StreetCare, Transport, Waste Engagement & Communication Officer

☞ South Gloucestershire Council

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Update day: 11-06-2024

Location: Yate South West

Category: Marketing / PR

Industry: Government Public Administration

Salary: £29,577 a year

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How you’ll make a difference

In this exciting role you will support StreetCare Senior Managers to take a proactive approach to engaging with residents and communicating change, which will help manage resident expectations of changes, reduce customer contact and help embed the changes.
What will you be doing?
  • You will be working in the Strategic Communications team, supporting the Streetcare, Transport and Waste teams to help develop, deliver, and evaluate communications campaigns.
  • In this role you will undertake campaign management, copywriting, support the reactive and proactive media relations, internal communications and digital content management. You will also 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, establishing and maintaining a 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, supporting external stakeholder and partner engagement activities.
  • It will be your responsibility to prepare and update detailed project plans, budgets and reports, and to undertake campaign measurement and evaluation, against agreed communications objectives and strategy.

What we need from you

  • You must have proven experience in communications, PR 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 must be able to 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 will be experienced at reputation management, raising the profile and awareness of an organisation and its objectives.

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different

  • We trust our team to work in the way which allows them to make the biggest difference and we continue to invest in technology to help staff do their jobs to the best of their ability andcelebrate innovation.
  • We invest in the careers of our people and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps our people make the greatest long-term difference in their work.
  • We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
  • We’re building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
  • We’re planning for the future; building and improving the roads, railways, schools, green spaces, and houses.
  • We’re providing essential services across our communities to ensure they are safe and well maintained.
We’ve achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We’re making a difference, be part of it!
This is a limited term contract until 31st March 2023.
Interviews will be held on 28th July 2021.
For further information, please contact Kate Batchelor (kate.batchelor@southglos.gov.uk or 01454 866102).

Salary From:
£29,577
Salary To:
£32,234
Hours per week:
37
Vacancy type:
LTC
Location:
Yate
Team:
Communications
Advertising End Date:
25 Jul 2021
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Deadline: 26-07-2024

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