Senior Communications Officer

2 weeks ago

Bristol, United Kingdom Office for Students Full time

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

- 350417**Salary**:

- £42,001 - £44,151- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer-
**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Lime Kiln Close Stoke Gifford Filton Abbey Wood BRISTOL BS34 8SR, Sanctuary Buildings 20 Great Smith Street London SW1P 3BTAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Senior Communications Officer**

**£42,001 - £44,151 + generous Civil Service defined benefit pension**

**Bristol or London with some travel to Bristol.**

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Higher education is rarely out of the news. And as the independent regulator of higher education in England, the Office for Students (OfS) has a crucial role in ensuring student reap the life changing rewards a degree can offer. Following an internal promotion, we have an exciting vacancy for a senior communications officer.

**Job description**:
**Person specification**:
**About you**

We’re looking for someone with a passion for communications. You’ll have excellent writing skills and be able to explain complex ideas and policies to a broad audience. An ability to work quickly and accurately, and to juggle a range of priorities, is essential. You will have strong news sense, and the skills and experience to communicate confidently with journalists. You’ll need to be confident having conversations with journalists, briefing them on our work, and leading our media response to some of our highest profile pieces of work. You’ll also need to be able to advise and influence others, including key OfS stakeholders and journalists as well as your colleagues within OfS. You will be able to plan and deliver communications campaigns which have an impact.

You’ll be supported in the role working closely with colleagues in our media team, public affairs team, and with staff working on internal and strategic communications. The role is varied, with no two days the same, and you’ll need to be able to juggle a range of different projects covering a wide range of OfS’s work.

**Key responsibilities**
- Drafting and writing media content including press releases and opinion pieces to help support and advance our regulatory aims and activities
- Verbal and written briefing of OfS spokespeople ahead of media interviews
- Recommending and implementing media approaches on various projects and campaigns
- Varied work with the public affairs team including supporting OfS events
- Engagement with external stakeholders as well as with internal colleagues
- Various writing tasks including our intranet and OfS website
- The planning and delivery of internal communications campaigns.

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £42,001, Office for Students contributes £11,382 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- 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%

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**Selection process details**:
**Working for us**

The OfS regulates the higher education sector on behalf of all students. We value diversity and the wealth of perspectives, experience and ideas that it brings to our work, and we strive to embed equality of opportunity in everything we do.

**Working arrangements**

Flexibility is important to the OfS, as we recognise that it can enable people to work more effectively. A set of organisation-wide principles shape our approach to flexible and hybrid working, which our teams then use as guidance on how they deliver their business goals. This would usually mean working from the office for two to three days in a typical week.

To attract the widest possible field of qualified applicants, flexible working, for example job share and part-time working, applies to the role.

Interviews: From 20 May 2024

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 in a new window)
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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