Communications Officer

6 months ago

Nottingham, United Kingdom Public Sector Resourcing Full time

**Communications Officer - (Inside IR35)**

**Contract Term: 3 Months with possible extension**

**Contracting Authority: Department for Transport**

**Location: Bristol, Swansea or Nottingham - Hybrid**

Transport matters and what we do at the Department for Transport matters. Click here to find out more about working for DfT and its agencies. We are different people, one team.

**As a **Communications Officer **your main responsibilities would be**:

- Deliver informative external communications to assist the effective operation of DVSA’s services and promote the agency’s vision, priorities and policies.
- Provide a highly-responsive reactive media handling capability, as well as proactively creating and seeding stories, and developing quality ‘direct-to-consumer’ content using digital and social media.
- Ensure all communications activity is insight-driven and fully evaluated.
- Draft quality press releases, press packs, and lines to take and issue within agreed protocols. Work closely with colleagues at all levels from across the agency to gather information and obtain sign-off. Liaise with external contacts, including DfT press office and other government departments, where appropriate.
- Draft proactive and reactive social media messages for range of DVSA channels
- Respond quickly to media requests and agree points of escalation. Provide media handling advice to agency spokespeople, provide briefing and lines to take and oversee filming opportunities/interviews.
- Develop and nurture excellent relationships with journalists and contacts in all forms of media, to improve story placement and check progress. Review requests from media for DVSA involvement and collaboration in filming and programme production activity and make recommendations to Head of External Communications.

**You’ll have relevant experience in**:

- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Strong Social Media background
- The ability to write clearly and simply, using plain English
- A practical understanding of how print, broadcast and digital media work, including the media cycle, circulation and deadlines
- Has worked with LinkedIn/Twitter/Facebook or Instagram previously
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Experience of working with the media, including digital and social media
- Media Monitoring and Evaluation background
- Negotiation and persuasion skills; ability to build alliances to make a case
- The ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines
- Experience of Content Creation
- A practical understanding of emerging digital services, tools and trends, including techniques for optimising digital content
- Public Sector background
- CIPR or PRCA Certified (Desirable)

**Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.**

**If you consider yourself to have a disability or if you are a veteran, and you meet the essential criteria for the role, PSR provides a ‘Guaranteed Interview’ scheme whereby you will have the opportunity to discuss this role and your suitability with a member of our PSR Sourcing team.**

***- Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas._

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