Communications and Campaign officer (Public Health) (Ref: 2024_985)
Posting date: | 17 July 2024 |
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Salary: | £32,077 to £35,035 per year |
Additional salary information: | Grade 9 |
Hours: | Full time |
Closing date: | 20 July 2024 |
Location: | Newport, Isle Of Wight |
Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
Company: | Isle of Wight Council |
Job type: | Contract |
Job reference: | 2024_985 |
Summary
Hours: 37 per week
Are you passionate about engaging with people and supporting them to lead healthy lives?
Do you have experience in media relations management, social media, marketing, and communications campaigns?
Can you shape messages into engaging, inspiring content for multiple channels including a range of social media, digital and stakeholder packages? Then this role could be for you!
In this role you will lead the promotion of the council's public health activity, from supporting behaviour change to enable healthy lifestyle choices, to encouraging health protection initiative take-up. You’ll consider local, hyper-local, sometime targeted audiences with your campaigns, working with our public health team to deliver supporting communications and social media marketing activity for their broad programme of work. You will work with partners to amplify and develop campaigns, supporting engagement throughout processes. You will prepare exciting and engaging content for a variety of complimentary channels including press, targeted marketing, online content, and social media and supporting stakeholder engagement.
This role requires effective communications planning, dynamism, and a passion to succeed. You will undertake proactive communications messages and reactive media enquiries from a variety of media, including print, broadcast, and online media, while fostering effective working relationships with key media contacts. You will contribute to behaviour change campaigns on a variety of initiatives, including smoking cessation, weight management, mental health, and immunisations, using the complete marketing mix. You will also have a good understanding of plain English, events management, and engagement activities.
You will be a quick-thinking, organised, independent and motivated individual with an eye for a good story and a flair for capturing the essence of the news, while showcasing local value, as well as ability to manage sometimes large and often challenging workloads and timescales.
You will be educated to level 4 in relevant subject or have equivalent experience in communications specialist roles.
Full details of the requirements of the post can be found on the job summary.
Please read the supporting guidance when completing your application and we look forward to hearing from you.
(Interviews are currently planned to take place on the 6th and 7th of August.)
Closing Date: 29 July 2024
Interview Date: 6 and 7 August 2024
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