Communications Officer
| Posting date: | 24 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £34,233 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National - £34,233 London - £38,289 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 August 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 417052/2 |
Summary
Do you have experience of working within communications and/or media?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
DfT is a high-profile department at the heart of UK government. We work with agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. We plan and invest to make journeys better.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at DfT: Department for Transport Central - Department for Transport Careers
As a communications officer at the Department for Transport (DfT) you could be helping shape the national news agenda every day, creating headlines from transport policy or showcasing the latest announcements with creative and strong visuals.
No two days are the same in the communications directorate. You might be communicating our reform of the railways; highlighting the department’s work to improve bus services; or promoting transport’s key role in economic growth. Or you could be masterminding the best Ministerial visits to highlight key transport schemes, new technologies or investment.
Either way, you’ll be at the forefront of some of the biggest issues facing the country.
The communications team work closely with Private Offices, Special Advisers, policy officials and external stakeholders.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- You will play an important role in responding to media enquiries, working with policy and Ministerial teams to inform and educate the public.
- You will also work proactively on government announcements on a range of significant transport policies and campaigns.
- This will involve drawing up creative media handling and exciting Ministerial visit opportunities, planning interviews and maximising positive coverage.
- You will play an important role in a 24-hour communications team and will be part of a duty rota able to respond to enquiries out-of-hours. This includes working weekends and evenings and comes with a competitive remuneration package and opportunities for flexible working.
- When leading on Ministerial visits, you will be expected to travel domestically, sometimes at short notice, with some out-of-hours work.
- You will prepare briefing materials for Ministers in advance of a visit, sometimes conducting a recce in advance, and will maintain a close dialogue with key colleagues at all times.
- Our communications are based around campaigns and you will employ a range of skills and channels to deliver our messages. This includes working alongside strategic communication colleagues to set the direction for the department and creating social media content to tell our stories in the most effective way.
For further information on the role, please read the attached Role Profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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