Senior Communications Officer - Regeneration & Growth - fixed term, 2 years

We Are St Helens Borough Council.

Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.

Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.

Making A Difference as A Senior Communications Officer in the Policy & Transformation Department.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Communications Officer to join our fast-paced communications teams. The ideal candidate will bring new experience, skills and ideas into the team.

The salary for this post will be £38,626 - £41,511 per annum. The position is fixed term for a period of two years. Your hours of work will be 37 per week.

We are a small team delivering communications, marketing, PR and engagement for St Helens Council. Size doesn’t limit our ability to make St Helens a better place through great content, understanding our audiences and developing our channels.

This is a new post dedicated to developing and delivering our communication approach within a regeneration and growth environment. As the Senior Regeneration Communications Officer, you will play a key role in enhancing the reputation of the council and the borough; showcasing St Helens as a great place to live, work and invest.

St Helens has a number of large, key, regeneration programmes that will totally transform the borough and offer exciting developments for employment and training opportunities as well as raising aspirations. You will support the effective promotion and successful delivery of the council’s regeneration programmes through first-class integrated communication campaigns. You will deliver communications that ensure residents, stakeholders, staff as well as current or potential investors are effectively communicated to, engaged, and motivated.

You will be innovative, inspirational, and aspirational with a background in media, communications, or marketing. You will have experience of developing media stories, stakeholder engagement, digital communications and marketing as well as having excellent copywriting, editing, campaigning and communication skills.

You will hold a degree or equivalent (preferably in Communications, Journalism, PR or Marketing) and have three or more years’ experience in developing and delivering communication campaigns.

Interested to Find Out More?

You can review our full job description details, and person specification information here.

You are also welcome to contact us for a chat before applying by contacting Vicki Hardcastle, Media, PR & Digital Communications Manager on Victoriahardcastle@sthelens.gov.uk

Thank you for your interest in working for us. If you are experiencing issues with applying online, you can contact a member of the team at Recruitment@sthelens.gov.uk and a form will be sent to you to complete.

Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a sufficient number of applications and encourage you to apply early, to avoid disappointment.

Equality & Diversity

St Helens Borough Council respects and values the individuality that every employee brings. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation. Further information about Equality & Diversity at St Helens Borough Council can be found here https://www.sthelens.gov.uk/equality

St Helens Council is a Disability Confident Employer. This means that the Council guarantees an interview to disabled applicants who demonstrate that they meet the essential criteria for the job, as detailed on the Person Specification, and will, for qualifying disabled candidates, make reasonable adjustments within the interview/selection process.

NOLAN Principles of Conduct in Public Life.

All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership.