Communications and Engagement Officer

3 weeks ago


Cardiff, United Kingdom The National Lottery Community Fund Full time

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

- 343874**Salary**:

- £25,019 - £27,500- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Fixed term**Length of employment**:

- 12 month fixed term contract**Type of role**:

- Communications / Marketing**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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- Cardiff, NewtownAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- We are looking for a Communications and Engagement Officer to join our team at The National Lottery Community Fund in Wales. You will join our friendly team of nine, and work alongside the wider Engagement and Insight Directorate across the UK.**Job description**:
**12 month fixed term contract** **Depending on your location and preference, you will be based in either the Cardiff or Newtown office. You are welcome to be based in the office full time, or a combination of home and office working. You will occasionally need to travel within Wales to work with community groups and charities, and to other offices across the UK to work with colleagues.

You will need a broad set of skills (including planning, writing and storytelling) so that you can play an active part in our multi-disciplinary communications team, and pick up other work when required. You will be a flexible worker: comfortable using your own initiative to lead pieces of work or working collaboratively with colleagues. You will need to be well-organised and able to prioritise.

You will work with groups who have successfully applied for a grant from us, to help tell the story of how they’ve benefited from National Lottery funding to a range of audiences. You will get the chance to interview some of their inspirational staff and volunteers and hear from the people they have helped.

You will create visual and written content, adapting your style to suit press, broadcast and digital media channels. You will work with colleagues across the Fund supporting both Wales specific and UK Wide campaigns. You could be leading on creating videos and podcasts, organising photoshoots and holding events. You will be assigned work and projects to work on, and will also be expected to use your creativity and initiative to create content.

**Welsh language skills are essential. We can provide support and training to learners. Our team are predominantly Welsh speakers, so there is always plenty of opportunity to use and practise your Welsh, and work through the medium of Welsh is that’s your preference.**

**Salary**:£25,019 - £27,500, Pro rata 0.6 (3 days a week)

**Deadline to apply: Monday,** 11 March 2024

**Interview Date: Friday** 15 March 2024

**Location**:Based in Cardiff or Newtown, with flexibility to regularly work from home

**Person specification**:
**Essential criteria**
- The ability to work with a diverse range of stakeholders to find interesting stories.
- Experience of producing succinct and accurate copy and digital media content to deadline.
- Experience of developing and maintaining a network of key stakeholders.
- Able to make decisions quickly, follow internal processes and work effectively as part of a busy team.
- Experience of writing for the media, running campaigns and/or creating content for digital media.
- Ability to communicate in Welsh.

**Desirable criteria**
- Proficient in using software such as Microsoft 365 for collaborative working.
- An understanding of Wales’s voluntary and community sector.

**Equity, Diversity and Inclusion**

Communities in the UK come in all shapes and sizes. National Lottery funding is for everyone - therefore, we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and we work hard to ensure our funding reaches where it is needed.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we take a proactive approach in making reasonable adjustments, if needed, throughout the recruitment process and during employment. (This can be related to a physical and mental health condition.)

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £25,019, The National Lottery Community Fund contributes £6,755 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens i



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