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Chief Campaign Officer

Posting date:	29 October 2025
Salary:	£56,214 to £68,201 per year
Additional salary information:	Leeds: £56,214 - £64,350 London £60,445 - £68,201
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	09 November 2025
Location:	Leeds
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Temporary
Job reference:	434785/1

Summary

In the Department of Health and Social Care, we are proud of our purpose – to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you would like to work in, we would love to hear from you.

The campaign team is the engine of the communications team, responsible for overseeing the strategy behind No10 and the Secretary of State priority campaign areas, developing and leading creative and innovative communications strategies through a range of channels, putting our audiences at the heart of everything we do.

The Department of Health and Social Care communications team is an award-winning operation, recognised for its work on communication strategies, evaluation, insight, and partnership working.

Cutting waiting lists and getting patients faster, more convenient care is key to the Government’s Plan for Change and means our department is always at the forefront of the news and No10’s agenda. If you want to be part of the team shaping this debate, we want to hear from you.

We are looking for an experienced, forward-thinking and creative Chief Campaigns Officer to join the team and provide leadership and direction as we communicate some of the most important issues of the day.

You will be responsible for shaping the communication strategies behind key departmental priorities and working with lead officials to identify opportunities and milestones, using insight and evaluation to ensure we’re speaking to our key audiences. You will create and oversee delivery of multi-channel communications plans for targeting priority, multi-ethnic and regional audiences and hold teams to account to ensure we are delivering ambitious national announcements alongside targeted regional, creative consumer and non-traditional media, and innovative digital content.

This is an “account manager” type role similar to in a creative agency, and the role-holder will be expected to oversee delivery across all comms disciplines and support colleagues to delivery truly targeted and creative campaigns.

This includes developing and evaluating project delivery plans covering stakeholder engagement, activating partners from within and outside government, direct and low-cost/no-cost communications, paid-for marketing and media and social media; overseeing the production of materials and briefing products, commissioning expertise from within the Communications Directorate; building relationships with the key third parties and liaising with the business.

You will be supported to develop your career as you work towards becoming a future leader as part of a friendly, welcoming team where learning, development and wellbeing are integral parts of the offer.

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