The role
Communications & Project Officer (Digital and Communications)
Are you a great written and visual communicator? Do you have experience of setting up and managing effective processes for sharing information? Do you want to play a key role in joining up the strategic and operational messaging to Southwark’s schools, nurseries and colleges?
Communications & Project Officer (Digital and Communications) is responsible for internal and public-facing communications across all digital touchpoints. This is a varied role for a multi-skilled team player to communicate key message and strategy across web, apps, email, and social media. You will be involved in the briefing, execution, sign off and publishing processes for marketing communications content, as well as performing production tasks. You’ll be willing to get stuck in and work across multiple projects and channels – your passion for the school improvement and making a different to pupils in education consistently shining through.
If this is you, please apply to join our team.
You must have:
- Exceptional communication skills, with a real understanding of how different audiences receive and process messages and the best way to ensure they understand what we are trying to say
- Great people skills, to be able to get the information you need, in the way that you need it, at the right time, from a wide range of busy people who might not have you at the top of their priority list
- Excellent organisational skills: to manage a busy, ever- changing list of tasks
- A love of deadlines: meeting them and setting them
- A passion for working on challenging, meaningful, high-profile projects
In return, you will get to work for a busy, dynamic team, seeking to change the ways we support schools across the borough.
Southwark offers a generous annual leave policy, flexibility with home working, and opportunities for career development.
As an incredibly diverse London borough, we strongly encourage applications from communities representative of our residents.
This opportunity is open to internal and external candidates. We would also consider secondments.
Additional details
Please note this role is being offered on a fixed term contract basis for a duration of 12 months.
Recruitment timetable
Recruitment Timetable
Advert close: 13th August
Interview date: 25th and 26th August
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