Communications Officer

Salary: £25.98 per hour

Communications Officer

£25.98 per hour PAYE / £27.49 per hour Umbrella PAYE

To devise and implement fully integrated communications strategies and solutions to support service delivery, manage reputation, change behaviour and promote resident engagement. To lead communications strategy and delivery for allocated service portfolios.

To manage the reputation of the Council through effective media relations, social media and stakeholder management.

To develop, lead, implement and evaluate integrated communications and behaviour change campaigns, to promote Hackney Council’s services, policies and objectives

To answer media enquiries that come into the Council in a timely fashion and to effectively use the media to promote Hackney Council’s services, policies and objectives

To uphold and promote the reputation of Hackney Council in traditional and digital media

To work with senior officers and councillors on public affairs and lobbying campaigns

To contribute to the communications teams’ income generation targets

To contribute to all Hackney Council’s main communications channels including Hackney

Today, social digital media and the Council website

To support the delivery of consultations within designated portfolio areas

To provide advice to senior officers, members, colleagues and external partners on a range of communications issues

To act as the Council’s lead liaison with stakeholders’ communications teams

Hackney is one of the UK’s highest performing local authorities, serving one of London’s best places to live and work. We have achieved a huge amount: our services, our schools, our public spaces are all amongst the very best. We have changed the reputation, not just of the Council, but of Hackney itself. Bringing jobs and investment into the borough, securing the legacy from the 2012 Games, and making this a place of which we can all be proud.

We are also working towards our vision, which is to be a place for everyone; where residents and the workforce can be proud; a place that celebrates diversity and where everyone can feel valued, included and involved. In order to achieve this, we look for people who are: Proud; Ambitious; Pioneering; Open; Proactive; Inclusive.

Hackney Council works to eradicate discrimination on the basis of race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, age and marital status. We also recognise that people can be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will also work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class. We also welcome those interested in flexible working. We particularly welcome applications from disabled people, as this group is currently under represented in our workforce.

Comms officer portfolio, including but not exclusively:

• Community safety and domestic violence

• Policy and the voluntary sector

• Customer Services