Communications Officer

The Communications Officer plays a key role in the team, acting as the first point of contact for enquiries from staff, members of the public and our stakeholders.

You will be working closely with colleagues across the organisation to ensure our internal and external communication channels are kept up to date.

The day-to-day duties of the role include helping to manage our social media accounts, writing content for our website and intranet, responding to media enquiries and co-ordinating our various newsletters.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a supportive team and use your wide range of communications skills to help us make it easier to do research that people can trust., The Communications Officer plays a key role in the day-to-day running of the team by:

managing the communications team inbox, co-ordinating responses to internal and external queries and escalating important issues such as media enquiries

being an active part of the social media rota, designing and publishing posts across channels, responding to queries, monitoring media and social media coverage, and escalating any responses to posts

dealing with ad-hoc requests from colleagues for advice on communications, for example proof reading, ensuring documents follow the HRA house style and making documents accessible.

Working at the HRA, we are reminded daily of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for you, not just us and the work we do. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know from experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger, more creative workplace that helps us to deliver the best services. We welcome applications which represent the rich diversity of our community: age, disability, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and other diverse characteristics, and we have policies in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process. When applying to work here, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement -if it works for us, we will do our best to make