Senior Media Officer

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Job Description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Hybrid worker - with at least one day in the office

Salary: £37,410 - £40,083 per annum - pro rata for part time

Working Hours: Two days (14.8 hours) a week - covering Thursday and Friday

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 15 October, 2024

Interview Date(s): 6 or 7 November, 2024

Building strong communities, transforming lives and delivering value for money - just a snapshot of our current priorities. And serving a population of 700,000, there's lots to keep you busy.

If you're a media and comms professional wanting to make a difference to our residents' lives, read on - this post might be just your cup of tea.

About the role

Based in the media and communications unit, this is a key position at the heart of a large, high-performing council - and you'll play a lead role in promoting and protecting the council's reputation.

Majoring on strong management of online, social and traditional media, you'll also help to lead a multi-disciplined comms team, developing and overseeing effective and creative external and internal campaigns.

This post is politically restricted therefore the post holder is disqualified from undertaking certain political activities under the Local Government Officers (Political Restrictions) Regulations 1990.

About you

To apply for this post, you must:

• Be educated to degree level or equivalent - or equivalent level of relevant experience
• Have an eye for a story, a strong understanding of journalism and a honed risk radar
• Able to build strong internal and external relationships - and influence effectively
• Have excellent verbal and written comms skills - and be able to create content for different channels and audiences
• Adept at designing, delivering and evaluating comms strategies and implementation plans
• Understand the role comms plays within a large, complex organisation

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in flexible working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Katie Pegg - Strategic Comms Manager

Telephone: 0116 305 6162

Email: Katie.Pegg@leics.gov.uk

How to apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on 'Apply Now'. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home.

By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.

About Us

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a Stonewall Top 100, Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.

For further information on what it's like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

Our Recruitment Process
Our Organisational Values
Our Employee Benefits
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