Communications Officer/admin

**What's involved with this role**:
**Temporary Communications Officer/Admin - Marketing/PR**

**Job Ref: Cheshire E 5255157**

**Pay Rate: £17.12 per hour PAYE**

**Hours per week: 37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours**

**Role Length: This opening assignment is for 2 months**

**City: Sandbach, Cheshire**

The purpose of the role is to plan, deliver and advise about communications campaigns that promote the priorities of CEC.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Develop and implement cost-effective, creative, audience-specific communications plans and products, that promote the Council and that support the Council’s business objectives, using a wide range of digital and traditional channels.
- Commission cost-effective, creative, audience-specific communications products from a range of internal and external providers including media relations officers, online services team and Creative Design and Print Framework suppliers.
- Set, monitor and evaluate SMART communications objectives for communications activity, including both output and outcome measures.
- Contribute to a coordinated schedule of communications activity for Cheshire East Council.
- Contribute to a comprehensive body of marketing and communications intelligence to inform and support delivery of the Council’s communications objectives.
- Build an influential network of internal and external contacts as an enabling resource to support delivery of the Council’s communications objectives.
- Advise, influence and challenge colleagues and service delivery partners at all levels on their communications objectives and requirements.
- Maintain up-to-date skills and knowledge of communications tools and technology and use them to maximise effectiveness of communications activity.

**Qualifications**:

- Degree or equivalent qualification / experience in a communications discipline.
- RSA2 typing speed qualification or an equivalent level of experience.

**Skills & Experience**:

- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
- Professional experience in a marketing or PR communications role.
- Excellent understanding of marketing / PR communications theories and concepts.
- Excellent copywriting for a range of audiences and channels including media releases.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
- Demonstrable understanding of reputation management in a local government setting.
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite, Mosaic).

**Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.**

**To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF.**

**If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.**

**S** **Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please