Communications Officer

We are recruiting for the role of Communications Officer, within our communications team. The role has a focus on digital communications covering work across the organisation.
We trust and empower colleagues to work in a hybrid way, providing the resources, equipment, and support, so that individually and collectively, we can be the voice of children and young people when the family court makes critical decisions about their futures.
Whilst this role is flexibly based, travelling is expected at least once a month to our London office (Gray's Inn Road). Our teams work flexibly and remotely, meaning your proximity to the office doesn’t always have to be a critical consideration.
We are a diverse, inclusive organisation that is a safe space for colleagues with shared aspects of identity and lived experience. This helps ensure we provide a service which promotes the diversity and uniqueness of children and families from all backgrounds. We especially welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds as we strive to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity of the children and families with whom we work.
We provide extensive wellbeing support for colleagues, as well as excellent benefits, all of which we hope encourages you to join us., You will draw on your expertise in digital communications to make a significant contribution to the way Cafcass communicates with children, families and stakeholders.
As Communications Officer you will be expected to:
+ Produce multimedia content to be used on Cafcass’ digital channels
+ Lead the development of Cafcass’ social media channels
+ Lead content management of the Cafcass website and ensure effective SEO is in place
+ Create insight reports that evaluate the effectiveness of Cafcass’ digital channels.
The above is just an overview of what the role entails and if you’re thinking of applying, we encourage you to read the full Job Description (which is available prior to applying) to gain a better understanding., Finally, in anticipation of your application being successful, you might want to read about the offer and pre-employment checks process. As part of your application you can highlight any concerns or questions about the pre-employment checks and we encourage all applicants to do so, safe in the knowledge such information will not be shared with individuals involved in the selection process.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

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+ Experience of working in a digital communications role
+ A creative approach to digital content development with expertise in producing content using Adobe Creative Suite; InDesign, Photoshop and Premier Pro
+ Experience of content management systems
+ Experience of creating insight reports using Google Analytics and other reporting tools.

We also know that to join us you want to be rewarded in a variety of ways, including quality time away from work to spend time with those important to you, support to manage your financial present and future, whilst also being trusted to manage your work/life balance. We have an extensive package of benefits that you can find out more about when you click through, including excellent holidays and a generous Local Government Pension Scheme to name just two things.
We also understand that you will want to work for an organisation that is both passionate and committed to supporting your wellbeing. As you will find out when you visit our vacancy page, the four dedicated, additional days per year when colleagues are encouraged to spend time focusing on their health and wellbeing is just one of a multitude of ways in which we do this.