Press Officer

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Department for Work and Pensions Full time

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

- 320154**Salary**:

- £46,354 - £46,354**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer- Information Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DWP - Communications**Type of role**:

- Communications / Marketing
- Press Relations**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Department for Work and Pensions is recruiting for Press Officers to be part of our supportive and high-performing press team. You will be responding to breaking national stories, planning proactive press activity, and briefing ministers and senior officials on a regular basis.

The work of the DWP makes a difference to the lives of millions of people across the country - from delivering cost of living payments to low-income households and supporting people to start or return to work via our national network of Jobcentres, to improving the lives of disabled people through a new Disability Action Plan and ensuring pension savers are protected from unscrupulous scammers.

To succeed in the role, you will have strong news judgement, the ability to be able to think strategically, excellent interpersonal skills, and an aptitude for digesting complex information and explaining it in plain English.

We are a close knit, supportive press office team that collaborates closely with the digital, external affairs and campaigns teams, as well as private offices, policy and frontline colleagues.

This post will be based at Caxton House, London.

**Job description**:
**As a Press Officer you will**:

- Manage breaking stories on behalf of the Department and Ministers, providing a timely, accurate and professional service to journalists.
- Know how to use a range of media channels to reach audiences, working with campaigns colleagues and incorporating digital media into all communications plans.
- Produce high quality written work including proactive press releases and op-eds.
- Provide media handling advice to Ministers and Special Advisers on a range of reactive and proactive activity.
- Contribute creative ideas to communicate and promote the department’s policies.

**Please Note**:

- ** Out of hours working is a key feature of this role and you will be included on a duty rota for weekday evenings and weekend service. There is an additional allowance paid for this.**

**Person specification**:

- Good judgement and understanding of how the news cycle works, including knowledge of different media channels, including digital.
- Excellent writing skills and experience of planning and working on stories and media opportunities that support communication objectives.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and reacting quickly and confidently to breaking issues.
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, and experience of nurturing excellent relationships with internal colleagues and external contacts as part of your work.
- Comfortable working on visits and events.

We will ensure that you are fully supported and have the opportunity to develop your career as a skilled communications professional.

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

- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace

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

- Insight
- Ideas
- Implementations
- Impact

**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%
- 23 days annual leave allowance in year one. This may vary for existing civil servants based on their number of years’ service

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.2. **Interview**

A ‘blended’ interview lasting around 45 minutes to 1 hour will test a mix of behaviours, technical skills and strengths:

- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace

b. For this professional communications role, you’ll also be tested against the following **Government Communications Service (GCS) technical skills** **at IO level**
- Insight
- Ideas
- Implementation
- Impact

c. You’ll also be assessed against 2 **Civil Service Strengths** **relevant to the role. These aren’t defined by grade.

**Sift and Interview Dates**:
Shortlisting will take place week commencing **w/c 20/11/2023.**

Interviews will commence week commencing **08/01/2024**

Interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams. Further details will be provided if you are successful and shortlisted.

**Further Information**

**Find out more about** **Working for DWP**

A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months

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