Senior Officer

6 months ago

Bristol, United Kingdom Office for Students Full time

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

- 339529**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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- Stoke Gifford Filton Abbey Wood BRISTOLAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Senior Officer - Communications

**Bristol**

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

**About us**

The Office for Students (OfS) is the statutory regulator for higher education in England. Our aim is to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers. We do this by regulating the higher education providers on our register to make sure they are delivering high quality courses and positive outcomes for their students; where they are not, we take action.

**Job description**:
**Purpose of the job**

This is a varied role to plan and deliver high quality communications content to support the objectives and regulatory aims of OfS. Key responsibilities include: drafting and writing media content including press releases and opinion pieces to help support and advance our regulatory aims and activities; responding to complex media enquiries; verbal and written briefing of OfS spokespeople ahead of media interviews; recommending and implementing media and social 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 for the OfS website and intranet; assisting in the delivery of strategic communications.

**Person specification**:
**Key person attributes**
- Excellent writing skills and the ability to write journalistic prose
- Strong news sense
- Ability to describe complex concepts to a general audience
- Excellent influencing skills - both externally (to journalists and other OfS stakeholders) and internally (to OfS colleagues)
- Good and up to date understanding - or ability to quickly acquire one - of national and trade higher education media
- Ability to provide advice and guidance to OfS directors, and the head of media
- Good all round communications skills including a demonstrable ability to plan and deliver communications campaigns
- Ability to work quickly and under pressure of a range of different projects.

**Responsibilities**

**Core tasks**
- Press releases, articles, letters and other media content are drafted as required to tight deadlines
- High profile and complex queries from the media are accurately and speedily handled, using judgement and autonomy as appropriate
- Specifically, the postholder uses their judgement and skills in order to produce effective press releases and other associated media materials for the production of official statistics where they will often be the only member of the directorate with pre-release access
- Press conferences and media briefings are organised
- OfS leaders are effectively briefed and accompanied to media interviews - in London and other locations within England as required
- Effective and well evaluated communications campaigns are planned and executed in collaboration with colleagues across the external relations directorate
- Contribution to crisis communications are delivered as necessary.
- Strategic communications for specific OfS projects and campaigns are supported.
- Content for all OfS channels is effectively planned and well written
- The public affairs team is supported, including through the successful holding of OfS events and effective engagement with key OfS stakeholders.

**Strategic input to media team**
- A calendar of content is developed with the Head of Media to suggest and develop ideas to help the OfS to meet its strategic aims
- Proactive and reactive approaches to media relations are recommended using in-depth knowledge and understanding of education and specifically higher education media
- Lines to take on various issues are developed and updated
- We are able to effectively evaluate and report on the impact of our work - explaining to colleagues in the OfS and beyond how our work helps drive change which contributes meaningfully to the successful delivery of the OfS’ strategic aims.

**Internal Stakeholder management**
- Strong working relationships with key internal stakeholders across directorates are developed and maintained through effective communication and the formation of good working relationships to ensure that communications are meeting regulatory objectives and accessible to all audiences.
- Excellent relationships are developed with the OfS chief executive and directors, and your advice as a media and communications expert is valued and trusted.

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