Junior Communications Officer London
Job description
In the new post ofJunior Communications Officer, you’llwork on everything from major campaigns,exciting marketing projects and filming and editing compelling content for digital channels. You’ll do something different every day – working across lots of different council services and priorities.
You’ll have the opportunity to pitch your own ideas and generate your own content, and develop your communications skills and career in a fast-paced and collaborative team.
You’ll draw on and collaborate with our specialist internal, digital, creative and engagement teams to create brilliant content and ensure your work is targeted and tested with the audiences it’s designed to reach.
You’ll come with some experience of delivering excellent communications, and a desire to develop your career in a local government environment. We won’t expect you to be the finished article, and you’ll have brilliant training and development opportunities to grow. And crucially, you’ll be creative – understanding how to cut through the noise and get noticed, rather than rely on the same-old tactics.
Theaward-winningCommunications and Campaigns team is key to achieving the council’s ambitions – telling the story of its priorities,campaigning on behalf of residents and businesses, and supporting the transformation of services for the people who use them.
You'll join a refreshed team recently redesigned to reflect the council’s mission and changing priorities – with strategic communications and engagement at the heart of its work.
Closing date: Sunday 9th April 2023 at 23:59
Interviews: week commencing Monday 17th April 2023
To plan and deliver communications campaigns that support the objectives set out in the council’s Strategic Plan, particularly marketing and digital communications.
To promote council services and ways that residents can get involved in them.
To ensure that communications work is effective, data-driven, targeted and culturally competent.
To offer communications advice to colleagues, senior officers and services on allocated projects.
To individually generate content and work with others to do so, such as video filming and editing, social media and email copy, and marketing collateral.
To ensure that communications projects are planned and connected to the council’s key mission and objectives.
To support the delivery of the wider communications service’s objectives, giving advice and support to colleagues on major campaigns.
To contribute content and ideas for council printed publications and digital channels, ensuring that content is tied to council objectives and priorities.
