Total 11 pr media communications job vacancies in edinburgh eh14 1tq

Grade UE07: £40,247 to £47,874 per annum
School of GeoSciences / CSE
Full time: 35 hours per week
Open ended: permanent

The Opportunity:

The School of GeoSciences is seeking a Communications Manager to join the Marketing, Recruitment and Communications team. This is a leading role within the School for the promotion of our research expertise and related activities to external audiences.

The role offers breadth, both in the discipline of the School, with research areas spanning the social sciences, humanities, and sciences, but also in the variety of projects.

The post holder will have responsibility for the design and implementation of the School’s research communications strategy, as well as supporting communications associated with knowledge exchange, impact and the School’s work with external organisations. As the key communications contact, the post holder will proactively engage with, advise and support both internal and external stakeholders.

This post is full-time (35 hours per week), however, we are open to considering part-time or flexible working patterns. We are also open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.

Informal enquiries may be directed to Grace Sansom, Head of Marketing, Recruitment and Communications (grace.sansom@ed.ac.uk).

Your skills and attributes for success:

The ability to communicate complex technical issues for non-specialist audiences across a range of media types
Experience of developing digital communications, and assessing and reporting on the impact of activity
Excellent interpersonal and networking skills, developing and maintaining effective working relationships with, and gain trust of, colleagues
Strong verbal communication and presentation skills, with a range of audiences
Background in communications at a strategic and operational level
Effective project management skills
To support your application, please provide a CV and cover letter.

Grade UE07: £40,247 to 47,874 per annum
Information Services Group – Learning, Teaching and Web     
Full time: 35 hours per week
Open ended: Permanent
 

Are you interested in media and learning? Are you eager to realise the opportunities this technology can generate? Read on…

The Opportunity:

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about technology and customer service to join our small, friendly Media Team as a Service Manager (Media Services). This exciting role will enable someone to push boundaries and gain experience in an exciting and inspiring environment.

The successful candidate will manage our Lecture Recording service, taking the lead in discovering how we use video solutions to improve learning and teaching in one of the country’s top universities. This is a great opportunity for either an experienced Service Manager or an individual with a background in technology looking to grow and develop within the role.

The role offers a salary of £40,247 – 47,874 pa and has a hybrid-working pattern, involving working on-campus in Edinburgh at least two days a week. Working hours are ideally 35hrs per week, but the team are committed to offering flexibility so we would be happy to consider options like compressed hours or staggered start/finish times.

What you’d be doing on the job:

Working with multidisciplinary teams to determine how we improve our media services
Ensuring content is accessible, providing effective technical support and communicating with users across a large, diverse organisation.
Providing operational service management, training, support, and advice on using media services across the University.
Managing supplier relationships and managing business-critical services.
Managing an essential service which is crucial to providing accessible and inclusive learning to our students.
A bit about you:

Highly developed written and verbal communication skills
Good interpersonal and people management skills
A strong, demonstrable interest in new developments in AI technology
Good analytical and problem-solving skills
Confident in your ability to learn and become proficient with new IT systems and processes

Location: Edinburgh – Hybrid Working

Salary: £37,945 - £40,896 per annum (dependant on experience)

Full time (37.5 Hours p/w) – Permanent

If you are looking for a rewarding career and to work within an epic team that will help you grow and thrive, then you have come to the right place. Working with Penumbra, you can start your day knowing what you do really does make a difference!

Penumbra Mental Health is one of Scotland’s leading mental health charities, providing innovative services and support to improve the lives of people experiencing mental health challenges. Our work is grounded in a rights-based approach, empowering individuals on their recovery journey. As we continue to grow and increase our impact, we are seeking an experienced and passionate Communications Manager to lead our communications efforts, enhance our visibility, and ensure our message reaches the individuals and communities that need us most.

The Communications Manager will be responsible for developing and delivering a comprehensive communications strategy that promotes Penumbra’s services, raises awareness of mental health issues, and supports our advocacy and fundraising goals. You will manage both internal communications and external engagement, ensuring a unified and compelling voice across all platforms and with key stakeholders. Working closely with the Senior Management Group you will lead on media relations, digital content, campaign management, and brand stewardship, while overseeing a small team of communications colleagues.

As a mental health charity, we really value the wellbeing of our staff. That’s why we want you to know that you’ll be joining a friendly team, who will give you a supportive environment to help you thrive in your role, including all the training you need to feel confident and equipped.

We can offer you a tonne of employee benefits, and we can promise you’ll be inspired by some pretty amazing humans every single day. We will support you on your own career path; developing new skills, accessing formal and informal learning experiences and providing opportunities to put your continual progress into practice.

For more information, including full job description and application/interview guidance, please download our recruitment pack.

We cannot consider CV’s – all applications should go through the application process on our website. Only applications completed through our website will be considered. If you are unable to complete an online application, please contact us at recruitment@penumbra.org.uk and we can arrange for a paper copy to be sent out to you.

Please note that unfortunately we cannot offer visa sponsorship. We can only accept applications from applicants who currently have the legal right to work in the UK, or applicants who have already have an application in progress to obtain the legal right to work in the UK.

Updates and responses to applications will come from our recruitment system. These emails may go into your spam inbox so please check frequently for any updates on your application. To avoid this happening please add “Penumbra Careers” – recruitment@penumbra.org.uk to your contact list. You can also check the status of your application by logging into the careers portal. If you have not had any update on your application, please contact us at recruitment@penumbra.org.uk.

Penumbra is committed to supporting candidates with disabilities, neurodiverse candidates, and candidates with mental health conditions throughout the recruitment process. We will make any reasonable adjustments required to ensure a fair and inclusive process for all. If you think you require reasonable adjustments, please don’t hesitate to contact us at recruitment@penumbra.org.uk.

We are looking for a Social Media Customer Service Advisor to join Team OB in our Support Office. This is a full time role working Sunday – Thursday.

As a Social Media Customer Service Advisor you will deliver a great customer experience and be the first on hand to answer and listen to any questions, queries, compliments or concerns.

Our customers are at the heart of Oliver Bonas so you will support and communicate effectively by following our customer service procedures and guidelines, providing exceptional service and owning any queries from beginning to end. Working towards targets and deadlines should come naturally whilst working across multiple customer channels. As part of this role, you will monitor our social media channels and engage with our customers on these platforms along with email, phones and live chat.

Our Support Office is based in Tolworth, near Chessington, only a 30-minute journey from London Waterloo. We offer hybrid working with a split of 3 days in the office and 2 days home working per week and are open to having conversations about working flexibly.

More about the role …

An OB Social Media Customer Service Advisor will:

• Answer customer conversations (Omnichannel environment) in a timely manner and in line with our OB tone of voice.
• Be confident communicating on the phone and online through live chat and email.
• Support aspects of the customer experience from product queries and store opening hours to delivery, tracking and customer aftercare.
• Provide exceptional customer service and admin support.
• Build strong working relationships with internal teams.
• Process customer returns, replacements and refunds through our in-house systems.
• Log and track all customer contact through our CRM system and update order statuses.
• Use internal systems to check product stock levels online and in store and where necessary.
• Collaborate within the Customer Service team to provide the best outcome for our customers.
• Handle customer data in accordance with GDPR requirements.
• Demonstrate OB Core values within our team and within your work.
• Support with monitoring our social media channels and reply to our customers via comments and direct messages and encourage private conversations as needed.
• Work closely with other departments across the business to create collaborative responses on any difficult or sensitive issues that may arise.
• Support our PR and Marketing teams with any ad-hoc customer engagement and competitions.
• Confidently escalate urgent and business critical comments or posts that you may see across our social media channels.
• Be organised and efficient with an eye for detail so no comment or message is missed.

Bonas Benefits:

• Generous employee discount up to 50% off all OB products
• Free access to our 24 hour employee assistance programme with Care First – offering financial, emotional and vocational support
• Flexible holiday – 30 days (including bank holidays) – increasing to 35 days with length of service
• Annual discretionary profit related bonus scheme
• Free membership for our Westfield Health Cash Plan or Private Medical
• Free access to our onsite gym
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave

What we look for:

• Excellent knowledge and experience of using multiple online computer systems.
• Confident Social Media user with experience across all platforms including admin access.
• Experience within customer service and being able to trouble shoot and problem solve.
• Proven customer communication skills.
• A love for the OB brand and product.
• A passion for customer service.
• Ability to manage and prioritise a variety of queries.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Calm, patient, and helpful and positive nature.
• Organised with the ability to multi- task.

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Grade UE06: £32,982 to £38,205 per annum
College Medicine and Veterinary Medicine / Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies / SEBI-Livestock, the Centre for Supporting Evidence Based Interventions in Livestock
Fixed term contract - 12 months
Full-time - 35 hours per week

The Opportunity:

We are seeking a dynamic, creative and highly-organised person to fill the role of LD4D Communications and Engagement Officer. LD4D is a worldwide community of members and partners working to improve livestock data and evidence and support the transition to more sustainable and include livestock systems, particularly in low-and middle-income countries.

The opportunity

This role will support LD4D communications, member engagement and the collaboration among our international community. LD4D members and partners include policy makers, livestock industry, scientific/academic, and project implementors.

Responsibilities will include:

Support the implementation of a new member engagement strategy.
Developing communications materials and multimedia outreach campaigns to disseminate outputs from key events
Review and update content on the website to strengthen member engagement
Managing day-to-day social media and website content.
Contribute to on-campus knowledge exchange activities to showcase research
The position is based within SEBI-Livestock, the Centre for Supporting Evidence Based Interventions in Livestock, which is hosted by the Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh. SEBI-Livestock offers a collaborative, fast-paced environment with opportunities for learning, growth and the chance to contribute to addressing real-world challenges.

Your skills and attributes for success:

Excellent organisational skills and the ability to coordinate projects, determine priorities, set deadlines, and complete projects in a globally facing multi-disciplinary programme.
Excellent communication skills including strong English-language verbal and writing skills.
Experience in a relevant role with evidence of successful delivery of communications and engagement activities
Experience organising successful in-person and/or virtual events, and technical proficiency running events using Microsoft Teams and Zoom.
Experience developing multimedia communications products (e.g., graphics, videos, factsheets) and demonstrated ability to use design and editing tools

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Teacher of English and Media - fixed term until 04/04/2025
Trinity Academy

Salary: £32,217 – £48,516
Hours: 35 per week

Trinity Academy is a school at the heart of a vibrant and diverse community, with a wonderful sense of tradition and a keen eye to the future. Our commitment for every single young person is to build a culture around our values of respect, inclusion, and ambition; this for our staff as much as our pupils. At Trinity Academy we take partnership working seriously. We work very closely with our associated Primary Schools to ensure a smooth transition into Secondary School and put equal importance on supporting young people into our school as we do in preparing them for the world after school.

The successful candidate will be creative, inclusive and a team player, and will be part of a wonderful English department who have delivered excellent results for all in our school.

Salaries will be in accordance with the Scheme of Salaries and Conditions of Service for Teaching Staff in School Education.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

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Join us as a Colleague Communications Lead

• For someone with a flair for creativity and innovation, this is a valuable opportunity to join our Communications function
• You’ll be responsible for delivering high quality and engaging colleague communications across our Wealth businesses, including Coutts, Affluent and our Investment Centre of Expertise
• Joining a collaborative and influential team in a fast-moving environment, you can expect lots of variety and great visibility for you and your work

What you'll do

In this key role, you’ll be partnering with key members of the Wealth ExCo to deliver impactful communications that support our priorities and engage our people in the most effective way. As a trusted adviser, you’ll be responsible for executive messaging and visibility, making sure all communications are delivered to a high standard and with a consistent tone and style.

Your responsibilities will also include:

• Working closely with colleagues across Comms & Marketing to implement bank-wide campaigns
• Leading the production of executive briefings and strategic advice
• Developing an employee communications strategy and channel approach

The skills you'll need

We're looking for someone with a proven track record of partnering with executives and driving employee engagement. You’ll bring creative and innovative thinking to your work, collaborating with your colleagues to deliver high quality and engaging communications.

Along with this, you’ll need:

• Knowledge and understanding private banking and wealth management
• Deep expertise in internal communications management, tools and techniques
• The ability to build relationships with senior managers and executives
• Excellent communication skills, both verbally and in writing
• The ability to work to tight deadlines and manage a number of conflicting and frequently changing priorities

About Bauer Media Group

Bauer Media UK is part of the wider Bauer Media Group and is the No.1 UK Publisher and the No.1 Digital Commercial Audio broadcaster. We reach 25 million consumers across our Radio and Publishing brands such as Greatest Hits, KISS, Grazia, Today's Golfer, Absolute, TV Choice, Scala, Country Walking, Hits Radio, CAR, Magic, MCN, Jazz FM, Puzzles and many more!

Bauer Media Group has remained one of the world’s most successful media companies for nearly 150 years through our commitment to continuous innovation and consumer obsession. Founded in Hamburg in 1875 and now in our fifth generation of family ownership, our multi-national company operates in 13 countries across Europe, reaching 200 million consumers.

We are looking for an Account Manager to join our commercial team in Edinburgh for 12 month maternity cover.

You will get to work across a range of independent media agencies, being part of a passionate and experienced team with the opportunity to sell both creative solutions and airtime across our key brands. You will have the opportunity to work autonomously but will be very much part of a team.

You will be responsible for both existing and incremental business through great multi-brand and multi-platform creative solutions. You will have the ability to develop relationships at all levels across both client and agency, and communicate Bauer updates and commercial ideas effectively, while providing exceptional levels of customer service.

This role is a hybrid role, allowing work from home, client meetings and working from a Bauer office.


KEY RESPONSIBILITES

External:

- Active selling of the Bauer Media commercial proposition
- communicating Bauer’s positioning to your agency group through presentations and meetings
- Driving revenue across your agency portfolio, utilising the knowledge and abilities of the team across your patch
- Developing direct relationships with specified clients; establishing yourself as the face of Bauer Media at the client with the aim of developing a long-standing strategic relationship
- Selling creatively – pitching against other media and proactively selling through creative pitches, supported by insight and research
- Ensuring an in-depth knowledge of your agencies and their approach to business; and of your clients – their challenges, business objectives and current media selection and spend.
- Delivering the best customer service in the industry.


Internal:

- Working alongside the planners in the planning, booking and on-going administration of all radio airtime campaigns.
- Prioritising and managing workloads to maintain a high level of accurate administration across your portfolio of agencies and helping when required
- Preparing weekly forecast figures
- Following up all proposals with excellent negotiation skills to ensure that opportunities are maximised for both the agency and the Bauer portfolio.
- Driving key focus areas and sales initiatives in order to achieve and exceed set targets.
- Developing effective working relationships with the rest of the team and other internal departments to ensure clear and consistent communication.



THE PERSON

You will have:


- The ability to think laterally, be proactive, creative and provide unique solutions for clients.
- A track record and industry reputation for building strong relationships with key agency contacts.
- A strong consultative sales approach, a tenacious manner and the proven ability to close deals.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with a good telephone manner.
- Excellent presentation skills, with the ability to engage both internal and external audiences.
- A true team-player, but with the ability to work using own initiative with a sense of fun and loads of enthusiasm.
- A positive attitude, showing enthusiasm about media sales and Bauer brands.
- Effective time management skills, with great attention to detail.
- Conscientious – punctual, willing to work hard and go beyond the call of duty with a can-do attitude.



Expiry Date 28th January 2024



Package Description

Rewards packages at Bauer Media offer a range of salary sacrifice Benefits, such as our pension scheme and flexible holidays, as well as exclusive Perks like great deals and discounts for everyday life.

- 25 days holiday + bank holidays + 2 volunteer days
- Company Car
- Internal Bauer Academy – Wide range of learning opportunities to support with your Career Development
- Opportunity to buy additional holiday
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme, tech loan scheme and groups discounts for healthcare insurance
- Discounted subscriptions on Bauer publications (50%)
- Thrive initiatives – Wellbeing at Bauer
- Opportunities to contribute to our Belonging@Bauer and Sustainability initiatives
- Discounted high street vouchers

Job Description

Place

Communications Officer – Destination Marketing - fixed term for 2 years
Waverley Court

Salary: £36,312 - £42,717
Hours: 36 per week

We have an exciting opportunity for a strong marketing and communications professional to join Forever Edinburgh, the official guide to Edinburgh, who market and promote Edinburgh to raise awareness of everything the city has to offer inbound visitors and residents throughout the year.

You will report to the Destination Marketing and Contract Manager. We are seeking an individual with a passion for marketing and a love for Edinburgh, someone who thrives in a fast-paced and creative environment and wishes to contribute to promoting the city’s full range of visitor offerings to both inbound leisure visitors and residents.

This engaging role involves collaboration with a diverse range of businesses across the local and regional visitor economy, including food and drink venues, visitor attractions, accommodation providers, transport partners, media and influencers, as well as third-party suppliers.

The postholder will actively participate in all aspects of the marketing function, including campaign planning and delivery, stakeholder engagement and management, content creation and development, strategy writing and execution, and using creativity to innovate solutions for new market challenges. These activities will contribute to the marketing aspects of the 2030 Edinburgh Tourism Strategy.

In this small team, you'll play a significant role, requiring a high degree of autonomy, intuition, and initiative. The successful candidate will need to be confident in developing and delivering integrated marketing campaigns, applying thought leadership, and asking the correct questions to kickstart new marketing responses. They will be able to think strategically and make connections, ensuring that marketing and communications plans are ambitious yet realistic and achievable.

Based in the Place Directorate, the successful candidate will work closely with managers across the entire Council and local and regional tourism industry partners, developing an excellent oversight of Edinburgh’s visitor economy, the wider tourism landscape, and priorities across the organisation.

We are looking for candidates with experience in: • Dynamic Marketing Professional: Proven experience in developing and executing integrated campaigns, analysing customer insights, and developing and executing B2B and B2C marketing. • Strategic Leadership and Compliance: Navigate political environments, formulate Go-to-Market strategies, and ensure compliance with legal requirements, demonstrating effective leadership. • Creative Content and Brand Management: Expertise in crafting multimedia content, content planning and development, enforcing brand guidelines, and contributing to a consistent brand image. • Operational Efficiency: Efficiently manage projects, oversee delivery of outputs from external suppliers, and contribute to cross-service initiatives within a large, complex organisation. • Digital Proficiency and Innovation: Utilise digital tools effectively, demonstrate strong IT skills, and bring creativity to marketing approaches, responding to emerging trends.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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About Bauer Media Group

Bauer Media UK is part of the wider Bauer Media Group and is the No.1 UK Publisher and the No.1 Digital Commercial Audio broadcaster. We reach 25 million consumers across our Radio and Publishing brands such as Greatest Hits, KISS, Grazia, Today's Golfer, Absolute, TV Choice, Scala, Country Walking, Hits Radio, CAR, Magic, MCN, Jazz FM, Puzzles and many more!

Bauer Media Group has remained one of the world’s most successful media companies for nearly 150 years through our commitment to continuous innovation and consumer obsession. Founded in Hamburg in 1875 and now in our fifth generation of family ownership, our multi-national company operates in 13 countries across Europe, reaching 200 million consumers.

We are looking for an Account Manager to join our commercial team in Edinburgh for 12 month maternity cover.

You will get to work across a range of independent media agencies, being part of a passionate and experienced team with the opportunity to sell both creative solutions and airtime across our key brands. You will have the opportunity to work autonomously but will be very much part of a team.

You will be responsible for both existing and incremental business through great multi-brand and multi-platform creative solutions. You will have the ability to develop relationships at all levels across both client and agency, and communicate Bauer updates and commercial ideas effectively, while providing exceptional levels of customer service.

This role is a hybrid role, allowing work from home, client meetings and working from a Bauer office.


KEY RESPONSIBILITES

External:

- Active selling of the Bauer Media commercial proposition
- communicating Bauer’s positioning to your agency group through presentations and meetings
- Driving revenue across your agency portfolio, utilising the knowledge and abilities of the team across your patch
- Developing direct relationships with specified clients; establishing yourself as the face of Bauer Media at the client with the aim of developing a long-standing strategic relationship
- Selling creatively – pitching against other media and proactively selling through creative pitches, supported by insight and research
- Ensuring an in-depth knowledge of your agencies and their approach to business; and of your clients – their challenges, business objectives and current media selection and spend.
- Delivering the best customer service in the industry.


Internal:

- Working alongside the planners in the planning, booking and on-going administration of all radio airtime campaigns.
- Prioritising and managing workloads to maintain a high level of accurate administration across your portfolio of agencies and helping when required
- Preparing weekly forecast figures
- Following up all proposals with excellent negotiation skills to ensure that opportunities are maximised for both the agency and the Bauer portfolio.
- Driving key focus areas and sales initiatives in order to achieve and exceed set targets.
- Developing effective working relationships with the rest of the team and other internal departments to ensure clear and consistent communication.



THE PERSON

You will have:


- The ability to think laterally, be proactive, creative and provide unique solutions for clients.
- A track record and industry reputation for building strong relationships with key agency contacts.
- A strong consultative sales approach, a tenacious manner and the proven ability to close deals.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with a good telephone manner.
- Excellent presentation skills, with the ability to engage both internal and external audiences.
- A true team-player, but with the ability to work using own initiative with a sense of fun and loads of enthusiasm.
- A positive attitude, showing enthusiasm about media sales and Bauer brands.
- Effective time management skills, with great attention to detail.
- Conscientious – punctual, willing to work hard and go beyond the call of duty with a can-do attitude.



Expiry Date 28th January 2024



Package Description

Rewards packages at Bauer Media offer a range of salary sacrifice Benefits, such as our pension scheme and flexible holidays, as well as exclusive Perks like great deals and discounts for everyday life.

- 25 days holiday + bank holidays + 2 volunteer days
- Company Car
- Internal Bauer Academy – Wide range of learning opportunities to support with your Career Development
- Opportunity to buy additional holiday
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme, tech loan scheme and groups discounts for healthcare insurance
- Discounted subscriptions on Bauer publications (50%)
- Thrive initiatives – Wellbeing at Bauer
- Opportunities to contribute to our Belonging@Bauer and Sustainability initiatives
- Discounted high street vouchers

Temporary Communications Manager (6-month contract) - Grade 4

Marketing and Engagement Team, Parliament Communications Office

Secondment Applications Welcome!

Salary range: £42,000 to £50,079

Location: Hybrid working from Holyrood, Edinburgh and from home

Annual Leave: 41.5 days FTE (including public holidays)

Working Pattern: Our normal working week is 37 hours however we are happy to talk about flexible working. This is a hybrid role, working two days per week from Holyrood, and the remainder from home

Pension: Civil Service pension arrangements with an employer contribution of 27.1% of basic annual salary

Clearance Required: CTC security clearance will be processed at job offer stage

Contract Length: 6 months

Closing Date: 11:59 pm on Sunday 7 January 2024

Join us to help the people of Scotland celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament.

This is a unique opportunity to help us plan and communicate major events and activities to support our 25th anniversary.

Your role will be to develop and deliver high quality multi-platform communications advice and strategies, including paid-for activity and social media.

You’ll be an enthusiastic multi-tasker who enjoys working in a fast-moving environment. You’ll already be using a range of communications techniques to drive forward communications and engagement activities.

You’ll have experience within a similar communications role and excellent organisational and written skills. You’ll have a clear understanding of how to identify key audiences and create content that engages them. Experience in using digital platforms for corporate communications such as Facebook, X and Instagram is also essential.

In this role, you’ll be working with colleagues across the Parliament including the Events and Exhibitions Team. You’ll be working across several public-facing campaigns including the Festival of Politics.

Reporting to the Senior Communications Manager, you’ll work with other members of the team on this cross-organisation project.

We offer a great range of benefits including 41.5 days of leave (including public holidays), the opportunity to join the Civil Service pension arrangements, and family-friendly policies.

We particularly welcome applications from candidates from a Minority Ethnic background and Disabled candidates. All appointments will be made on merit. We have a values-based culture of respect and inclusion embedded in our organisation, and everyone has the ability to make a difference.

For full information about the role and to apply, please navigate to the vacancy on the Scottish Parliament website.