Comms and Engagement officer needed Ref 424333

Full time hours on a temporary basis £15.33ph

Remote working but expected to collect IT equipment initially from the offices in Yate

Full time hours on a temporary basis.
You will be supporting the Transport and Waste teams to help develop, deliver, and evaluate communications campaigns. In this role you’ll undertake campaign management, copywriting, support the reactive and proactive media relations, internal communications and digital content management. You will be supporting the response to media enquiries and undertaking copywriting for email newsletters, social media content and other materials, under the supervision of the Communications Manager. On a daily basis you will be liaising with other disciplines across council departments to gather information and news. You’ll be establishing and maintaining positive, proactive working relationships with internal and external customers. This will involve delivering internal staff communications materials at both corporate/organisational and individual departmental levels and supporting external stakeholder and partner engagement activities. It will be your responsibility to prepare and update detailed project plans, budgets and reports, and undertake campaign measurement and evaluation, against agreed communications objectives and strategy. What we need from you • You must have proven experience in communications, PR and/or journalism in similar roles and delivering communications campaigns. • You’ll be educated to degree level or equivalent, or able to demonstrate equivalent level of theoretical knowledge and hold or be working towards relevant professional qualification. • You can demonstrate excellent verbal and written communications skills to maintain effective working relationships at all levels and experience of working with other external stakeholders. • We require you to have sound copywriting skills, with an eye for detail, for a range of audiences and purposes and experience of event organising. • You are experienced at reputation management, raising the profile and awareness of an organisation and its objectives. Please note this role is fixed term to 31 October 2021, therefore it is recommended applicants are either available now, or are on a short notice period.

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