Senior Communications Officer

About Us

West Sussex County Council is looking for a Senior Communications Officer to help take our communications to the next level. We are looking for an experienced and highly skilled communications professional to join the county council’s Communications & Engagement Team to help promote our services to our residents, communities and businesses.

About The Job

**Salary**:£19,931 to £21,419 per annum
**Working Pattern**:Part time, 18.5 hours per week
**Contract Type**:Permanent
**Location**:County Hall, Chichester and working from home (Hybrid opportunities)
**Interview Date**: w/c 3rd November

As a Senior Communications Officer, you will be responsible for establishing and delivering a wide range of communication activities that primarily support our Place Services Directorate.

You will help shape and deliver campaigns and engagement activities across a range of channels, focusing on local and national media, digital, and social media. You will be a creative and innovative communications professional who thrives in a high-pressured environment with the backing of a supportive and developing team.

The role will include responding to media enquiries, building rapport with journalists and identifying when a topic may become of interest to the media.

To ensure effectiveness of all projects, you will ensure that all communications activity is planned, monitored and evaluated.

The job will involve extensive relationship building across the organisation and with a variety of internal and external teams, partners and stakeholders.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for someone who can hit the ground running, with a hands-on and can-do attitude to your work.

Offering a mix of office and remote working, you will need to be able to manage your own workload, juggling competing priorities and organising your work to meet deadlines.

Working for Us

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

- an excellent **local government pension scheme**
- generous holiday entitlement (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
- a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
- maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
- volunteering opportunities
- training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
- a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our **Staff discounts page** if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
- health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list of the benefits offered to you as a West Sussex County Council employee you can find them on our **Rewards and Benefits** page.

Further Information

The reference number for this role is **CRS00984**.

Note for Recruitment Agencies: We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a supplier list for when we need a helping hand. We'll be in touch directly if we need you
- LOCATION

**Chichester area**
- CONTRACT TYPE

**Permanent**
- JOB TYPE

**HR and Learning & Development**
- CLOSING DATE

**21 October 2025