Communications Assistant

Job Title: Communications Officer
Location: Dorchester
Contract Type: Temporary
Salary: £14.36 per hour

About Us

Connect2Dorset is the managed service provider for Dorset Council, supplying high-quality temporary, contract, and interim staffing solutions across various departments. We are proud to be an ethical, trustworthy, and caring organisation.

The LiveWell Dorset mission: To protect and improve the health and wellbeing of the population of Dorset. To reduce health inequalities, increase healthy life expectancy and contribute to the efficient and sustainable use of local health care resources.

The service has attracted national attention as a novel and innovative approach to helping people change their behaviours and live healthier lives. Support is delivered at scale and is designed to meet the needs of those people and communities who will benefit most. We support individuals to become more active, drink less, stop smoking and maintain a healthy weight and system partners to embrace their role in preventing ill-health.

About you:

• You're a confident, hardworking communications professional who is passionate about our mission to help people live healthier lives.

• You get our vibes, you know how to stay on-brand and will use the LiveWell voice in everything you produce.

• You're a team player and love the sense of achievement from working together to get stuff done.

• You can think outside the box and are able to offer up solutions to challenges.

• You're organised - very!

• You roll with it. Sometimes we have to work fast to get stuff done. You are comfortable with a little bit of chaos.

• You understand that we need to communicate with different people in different ways and can connect with a variety of audiences.

Responbilities:

• Support the creation of content for in-house and national campaigns

• Design and produce marketing materials for sharing: eg: posters, flyers

• Help develop and implementing our communications plan

• Create and manage website content

• Data analysis and reporting, understand and respond to new information

• Uploading and scheduling social media posts

• Maintaining and updating our resource library

• Edit and design newsletters

• Work with teams and partners to ensure they have promotional resources they need

Connect2Dorset is a trading style of Dorset & Kent Commercial Services LLP - A joint venture between Dorset Council & Commercial Services Kent Ltd. Connect2Dorset is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.