Senior Communications Officer

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Department for Culture, Media and Sport Full time

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

- 348364**Salary**:

- £41,055 - £49,571- £41,055 - £49,571 plus an additional communications allowance of £5,000+ benefits- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Fixed term
- Loan
- Secondment**Length of employment**:

- 2 years**Business area**:

- DCMS - Communications**Type of role**:

- Communications / Marketing**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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- LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled Senior Communications Officer in one of the most interesting, varied and fast-paced Whitehall departments.

We’re looking for an experienced, driven and creative Senior Communications Officer to join our small, friendly integrated team where you’ll get the chance to build your skills across all areas of DCMS work.

We work closely with Ministers, private offices, policy teams and special advisors to identify proactive media opportunities for Ministers and to promote the department’s work, plan media events and manage reactive media enquiries. We also work with our sectors to ensure we provide stakeholder and third-party support for specific announcements.

**Job description**:
We’re looking for an experienced, talented and creative communications professional to join our friendly and integrated team.

The DCMS Communications Directorate supports our world-class sport, arts, culture and media industries. It played an important role in helping our sectors get back on their feet after the COVID-19 pandemic. We help our sectors maximise their potential, provide British citizens with opportunities to participate in them as well as championing media freedoms that are vital to our democracy. In the last couple of years we have delivered communications for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, Women’s Euros, Platinum Jubilee, Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Lying-in-State and the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.

On top of that there are important domestic policies which we are driving forward such as unlocking more economic growth and jobs in our world-class creative industries, setting up a football regulator, ensuring the media sector is fit for the future, protecting people from gambling related harm, and investing in young people, whether that be through building youth centres or funding youth groups.

You will play an important role in shaping how the public understands and interacts with DCMS policy areas.

You will have an excellent news sense, proven experience of working in a busy communications environment and first-rate media handling and digital skills.

You will have strong leadership skills, and the ability to foster and maintain good relations with a wide range of contacts, from journalists and industry to ministers, senior policy officials and special advisers.

You will know how to get our messages out through the media, engage our audiences through digital content and develop exciting campaigns which feed into the government’s wider agenda, including the aim for our sectors to be at the heart of the country’s post-pandemic recovery.

**Person specification**:
**Essential Requirements**:

- Have significant experience in communications, PR, journalism or news.
- Have devised and delivered creative media plans, using the right channels for the target audience
- Have an excellent news sense alongside strong writing and media handling skills, with an ability to spot and deliver proactive media opportunities
- Demonstrate strong leadership and organisational skills - including influencing and advising senior colleagues and delivering at pace under competing deadlines
- Be an enthusiastic team player with a can-do attitude - offering creative solutions to problems and leading the media agenda.

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

- Leadership
- Delivering at Pace
- Communicating and Influencing

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

- Insight
- Ideas
- Implementation
- Impact

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £41,055, Department for Culture, Media and Sport contributes £11,084 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.DCMS values its staff and offers a wide range of benefits to everyone who works here. We’re committed to developing talent, and supporting colleagues to have great careers in our department. To support with that, some of the benefits we offer include:

- Flexible working arrangements and hybrid working - DCMS staff work on a flexible basis with time spent in offices, and time spent working from ho

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