Communications Officer

**Starting Salary**: £37,638 to £43,659
**Job Grade**: Level 4, Zone 1
**Work Location**: Combination of office (Tottenham Hale) and home, with occasional visits to sites across north London, as required.
**Hours per week**: 36
**Contract Type**: Permanent, Full time
**Closing date**:The deadline for this role has been extended due to technical problems. The closing date is now Sunday 13th March at 23:59.
**Interviews to be held**: TBC
**Alternative flexible working options available/open to discussion**
Employed by London Borough of Camden, the Communications Officer will be based in North London Waste Authority (NLWA), serving Camden and six other north London boroughs.
North London Waste Authority’s (NLWA) mission is to preserve resources and the environment for future generations. As a Communications Officer, you’ll be part of our delivery team working across seven north London boroughs to reduce waste and promote resource efficiency; making a difference to over 2 million people.
**The role**
This role sits within NLWA’s Communications team, reporting to the Communications Manager, and delivering Comms activity across the organisation. This means working closely with officers working in the seven north London boroughs to promote services, as well as planning and delivering behaviour change campaigns as part of NLWA’s Residual Waste Reduction Plan.
You will be required to plan and deliver creative and innovative campaigns, develop key messages for use across all activities, assess PR risk, prepare proactive and reactive media lines, and coordinate all communications and marketing channels including publications, social media, website and online community discussion forums.
This is an exciting opportunity for a talented and enthusiastic individual to work on a wide range of communications activities and to be part of a small strategic communications team.

**About You**
You will have experience of organising a high volume, varied workload without day-to-day supervision, along with an excellent understanding of the diverse range of communications tools and an ability to deliver targeted campaigns within tight deadlines and to budget.
You will have around two years’ experience in a similar role and experience and knowledge of the full range of communications techniques including: experience of identifying the right media to use for specific messages, and managing the full range of communications channels.
**About NLWA**
North London Waste Authority serves 2 million residents in the boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington and Waltham Forest. We manage about a quarter of all the rubbish and recycling in London and run programmes to help residents and businesses reduce their waste and recycle more.
Our mission is to preserve resources and the environment for future generations and make sure that waste is disposed of in an environmentally responsible way.
**About Camden**
The post-holder will work for NLWA and be based at NLWA’s office in Tottenham Hale but be employed by London Borough of Camden through whom NLWA staff are employed.
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At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits as well as joining a flexible working employer. Click HERE to see full details of our benefits.
**Additional information**
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