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Do you have experience working in media relations, public relations, or digital media? If the answer is yes, you could be a fantastic fit for our Communications Officer role.

We have two positions available, please read below about both of these great opportunities and if you wish to apply and have a particular preference with one of the roles, please state this in your covering letter.

The Opportunity

Salary: £31,586 to £34,314 per annum (£12,805 to £13,911 per annum)

Location: Your office base will be Chichester and a typical week will combine homeworking with attendance at the office. This is led by the needs of the service.

Contract and working pattern: 1 x Full time, 37 hours per week (12-month fixed term or secondment contract)

1 x Part-time, 15 hours per week (Permanent contract, days can be flexible)

Employer Pension Contribution: 19.70% this alters per annum on the 1 April each year.

Annual leave: 27 days holiday + Bank holidays = 35 days (Full time equivalent)

As a Communications Officer, you will deliver first-class communications and messages to communities across West Sussex.

Working as part of the county council's Communications & Engagement Team, you'll be working on high-profile campaigns and messaging across various channels and platforms, including social, digital and print media as well as providing media relations and handling by liaising with journalists.

Working with a supportive team, you will be involved in multiple projects simultaneously where your passion for communications, innovation and creativity, plus your eye for detail and how best to convey a compelling message will be greatly valued.

You'll be responsible for evaluating communications to showcase its impact. This will involve creating, managing, and monitoring plans, plus gathering quantifiable data through a variety of methods to track success.

You'll assist Senior Communication Officers and Communications Leads in promoting council campaigns, behavioural programmes, and projects efficiently. Understanding council services is crucial for recognising opportunities and building relationships with key staff. Training will be provided if this isn't your current area of expertise. You will need to be aware of both local and national news agendas to ensure the county council is seizing all opportunities and responding to current events.

You'll be required to participate in an out-of-hours on-call rota, for which an additional allowance is provided.

What are we looking for?

• Ability to develop creative ideas and editorial across all forms of communication and editing input for a range of platforms.
• Ability to write effectively for a range of audiences and communication channels including for the web and social media.
• Developed communication and interpersonal skills to effectively engage with clients and stakeholders, fostering strong working relationships.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Literacy and numeracy skills to understand and interpret research data and customer feedback and present analysis in the most appropriate way.
• Relevant theoretical and practical knowledge of processes, procedures and policies associated with working within a demanding communications service.
• Knowledge of communication methods, including social media, to effectively contribute to changing campaign objectives.
• Understanding of the media landscape and management of media sensitive issues.
• Understanding of the political landscape and politically sensitive issues.
• Experience of working on a variety of communications activities, particularly in a public sector environment.
• Experience/confidence of dealing with a range of people and services and planning on more than one campaign at a time.
• Experience of handling and responding to media enquiries.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this, we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans.

Further information

The reference number for this role is CRS00886.

To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

Executive Officer - Ministry of Justice

Location: Leeds (Hybrid 2-3 days in the office, the other days working from home)

Pay: £14.09

Job Type: Temporary until 1/12/2025

Sector: Public Sector

Hours: 37 hours a week

A Little Bit About Us:

Brook Street have grown into one of the UK's leading recruitment agencies − matching thousands of people with meaningful job opportunities at more than 4,500 companies every year. Delivering a quality service to suit the needs of clients and candidates alike was important to our founder Margery Hurst and it remains important to us today.

Recruitment is about so much more than just filling job vacancies. It's about giving people the chance to unleash their full potential, through their perfect new role.

About the Client:

The Ministry of Justice is a major government department, at the heart of the justice system. They work to protect and advance the principles of justice. Their vision is to deliver a world-class justice system that works for everyone in society.

About the Role:

The Synergy Programme represents a step change in how we'll deliver corporate functions across MoJ, HO, Defra and DWP, which together make up almost half of the civil service.

The programme's purpose is to enable better public services through better ways of working, supporting more than a quarter of a million officials and public servants who deliver some of the most vital and high-risk public services in our country.

Synergy's mission is to make working lives easier and help deliver crucial public services by providing systems that are smarter, faster, more intuitive, and are designed around the needs of the user.

We're transforming the way we deliver corporate services in government, simplifying the way we do things, joining up functions, and showing how deep the benefits of partnership run.

Synergy's objectives are to:
- ?simplify and operate through an optimised Shared Services Centre
- ?improve user experience
- improve data quality and reporting
- provide service continuity and foundation for service enhancements
- demonstrate value for money

This assignment within the MOJ Synergy PMO Team will be to provide administrative and project support to PMO leads and project leads and projects that will deliver the Synergy programme

This will include, but is not limited to: -

- Assist with and maintaining project plans and Plan on a Page documents to support reporting and monitoring
- Assist in developing and producing project reports and programme reports
- Responsible for project file management using robust version control.
- Organise key project meetings and provide secretariat support for board meetings and design authorities including minute taking and action management.
- Financial tracking - Assist with the monitor of project spend including raising and managing Purchase Orders through SOP.
- Assist with and maintain risk and issue logs, escalating as appropriate.
- Support maintenance of all programme resourcing data and resource dashboard.
- Manage the on boarding and off boarding process for programme resources
- Rationally manage the PMO mailbox, tracking commissions and coordinating responses to all communications.
Limited travel will be required.

If this sounds like the ideal role for you, apply now!

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As a Disability Confident Leader, and holder of the Gold Award status from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, Brook Street, as a supplier to the Public Sector Resourcing Framework (PSR), will offer you a guaranteed interview with a PSR Sourcer.

Should you identify as a candidate with a disability and/or as a veteran or spouse/partner of military personnel and meet all the essential criteria for the role, we encourage you to reach out to us via the Brook Street website. Here you will find a link to register your interest and state the role that you are interested in. We are committed to engaging with you. 

In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses/partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, Brook Street will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Brook Street is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all candidates who are veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel, and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy.

As a Disability Confident Leader, and holder of the Gold Award status from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, Brook Street, as a supplier to the Public Sector Resourcing Framework (PSR), will offer you a guaranteed interview with a PSR Sourcer.

Should you identify as a candidate with a disability and/or as a veteran or spouse/partner of military personnel and meet all the essential criteria for the role, we encourage you to reach out to us via the Brook Street website. Here you will find a link to register your interest and state the role that you are interested in. We are committed to engaging with you. 

In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses/partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, Brook Street will interview the best candidates from within that group.