Communications Officer

6 months ago

Glasgow, United Kingdom Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Full time

The post is currently based at our National Headquarters in Cambuslang but could be based at another SFRS location across Scotland. The Communications and Engagement team works on a hybrid basis both at home and in office.

The role includes gathering and providing effective communications for SFRS employees, stakeholders, partners and media. It also includes providing advice on communication matters to senior managers and creating highly planned, consistent and effective communication strategies and plans to support the delivery of the SFRS Communications Strategy both internally and externally.

The post holder will design high-impact campaigns to communicate key policies and information that support SFRS values, visions and objectives and ensure the Service’s employees are well informed before proactively engaging with partners, stakeholders and the media. The post holder will also monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of SFRS communications campaigns across all available channels.

This role is classified as politically restricted due to the range of duties and responsibilities required of the jobholder. This restriction applies to roles where the jobholder is regularly required to provide advice and guidance to any committee or sub-committee of the SFRS or to any joint committee on which the Service is represented and are able to influence the decision-making process. It also includes those jobholders who have contact with the media such as a person who, on a regular basis, speaks on behalf of the SFRS to journalists or broadcasters.

You must be educated to HND level or with equivalent experience in a corporate communication, journalism, and media or PR discipline; have experience of producing communications and engaging content through different channels and formats.

You should have awareness of media law issues, FOI, GDPR and the general media and political landscape in Scotland as well as a knowledge of the National Standards of Community Engagement; ability to work with tact, discretion and diplomacy and deal with matters of a sensitive and/or highly confidential nature; excellent written communication skills, including the ability to write and edit accurately, high quality copy and other forms of correspondence bespoke to the recipient or audience; experience of devising and implementing accurate written communication strategies in relation to ongoing or planned incidents/events or operations and also in relation to key organisational events, operations and change management;
excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including a confident manner in dealing with a wide range of people including at a senior manager level as well as stakeholders such as politicians and with media; strong IT skills and experience in digital communications such as publishing across different social media channels and content management systems; flexible, adaptable and organised approach to work, with the ability to prioritise under pressure and meet tight deadlines, exercise initiative and work independently as appropriate.

The core hours of the role are 8.45am-4.45pm Monday to Thursday and 8.45am-3.30pm on Fridays however due to the reactive nature of the role officers will be expected on occasion to workout with these core hours to ensure key deadlines are met. The post holder will be expected to provide on-call support on an agreed rota.

Post-holders are entitled to flexi-time and flexible working arrangements including hybrid working.

Full details of the role and our recruitment process can be found in the attached information pack.

Please note, this post has been determined as politically restricted, further information is available in the Recruitment Information Pack.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £36,194.00-£38,944.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Work from home

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Glasgow: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Glasgow

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