms team.

We’re a very hardworking group of friendly and talented people who, through our individual personalities and styles, create an exciting and ambitious working environment.

Our culture is strongly based around supporting each other to develop, to learn and to achieve the full potential of the team.

We also have an open, creative and collaborative culture where all team members have a say and responsibility for how the service is shaped and evolves. We also work flexibly and mainly hybrid.

We have local elections in early May, a new interim chief executive starting soon and the city's economy is beginning to thrive again in the post-pandemic world.

These are very exciting times at the council and for the team.

If you'd like to be part of it, please read our Apply for a job at the council (brighton-hove.gov.uk) pages carefully.

They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.

As part of your application, you'll need to upload your CV and answers to some shortlisting questions.

The answers to the questions will be used to assess whether you meet the essential requirements set out in the person specification and if you should be offered an interview.

Before you start your application, please read our CV guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) and Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) which will increase your chance of being shortlisted.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

Work Permits: We may be able to obtain a Work Permit for this post but this is subject to meeting the requirements of the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) Points-based Immigration System. Please see Gov.uk for more information on the Skilled Worker Visa.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us (brighton-hove.gov.uk)

Company information

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).