Senior Communications Officer

at  Gloucestershire County Council

SENIOR COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER

Date: 20 Mar 2024
Job Location:Gloucester

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title: Senior Communications Officer
• Job Location: 92-96 Westgate Street
• Salary: £34,834 - £38,223 per annum (pro rata)
• Hours per Week: 22.20
• Contract Type: Fixed Term
• Duration: One year
• Closing Date: 10/04/2024
• Job Requisition Number: 8309
• This post is not open to job share

ABOUT US

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• 24.5 days annual leave rising to 29.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• An option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
• Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family
• Career development and qualification opportunities
• Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• An in-house Occupational Health service
• Employee discount scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&Cs apply)
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network.

Come gain valuable experience in this rewarding role in our talented and dedicated communications team. Our team ensures that messages get out to our communities using a variety of different channels. This could be working with the press, creating engaging online and social media content or writing targeted newsletters. The messages aren’t always easy to get across and we need to advise senior leaders on the best approaches using effective communication strategies that will land with our target audiences.
By getting messaging right you’ll help make a real difference to communities by ensuring they’re well informed about all sorts of different projects and services. You’ll also get the opportunity to work on messages for internal colleagues on changes within the organisation or celebrating their successes.