Marketing and Communications Officer

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Grade F. SCP 17 £30,060 - SCP 22 £32,654

Hours Per Week: 36 hours

Base Location: Tameside One

Assessment Date: To be arranged

The Role

Tameside Council is a great place to work and develop, where people can make the most of their talents and gain diverse experience.

This role is within the Council’s central Communications Team, supporting our Senior Communications Officers and promoting our wide range of services through the development and execution of public campaigns as well as responding to the daily flow of media requests and social media content.

The Service is therefore looking to appoint a practised Communications Officer with excellent communication and people skills to join the vibrant and passionate, award winning team.

About You

Skills and Experience required:

• Experience in a similar role producing media releases and conducting regular liaison with media organisations
• Ability to work under tight time pressures and produce quality content
• Familiarity with social media and web content
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent critical thinking skills and the ability to exercise good judgment and solve problems quickly and effectively

About Us

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

This position is subject to Basic Disclosure Procedures

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager Jordanna Rawlinson on 07970310034 or [email protected]