Internal Communications Officer

3 hours ago

Colchester, United Kingdom Colchester Borough Council Full time

**Contract type**:Permanent

**Working hours**:29.6 hours per week

Do you have a passion for communications and employee engagement? Are you looking to further expand and develop your skills in a communications role while helping raise the profile of the council’s initiatives, policies and projects to the more than 800 people working across the organisation?

If the answer is yes - then this could be the role for you.

The Council is seeking an Internal Communications Officer to join its Communications and Marketing team to be an expert in developing and delivering internal communications activity for the organisation to inform, influence and engage its workforce.

We are committed improve internal communications and engagement activity to support the workforce on messages of change, wellbeing and key objectives.

We are looking for the next great addition to our dynamic communications team. Someone with creative flair and innovative ideas to deliver engaging content using a range of channels.

As the Internal Communications Officer, you will operate in an exciting environment where no two days are the same.

**Duties of the role**:
We are looking for a confident and creative team player who is able to start as soon as possible to deliver high quality internal communications to support our Transformation Programme, People Strategy and employee engagement initiatives in line with the agreed internal communications strategy.

You would also help maintain and develop the council’s intranet site, COLIN, and work with the wider communications team to provide internal communications support to other projects

**Qualifications and skills required**:
You will have knowledge and understanding of Adobe Indesign/Illustrator. It would be an advantage if you hold an understanding of photography and video production and creating strong images and videos to support the delivery of internal messages.

Working within the Communications and Marketing team, you’ll be able to work under pressure, as well as a willingness to learn and develop, will be very important.

The council has worked hard to create an open and collaborative culture that both stimulates and develops staff and encourages collaboration and innovation.

**What we offer**:
The Council encourages all employees to maximise their potential. You will be entitled to join an attractive pension scheme and will receive a generous annual leave entitlement, including two extra company holidays during the Christmas period.

Other benefits include:

- Flexible working
- Gym, travel and online retail discounts
- Excellent training, development and progression opportunities

For a copy of the job description, please click here.

Colchester City Council has a wide range of services and facilities that can involve dealing with children or vulnerable adults. We treat our obligations for the safety of children and vulnerable adults seriously and expect our staff to be committed to the principles of our published policies and to adhere to the procedures contained within them.

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