Communications Business Partner

5 months ago

Exeter, United Kingdom DEVON & SOMERSET FIRE & RESCUE SERVICE Full time

**Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service **has a fantastic opportunity available for a **Communications Business Partner** to join our team in **Exeter** on a part-time (**22.2 hours per week**), Fixed Term Contract for up to 12 months**.* In return, you will receive a competitive salary of **£35745 - £38223 pro rata.*

**Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service** is the largest non-metropolitan fire and rescue service in England. We provide prevention, protection, and response services across the counties of Devon and Somerset.

Our vision is that together, we will work to end preventable fire and rescue emergencies, creating a safer world for you and your family. Keeping people safe is what we do, and we owe our fantastic reputation to our highly skilled and motivated workforce.

**About the Communications Business Partner role**

We are looking for an experienced, creative communicator to join our Communications and Engagement service.

As a Communications Business Partner, you will support the day-to-day management of all our communications, planning clear, timely messages across a range of channels, for both internal and external audiences.

You will be helping to ensure residents have the information they need to protect themselves, communicating with our 1,900 staff, and providing communications support during incidents.

You will also have a portfolio of departments you work with to identify and prioritise communication and engagement needs, and to plan and deliver a range of effective campaigns.

You will need to have a good grasp of modern communication techniques and channels and be able to build good relationships and be comfortable with providing professional communications advice and influencing at all levels of the organisation.

We are a team committed to continuous learning and are always looking at how we improve our craft to find new ways of engaging with our audiences. You will be supported to sharpen your skills and develop some new ones along the way.

Key Responsibilities

**Key responsibilities as our Communications Business Partner will include**:

- supporting clients in service areas to define priorities
- developing targeted and creative communication campaigns, using audience insight and the latest best practice from the profession, while also developing and testing new ideas
- developing engaging content in various formats, including working with internal and external designers, to support our storytelling
- horizon scanning for upcoming communications priorities, opportunities, and risks, populating a forward plan of activity, and developing the annual communications plan
- prioritising all activity and facilitate self-service within service areas for low level non-priority work
- building and maintaining strong relationships with colleagues in service areas to learn and understand their business area
- supporting, advising, influencing, and challenging colleagues on communications best practice
- working with other members of the communications and engagement team to get the best out of all our activity.

Find out more

**What we’re looking for in our Communications Business Partner**
- Ability to adapt styles and messages to suit specific target audiences.
- High level of integrity and confidentiality when handling sensitive information and data.
- Experience of evaluating communications activity and presenting findings to others within an organisation.
- Experience of working within a communications role.
- Experience of developing communications activity across a number of channels.
- Experience dealing with the media for both proactive and reactive communications.
- Knowledge of the wider communications discipline, including media relations and social media.
- An understanding of how the public sector works, the political nature of the organisation and how these relate to communications.
- Knowledge of the law with regards to communications, such as the Data Protection Act, Freedom of Information act and media law.
- Knowledge of quantitative and qualitative evaluation measures.

If you feel have the skills and experience to become our **Communications Business Partner** please click ‘apply’ today, we’d love to hear from you.
- Ability to advise, influence and persuade at all levels of the organisation.
- Excellent at creating clear and compelling communications for different audiences.
- Ability to manage competing priorities.
- Experience of evaluating communications activity and presenting findings to others within an organisation
- Experience of working within a communications role
- Experience of developing communications activity across a number of channels.
- Understanding of equality diversity and inclusion and how this applies to communications.

**Core values**

As a Service and as individuals:

- we are proud to help
- we are honest
- we are respectful
- we are working together.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12

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