Communications Officer (Media) RBKC606597

Job Summary:

Salary range: £39,615 - £47,736 per annum
Work location: London
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 19th February 2023
Interview date: Week commencing 27th February 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.