Senior Communications Officer
| Posting date: | 02 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | £41,600 to £48,792 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £41,600 min - £44,512 max. London: £45,600 min - £48,792 max. Successful candidates will be given a Recruitment and Retention Allowance (RRA) of £3,800, which will be added to the base salary. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 August 2024 |
| Location: | Sheffield |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 363129/4 |
Summary
As a member of the Communications Directorate, you will be supporting our mission to deliver outstanding public services that work for everyone.
You will join a multi-disciplinary team with colleagues based across the UK, working together to deliver the Home Office’s communications strategy.
We believe a positive, open and supportive culture is essential to help everyone deliver their best work. We value diversity and provide an inclusive and encouraging environment for our team members. We nurture our talent and offer a broad range of learning and development opportunities to help you fulfil your potential.
Working as part of a dynamic, collaborative and friendly team, the successful candidates will deliver communications on a broad range of policy and operational areas spanning the Home Office.
The roles available cover media / press office. However, there may also be opportunities to deliver strategic communications, including paid-for, and no/low-cost campaign activity.
You will help to lead a team responding to calls from journalists, and shaping the news as it happens and though developing proactive announcements. You will be responsible for real-time media and social media monitoring and rebuttal, developing media handling strategies, identifying proactive opportunities and selling-in-stories.
You will also be responsible for providing swift and sound handling advice to Ministers and senior leaders; identifying inaccuracies or criticism, ensuring they are appropriately addressed; and ensuring the Home Office position is clearly reflected.
Important Information
- Due to the nature of the work, these roles are available on a full-time basis only.
- Successful candidates will be included in the out-of-office duty system, for which there is overtime pay.
- In line with the Home Office’s hybrid working policy. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees are expected that team members spend a minimum of 60% of their hours in the workplace, with the remainder working from home.
- This post can be based at offices in any of the locations listed but for some of the roles, significant travel will be involved, with frequent work within operational environments.
- You will have responsibility for leading an effective team.