Senior Campaigns Officer

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Full time

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

- 275864**Salary**:

- £37,064- £37,064 (National) £40,390 (London)**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Communications**Type of role**:

- Communications / Marketing**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- London, WolverhamptonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
We are looking for an enthusiastic communicator with experience of campaigns to join us.

DLUHC’s role is to make sure that through levelling up, everyone has the same opportunity to flourish. It means people everywhere living longer and more fulfilling lives and benefitting from sustained rises in living standards and wellbeing. Improving prospects for businesses and strengthening local transport are equally important in developing stronger communities.

We seek a talented communicator to join our team in telling the story of how the Government plans to support communities across the country in achieving this goal, supporting implementation of Levelling Up projects by increasing community engagement and attracting investment.

**Job description**:
**Key responsibilities**:

- Supporting the Head of Strategic Communications to deliver a series of campaigns that are both impactful and cost effective.
- Work on the development, planning, coordination and delivery of the campaign, particularly at a local level (where appropriate) working with local partners and council.
- Liaising and navigating work across other Government departments and local delivery partners. ensuring plans are aligned to wider UK Government objectives and are attuned to political nuances.
- Building relationships with senior policy stakeholders and external agencies to understand how strategic communications can best support them, and implement these improvements to optimise the campaign.
- Driving no-cost ground activity through compelling and innovative content and local partnerships.

**Person specification**:
**Essential skills and experience**:
1. Good experience in a strategic communications and/or campaigns role. This includes planning communications from strategic development and thinking through to delivery.

2. Have used multiple communications channels, including low cost and digital.

3. Have strong communication and negotiation skills having worked with senior leaders to understand businesses requirements and an ability to develop trusted and authoritative two-way relationships.

4. Good analytical skills with experience of behaviour change campaigns. You will be able to draw conclusions from data and be able to simplify complex policy into clear communications that drives action.

6. Have a solid grasp of how to evaluate the success of communications.

7. Good written and verbal briefing skills with effective personal impact and confidence in giving verbal briefing.

8. Good project management and organisation skills.

9. An understanding of mitigating reputation risk when planning communications activity.

**Desired skills and experience (but not essential)**:
1. Public sector experience, either in local or central government

2. Strong understanding of political/news landscape - can advise on risks and reputational issues and demonstrate political awareness

3. Experience of running a communications team including training and development of that team or upskilling colleagues

4. Stakeholder management experience related to campaigns that have a low cost/ no cost element

5. Experience of briefing senior officials

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

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

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours.**We are for everyone**

**We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.**

We are for everyone

DLUHC want to bring in a diverse workforce at all levels.

Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that each of your answers would be viewed by different assessors.
- The assessor won’t be reading your answers sequentially.
- Do not assume that the same assessors will have read all of your answers.
- If talking about something in your first answer, make sure that you write the second answer as if you had not written the first (and so on)

**At sift, we will be assessing**

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