Communications Team

About us

Are you ready to take your passion for storytelling and eye catching communications to the next level? Salford City Council is seeking a talented communications professional for an exciting and significant senior role within our communication team.

We are a dynamic city of sustained growth and strong leadership and an authority with a focus on investing in its people to deliver the best services to residents and communities. You will be supported by an energetic, creative team, backed by a can do attitude and opportunity to make your mark.

Salford’s story is a combination of continued economic growth, decisive leadership and partnership working that has transformed our city into a thriving cultural, economic and residential location. As a result, more people than ever before are choosing Salford as a place to live, work, invest and visit, and Salford is being rebuilt.

We are looking for a passionate professional to help us tell our story internally, supporting colleagues and leaders across the organisation.

About the communications service


Communications is a core function that supports the organisation as a whole, across all portfolios and directorates. Our core responsibilities are:

  • To protect and promote the Council’s reputation, integrity and identity, nationally, regionally and locally, including through proactive media management strategies

  • To design, deliver and promote campaigns that help the city and the organisation achieve its priorities

  • To design, deliver and promote communications that give residents clear information, advice and guidance, signposting to council services and promoting activities, events and opportunities

  • To provide professional communications advice to the Council’s leadership, with a view to promoting the city’s and City Council’s key priorities and values


We are strengthening our corporate communications function through additional resourcing and a new operating model. We need people to help deliver on corporate priorities and our communications strategy.

This is an exciting time to join Salford City Council. There is major regeneration work underway across the city alongside internal change, including the Adult Social Care workforce returning in house through the Unify project. There are opportunities to influence the national, regional and local government agenda.


If you have any questions about the roles available, please contact
Andrew.brunt@salford.gov.uk  

Our Vacancies:

Senior Internal Communications Officer

As Senior Internal Communications Officer at Salford City Council, you will lead the strategic approach to internal communication across the organisation, shaping how we engage, inform and connect with more than 4,500 colleagues working across desk based, frontline and essential service roles.

You will work closely with the Head of Communications, Corporate Management Team and senior leaders to provide expert internal communications advice and leadership. You will be responsible for ensuring that internal communications are clear, inclusive and aligned to the council’s priorities, values and culture, using a blend of digital channels, face to face engagement and creative storytelling.

This role plays a critical part in supporting organisational change and transformation, ensuring that colleagues understand key decisions, feel part of a shared mission and have the information they need to deliver for Salford’s residents. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of the organisation and to bring consistency, clarity and energy to internal communications across the council.

If you have any questions about this role, please contact Andrew.brunt@salford.gov.uk

Our generous benefits 

You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged, and you will have the opportunity to work and grow in a values based organisation where people are at the heart of everything we do.


As an employee, you can expect the following from us: 

  • LGPS employee contributory pension with employer contribution

  • Holiday allowance up to 34 days

  • Paid sick leave

  • Values based organisation with friendly working environment

  • Leave Plus scheme for purchasing additional leave

  • Family related or emergency leave

  • Hybrid working

We promote a positive permission culture, empowering you to make a difference. Your opinions matter to us and you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things through our Salford 100 employee group and our employee led redesign approach.

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  • People relax on the grass at an outdoor festival with a large white tent, colorful flags, and art installations.
  • A person's hands are on a laptop, with color swatches in the foreground.
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  • Two women engaged in a professional conversation at a conference table with laptops and drinks.
  • An illuminated archway spans a highway at dusk, displaying an ad for Buile Hill Mansion and a "Salford" sign. Light trails from passing cars blur the road below.
  • People relax on the grass at an outdoor festival with a large white tent, colorful flags, and art installations.
  • A person's hands are on a laptop, with color swatches in the foreground.
  • Panoramic view of MediaCityUK waterfront at dusk with illuminated buildings reflecting in the water.
  • Two women engaged in a professional conversation at a conference table with laptops and drinks.
  • An illuminated archway spans a highway at dusk, displaying an ad for Buile Hill Mansion and a "Salford" sign. Light trails from passing cars blur the road below.
  • People relax on the grass at an outdoor festival with a large white tent, colorful flags, and art installations.
  • A person's hands are on a laptop, with color swatches in the foreground.
  • Panoramic view of MediaCityUK waterfront at dusk with illuminated buildings reflecting in the water.
  • Two women engaged in a professional conversation at a conference table with laptops and drinks.