Marketing and Communications Officer
| Posting date: | 27 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £36,000 to £39,494 per year |
| Additional salary information: | GPA is also committed to recognising and rewarding where our staff hold the “Gold Standard’ accreditation relevant to their Specialism and offer a £5000 non-pensionable allowance to staff who have achieved this. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 September 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 422007/1 |
Summary
Representing the best covenant in the UK – His Majesty’s Government – we are leading significant transformational programmes such as the Government Hubs Programme, Whitehall Campus Programme and Net Zero Programme. We are also delivering cost-effective property services such as asset management, lifecycle replacement and workplace services.
Innovation and progress underpin our behaviours. We foster a culture of lifelong learning, where curiosity and self-improvement are encouraged. Our four core values are at the heart of everything we do. They shape our culture and guide how we work, lead and grow together:
- Striving for excellence- We always aim to deliver great results
- Empowering through respect- We insist on fair treatment for all, always
- Acting with integrity- We consistently do the right thing
- Succeeding together- We rely on each other to achieve success
The GPA is committed to representing the communities we serve by making Diversity, Equality and Inclusion part of everything we do. Our strong emphasis on EDI is not just about driving inclusion across our organisation, it is also about ensuring our services meet the needs of government departments and the civil servants who use our spaces. To ensure that we are always recruiting and retaining a diverse mix of talent, we are particularly inviting applications from candidates who are disabled, ethnically or gender diverse, and people who identify as being part of the LGBTQ+ community.
Join our dynamic and diverse team that leads with purpose, improving sustainability, nurturing social value, driving inclusivity and flexibility, and kickstarting economic growth. We are driven by purpose, and you can be part of it too: where you make a meaningful impact; where you influence; where your voice really matters; where you help to shape our future direction.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Marketing and Communications team at the Government Property Agency. The team is at the heart of ensuring that the GPA is recognised as a public sector property holding company creating great places to work for civil servants.
Working across the team to support delivery of projects and requests. The main responsibility of this post holder is to develop content for use across a range of internal communications platforms including intranet, newsletters, and internal digital channels, always ensuring the content is impactful, high-quality and consistent with the GPA’s brand. The holder will have a good understanding of video editing, preferably using Adobe products, and be able to work with the other similar role holder in the team on evaluation, data gathering and metrics.
They will need to be an excellent digital communicator with strong content creation skills and the ability to proactively support the management of the GPA’s platforms. You will need technical expertise and a good understanding of a range of communications methods and channels will be essential in this role.
The team meets face to face once a month at different GPA locations and regular attendance at your local office is expected. There may also be other ad hoc other travel required.
Key Responsibilities
- Creatively communicate the GPAs story to key audiences, raising our profile.
- Day-to-day support of internal communications channels - digital newsletters and email bulletins, the GPA intranet – producing and agreeing content plans and delivering content.
- Shared duties with other similar role holder on metrics, video production and dashboards.
- Gather metrics and evaluation from channels and strategically use keywords and hashtags successfully to drive people to our digital content.
- Produce and support high-quality, audience-focussed content for key GPA announcements for internal audience and low/no cost campaigns - making use of creative content, partnerships and existing/emerging digital channels.
- Produce engaging video content.
- Support for internal events including event admin and live event support.
- Support to drive engagement with channels.
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