Senior Communications Officer

5 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Sanctuary Health Full time

Looking to take your career to new heights? Look no further than Sanctuary Personnel, an esteemed and award-winning recruitment agency. With a TrustPilot score of 4.8/5 and over 500+ reviews, we are dedicated to connecting with talented professionals like you. We have an exciting locum opportunity for a Senior Communications Officer with UK experience to join our team.

**Location**: Manchester

**Pay rate (Assignment rate)**: £22.11 per hour

**Contract Length**: 3-Months

**Duties**:

- Delivering the communications strategy, building and strengthening relationships with local, regional and national stakeholders and media to promote the positive image of Salford as a place to invest and do business
- Lead the strategic proactive planning and delivery of communications and PR plans, including preparing, managing and evaluating plans to meet goals and objectives, working closely with other members of the Communications Team
- Create and realise opportunities to enhance the city’s reputation with strategic stakeholders and their influencers
- Advise and support colleagues, partners and elected members with strategic communications to key audiences and stakeholders, including the digital and print media and thought leaders
- Support the development of digital audience communications based on understanding and targeting of audiences, including preparing news content for websites and e-bulletins
- Monitor traditional and all forms of digital and social media to identify stories and commentary that is relevant to in order to engage journalists and external stakeholders
- Manage media enquiries, handling them in a timely and accurate manner and ensuring appropriate approvals
- Undertake data analysis, analytics, research and evaluation in support of the council’s overall communications business priorities and communications strategies
- Support and give communications advice to the political and officer leadership, elected members, and officers on public relations and reputational management
- Develop plans and activities in line with best practice and current legislation including codes of practice and data use
- Ensure consistency in all communications to support council and place key messages, narratives and brand values to promote and uphold the reputation of the City Mayor and Salford as a place, locally, regionally and nationally
- Support the delivery of an out of office hours service, acting as lead officer in emergencies as required, including working out of office hours and at weekends when needed

**Requirements for the Senior Communications Officer role**:

- Committed to modelling and reflecting our values and behaviours
- Able to define and agree deliverable objectives, milestones and outcomes to focus on key priorities
- A high level of understanding and practice in communications planning skills - able to agree and set objectives, target audiences, define messages and develop digitally-led approaches, ensuring evaluation is delivered
- Proven communications skills and expertise with a record of accomplishment for delivering outcomes and providing enthusiasm and credible trusted advice in public relations
- Able to influence, to agree goals with colleagues and partners to develop effective collaborative approaches
- Proven ability to effective and productive relationships with internal teams, leaders, stakeholders, influencers and media
- Able to take both creative and intelligence-led approaches, looking for opportunities to advance communications and strategic plans
- Systems knowledge: Microsoft Office package skills

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