Specialists in professional temporary recruitment
Interim Senior Communications and Content Officer x 2
Location: London
Length: 3 months initially
IR35 Status: Inside
Type: Hybrid working
On behalf of our client, we are looking to recruit two interim Senior Communications and Content Officers. One post will cover the environmental, behavioural change campaign with a particular focus on the Net-Zero approach. The other position will cover marketing the park and green spaces campaign across multiple council channels with particular focus on a health and wellbeing campaign.
The key components of the role:
- Manage multiple projects and deliver high quality, engaging content and campaigns across a range of traditional and digital channels including the corporate website, microsites, social media and print publications
- Support in developing, implementing and delivering a digital communications and engagement strategy to engage residents and other key stakeholders with the Council’s vision and priorities and support behaviour change
- Work closely with the Strategic Communications Leads, create multi-channel, content led campaigns in support of the council’s corporate and strategic priorities, ensuring that activity is appropriately targeted and positioned to engage relevant audiences and encourages behaviour change where applicable
- Ensure that activity is appropriately targeted and positioned to engage relevant audiences and encourages behaviour change where applicable
- Take the lead on planning, researching and editing all content for key campaigns, including sourcing or commissioning appropriate case studies, and creating audio/visual content
Experience and skills required:
- Demonstrable experience in a similar role within a local authority
- Experience of covering key environmental council campaigns
- Significant experience of digital communications and campaigns, including developing and managing social media in a corporate environment as a reputation management and community engagement tool
- Creating e-newsletters; creating high quality, internet-ready content
- Experience of developing and producing publications including planning editorial content, copywriting, editing, layout, design, print and distribution
If you have experience to match the requirements of the Interim roles, or if you would like more information on the role, please contact Jake Powell, Niki Holdich and Matthew Ring on
020 7557 7667 and email your CV tolocalgov@venngroup.com
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