Communication Advisor / Officer

Our client is a large local government organisation and looking for an experienced Comms Business Advisor to join their team

This is initially a 3 month contract which may be extended for the right candidate

You will

• Provide strategic advice on internal and external communications to senior officers and portfolio leads and make recommendations for improvements.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of the council’s communications plans.
• Understand the strategic outcomes and requirements of individual services or external clients and translate into communications plans and delivery programmes.
• Jointly with the other communications business advisers, set standards and introduce content guidelines to ensure the communications team and the council are clear on how they should communicate with residents, customers, employees, partners, businesses and Government.
• Explore and implement new channels of communications and ensuring we are Digital First

• Supervise the work of the professional communications employees in your account group and feed into/attend the function’s senior management team meetings when required.
• Plan, create and deliver your own programme of communications work.
• Champion and support the One Team approach and work collaboratively with colleagues across the team.
• Deputise for the Strategic Communications Business Partners, including attending management meetings and high-level briefings, if appropriate

PLEASE NOTE THIS ROLE IS INSIDE SCOPE OF IR35

HYBRID WORKING AVAILABLE