Communications and Campaigns Officer (Public Health)
| Posting date: | 23 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £34,435 to £37,488 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 January 2026 |
| Location: | Newport, Isle Of Wight |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 4 days per week |
| Company: | Isle of Wight Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 2025_1676 |
Summary
37 hours per week
This role is office-based; however, it also some agile or remote working
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.
For further information or an informal discussion, please contact Martin Neville martin.neville@iow.gov.uk
Join #TeamIWC and you'll receive our staff benefits package, including:
Annual leave entitlement of 32 days p/a PLUS public holidays!
Local Government pension scheme
Discounted Solent ferry travel
Island bus network discount
Cycle to work scheme
Staff parking permit scheme
Discounted island sports & leisure gym membership
National and local discounts & benefits schemes
Relocation scheme of up to £8,000 may be available for some roles (subject to criteria)
Travel allowance may be available if commuting from the mainland (subject to criteria)
This role is office-based; however, it also some agile or remote working
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.
For further information or an informal discussion, please contact Martin Neville martin.neville@iow.gov.uk
Join #TeamIWC and you'll receive our staff benefits package, including:
Annual leave entitlement of 32 days p/a PLUS public holidays!
Local Government pension scheme
Discounted Solent ferry travel
Island bus network discount
Cycle to work scheme
Staff parking permit scheme
Discounted island sports & leisure gym membership
National and local discounts & benefits schemes
Relocation scheme of up to £8,000 may be available for some roles (subject to criteria)
Travel allowance may be available if commuting from the mainland (subject to criteria)
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