Press Officer

4 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Department for Transport Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 260859**Salary**:

- £31,349- National - £31,349 London - £35,403**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DFT - Corporate Delivery Group (CDG)**Type of role**:

- Communications / Marketing**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Birmingham, Leeds, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Are you someone with experience in communications, journalism, news or PR?

Can you offer creative solutions to problems and leading the media agenda?

Do you have excellent news sense and first-rate media handling skills?

If so, we'd love to hear from you

We’re looking for confident and enthusiastic individuals to work at the heart of one of Whitehall’s most high-profile Departments.

**Job description**:
You’ll be helping to shape the news agenda every day, securing broadcast coverage across national news bulletins as well as front-page splashes on key government announcements.

Whether it be helping to co-ordinate the government’s response to industrial action across the country’s railways; reacting to travel disruption; or promoting our work to achieve net zero, getting more people walking and cycling, and encouraging the switch to electric - at the Department for Transport you will be working on some of the most important issues facing the country.

We believe that different perspectives and experiences improve the calibre of work we produce. Our press office represents a variety of backgrounds and previous careers, and those who join our team are supported every step of the way as they learn about government communications, develop their skills, and kickstart an exciting career with us.

Find out what it's like working at the Press Office at DfTC

**Person specification**:

- Have experience in communications, journalism, news or PR.
- Have excellent news sense and first-rate media handling skills.
- Demonstrate they can effectively rebut inaccurate or misleading reporting.
- Effective at spotting proactive media opportunities.
- Be able to offer high quality advice on media handling for contentious issues.
- Be an enthusiastic team player with a can-do attitude - offering creative solutions to problems and leading the media agenda.

**Responsibilities**

Key accountabilities of the role include:

- You will play an important role in responding to media enquiries, working with policy and ministerial teams to inform and educate the public.
- You will also work proactively on government announcements on a range of significant transport policies and campaigns.
- This will involve drawing up creative media handling and leading on ministerial visits and planning interviews and opportunities in a way that maximises positive coverage.
- You will play an important role in a 24-hour press office and will be part of a duty rota able to respond to enquiries out-of-hours. This includes working weekends and evenings and comes with a competitive remuneration package and opportunities for flexible working.
- All members of the Media Team are expected to take part in the out of hours duty rota, for which overtime is paid.

For an in-depth insight into the role please refer to the Role Profile.

**Additional Information**

A minimum of 40% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.

All members of the Media Team are expected to take part in the out of hours duty rota, for which overtime is paid.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Delivering at Pace
- Communicating and Influencing
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Insight
- Ideas
- Implementation
- Impact

**Benefits**:
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.

Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.**How to apply**
- Working within communications, journalism, news or PR
- Using your news sense and first-rate media handling skills to deliver a piece of work to a high standard
- Offering high quality advice on media handling for contentious issue

Your personal statement will be limited to a maximum of 750 words.

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