Media & Campaigns Officer

Job Title: Media & Campaigns Officer

Location: Civic Centre, High Street Uxbridge, Middlesex, London, UB8 1UW

Salary: £42,795 - £46,857 per annum

Job Type: Full time, Permanent, 36 hours per week.

Closing Date: 31st January 2024

About us:

We pride ourselves on ensuring our services improve the lives of all our residents, businesses & partners. Embarking on a journey of continuous improvement, we're committed to delivering; safer communities, a thriving local economy, and a greener more sustainable environment, while increasing our digital capabilities throughout the borough.

Putting our residents first is at the heart of everything we do, and we're keen to attract talented individuals like you, to share our aspirations, vision, and values - supporting our aims to deliver exceptional services across Hillingdon.

What does a Media & Campaigns Officer do at the Council?

The role takes responsibility for answering media enquiries, creating press releases, advising on crisis communications, writing articles for internal and external publications, and conceptualising and producing printed and digital marketing materials for awareness campaigns and projects.

With frequent contact with senior politicians, the role works closely with a variety of council service teams, whilst contributing to various high-profile stories, including issues specific to Hillingdon, such as unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, ULEZ, High Speed Rail 2 and the Heathrow expansion.

Reporting into the Media, Campaigns and Digital Manager, this role is crucial to the success of the Corporate Communications team and takes accountability for communicating externally and internally the wide range of services the council provides.

Key Responsibilities:

• Delivering a range of successful proactive campaigns
• Creating communication plans
• Producing marketing materials (print and digital)
• Building effective relationships with a wide range of internal/ external stakeholders

About you:

With a keen eye for a story, you'll have prior experience of identifying media opportunities and protecting organisational reputation, working closely with a media/ public relations team. Evidencing your skills across digital communications, writing e-newsletters, and creating engaging social media content, you'll have a strong understanding of how media works, including media liaison.

Able to demonstrate examples of writing accurate, consistent and high-quality copy, and editing, you'll have expert communication skills both written and verbal, with the ability to present information to a wide audience at various levels.

To be considered for this role, you must be able to evidence the following within your application:

• Writing high quality articles for publication
• Exposure to media liaison to protect organisational reputation
• Creating engaging social media content
• Delivering complex communication projects within a local authority or public sector environment

What we offer

We have a huge range of benefits, and whilst these are role dependant they typically include:

• Local government average salary pension scheme
• Free on-site parking
• A 36-hour week for all full-time staff
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Career breaks
• Hybrid working and flexible working hours
• Season ticket loan
• Access to a credit union
• Access to a wide range of training and courses
• Discount on a variety of adult education courses run by the council
• Payment of professional fees where these are required
• Discounts at council-owned leisure centres and swimming pools at Hillingdon (Uxbridge), Queensmead (South Ruislip), Highgrove (Ruislip) and Botwell Green (Hayes)
• Cycle purchase scheme
• Car sharing scheme
• 30% discount on green fees at council-owned golf courses

Additional information

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Applicants should be aware that the post will only be offered to successful candidates subject to an Enhanced DBS check as well as other employment clearances.

Due to an expected high volume of applications, we may close this role early, we therefore recommend you apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

If your application has been rejected for this role in the last 6 months, unfortunately we won't be able to consider you application on this occasion.

Please note the company is not able to offer sponsorship or relocation assistance for this role so candidates must already possess the right to live and work in the UK to be considered.

Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of, Digital Content Creator, Content Management, Campaign Executive, Marketing Campaign, Marketing Campaign Manager, Head of Marketing, Brand Manager, Marketing Campaign Manager, Marketing Supervisor, B2B Marketing, Senior Marketing Coordinator, Digital Marketing, Marketing Strategy Manager, Group Marketing Manager, Marketing Specialist may also be considered for this role.