Senior Communications Officer (Children's Services Projects)

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Job Description

Temporary contract until 31st March 2025 | £41,173 to £45,442 per annum (Scale K) | 37 hours per week | County Hall

We're looking for a Senior Communications Officer to join our award-winning communications team, working at the heart of Norfolk County Council.

This role will lead the communications for our Local First Inclusion programme - Norfolk County Council's programme to transform learning for children with special educational needs and disabilities. The aim of the programme is to ensure more children can learn near to their homes and communities, by supporting inclusion in mainstream education and developing more specialist places.

We're searching for someone enthusiastic and self-motivated, with a real skill for strategic communications, stakeholder management and media relations.

If you're passionate about making positive change and have a desire to do something meaningful, this could be right role for you. Working at Norfolk County Council you'll benefit from:

• Competitive pay
• A wide range of benefits including an industry leading pension scheme
• Opportunities for career development and progression
• Flexible working
• A positive culture where we make a difference
• A commitment to our shared values of being accountable, inclusive, ambitious and trusted

This is a hybrid role with a minimum of two days per week in our Norwich office.

We want our people to be inspired and motivated to work well together, make the most of our workspaces, enjoy a healthy work-life balance, and deliver excellent services to Norfolk and its people. Flexibility is built into the way we work, with hybrid working a key feature for many roles. Our technology platform and equipment are first class, enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We ask that you have in place good Broadband connectivity.

Already a Norfolk County Council employee? See and apply for all internal and external vacancies via myOracle using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email address.

Before you apply please see the full job description and person specification in the below link - this will help you to shape your application to demonstrate how you meet the criteria for the role.

Job description and person specification

You can also find out about the rewards and benefits we offer as well as our other terms and conditions.

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement with the ability to buy and sell leave
• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working - dependent on your job role and business need.
• Financial benefits such as:
  • 'Norfolk Rewards' our employee discounts programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
  • A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
  • Relocation expenses (where applicable)
  • An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
  • Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants' pensions
  • Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes
  • Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new, ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)
  • A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job

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