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Southwark Council, The Borough, Southwark
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- Contract
Posted 3 days ago, 11 Mar
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Full Job Description
To play a key role in telling the story of key work of Southwark Council and its partners through the media and the council's digital and print channels; handle media inquiries and deliver communications plans to keep a strong grip on key corporate issues.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
Create compelling content to tell the story of key council work on priorities for local people across council-owned channels including social media, e-newsletters and Southwark Life.
Create and deliver effective plans to tell the story of key council work on priorities for local people in media of all kinds - national, trade, regional and local.
Grip key issues by giving strategic communications advice to senior leadership and services and developing effective communications plans covering all channels and outputs, including council channels, media, and internal communications.
Handle media inquiries of all kinds, logging them on Vuelio, suggesting responses, drafting lines based on key messaging and ensuring timely sign-off.
Build strong relationships with journalists - national, trade, regional and local - to explain the council's key stories and positions, using creative approaches to pitching and briefing.
Deliver briefings of councillors and officers for interviews with journalists based on key messaging.
Monitor media and social media coverage, regularly updating council Cabinet members, Directors and services and suggesting and delivering effective follow-ups including robustly challenging and responding to inaccurate coverage when appropriate.
Play a key role in the council's out-of-hours service in the evenings and weekends on a rota basis, and initiating the council's emergency communications plan when required.
To plan and create content for key council channels such as the resident e-newsletter and / or Southwark Life magazine as required.
Curate social media including scheduling posts, monitoring content and advising on responses.
Liaise closely with communications officers on media across the communications team, role-modelling positive behaviours.
Lead on and deliver other projects and duties as directed in line with the overall communications objectives and needs of local people and the council.
To understand and provide expert advice on how all communications can be tailored and directed to the diverse community that lives, works in or visits Southwark.
JOB CONTEXT
The Senior Media and Communications Officer creates content to a high standard on all channels for key corporate projects, and plays a key role in delivering proactive and reactive media relations and communications plans on key issues. The postholder will work closely with colleagues across the organisation, from the Chief Executive and Cabinet to frontline officers.
They work closely with communications officers across the wider team on media issues. The postholder reports to the Media and Communications Manager.
The person specification is a picture of skills, knowledge and experience required to carry out the job.
· Significant experience and expertise in media relations and planning and delivering media plans, strategies, statements, responses and media events
· Significant experience/knowledge of digital and social media content creation and an in-depth knowledge of how to tailor content for different social media platforms
· Experience of providing direct advice and briefing to senior managers and/or elected members on media and digital communications
· Experience of working in a highly pressured environment and delivering results to tight deadlines
· Experience of using insight and data to create communications plans and evaluate results
· Experience and understanding of how to handle communications for a business, organisation, public sector or third sector body in a crisis
· Proven ability to find solutions to communications problems and to take necessary action, using all available channels including digital, media and internal communications
· An understanding of local government, the services provided by local councils, and the responsibilities a council has to its residents
· Excellent writing skills with a clear, concise and lively prose style, and the ability to write clearly for a range of different audiences?
· Excellent oral communications skills and the ability to maintain effective relationships at every level of an organisation?
· Experience of planning and producing content for communications channels (eg e-newsletter, magazine, newspaper) with excellent attention to detail and organisational skills, An understanding of local government, the services provided by local councils, and the responsibilities a council has to its residents, Significant experience and expertise in media relations and planning and delivering media plans, strategies, statements, responses and media events, Significant experience/knowledge of digital and social media content creation and an in-depth knowledge of how to tailor content for different social media platforms, Experience of providing direct advice and briefing to senior managers and/or elected members on media and digital communications, Experience of working in a highly pressured environment and delivering results to tight deadlines, Experience of using insight and data to create communications plans and evaluate results, Experience and understanding of how to handle communications for a business, organisation, public sector or third sector body in a crisis, Proven ability to find solutions to communications problems and to take necessary action, using all available channels including digital, media and internal communications, Experience of planning and producing content for communications channels (eg e-newsletter, magazine, newspaper) with excellent attention to detail and strong organisational skills, Excellent writing skills with a clear, concise and lively prose style, and the ability to write clearly for a range of different audiences, Excellent oral communications skills and the ability to maintain effective relationships at every level of an organisation, Must have experience and expertise in media relations including proactive work (news releases, pitching) and reactive work (handling media inquiries)
Must have experience of digital and social media content creation including tailoring content to platforms and audiences
Must have experience of providing advice and briefing to senior managers and / or elected members on media and digtal communications
Southwark is a very diverse inner London borough of more than 300,000 people, with a significant media profile; the council is London's largest council landlord and the fourth-largest in the UK. It has many positive stories to tell, and as a large, complex organisation serving the public, it is also held to significant scrutiny and challenge., Key: E Essential S Shortlisting criteria
I Evaluated at interview
T Subject to test
Southwark Council values: Treating residents as if they were a valued member of your own family | Being open, honest and accountable | Spending money as if it was your own | Working for everyone to realise their own potential | Making Southwark a place to be proud of | Always work to make Southwark more equal and just | Stand against all forms of discrimination and racism.
Join London's best council and play a leading role in telling our stories. This is a mix of media relations - proactive and reactive - and work on digital content for social media, e-newsletters and other channels. Hybrid role with two days a week in Southwark, including Tuesday at our Tooley Street office near London Bridge.
The work pattern is 36 hours a week, usually working either 8am-4pm or 9am-5pm. It may require some evening and weekend working, for which Time Off In Lieu (TOIL) will be given on another day.
The postholder will be expected to work on an on-call rota, which will require some out-of-hours work. There will be an additional payment for this and any work undertaken out-of-hours will be given as Time Off in Lieu.
In a major emergency or crisis in Southwark the postholder may be needed to support the wider communications team, and to work irregular hours in return for TOIL.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
Create compelling content to tell the story of key council work on priorities for local people across council-owned channels including social media, e-newsletters and Southwark Life.
Create and deliver effective plans to tell the story of key council work on priorities for local people in media of all kinds - national, trade, regional and local.
Grip key issues by giving strategic communications advice to senior leadership and services and developing effective communications plans covering all channels and outputs, including council channels, media, and internal communications.
Handle media inquiries of all kinds, logging them on Vuelio, suggesting responses, drafting lines based on key messaging and ensuring timely sign-off.
Build strong relationships with journalists - national, trade, regional and local - to explain the council's key stories and positions, using creative approaches to pitching and briefing.
Deliver briefings of councillors and officers for interviews with journalists based on key messaging.
Monitor media and social media coverage, regularly updating council Cabinet members, Directors and services and suggesting and delivering effective follow-ups including robustly challenging and responding to inaccurate coverage when appropriate.
Play a key role in the council's out-of-hours service in the evenings and weekends on a rota basis, and initiating the council's emergency communications plan when required.
To plan and create content for key council channels such as the resident e-newsletter and / or Southwark Life magazine as required.
Curate social media including scheduling posts, monitoring content and advising on responses.
Liaise closely with communications officers on media across the communications team, role-modelling positive behaviours.
Lead on and deliver other projects and duties as directed in line with the overall communications objectives and needs of local people and the council.
To understand and provide expert advice on how all communications can be tailored and directed to the diverse community that lives, works in or visits Southwark.
JOB CONTEXT
The Senior Media and Communications Officer creates content to a high standard on all channels for key corporate projects, and plays a key role in delivering proactive and reactive media relations and communications plans on key issues. The postholder will work closely with colleagues across the organisation, from the Chief Executive and Cabinet to frontline officers.
They work closely with communications officers across the wider team on media issues. The postholder reports to the Media and Communications Manager.
The person specification is a picture of skills, knowledge and experience required to carry out the job.
· Significant experience and expertise in media relations and planning and delivering media plans, strategies, statements, responses and media events
· Significant experience/knowledge of digital and social media content creation and an in-depth knowledge of how to tailor content for different social media platforms
· Experience of providing direct advice and briefing to senior managers and/or elected members on media and digital communications
· Experience of working in a highly pressured environment and delivering results to tight deadlines
· Experience of using insight and data to create communications plans and evaluate results
· Experience and understanding of how to handle communications for a business, organisation, public sector or third sector body in a crisis
· Proven ability to find solutions to communications problems and to take necessary action, using all available channels including digital, media and internal communications
· An understanding of local government, the services provided by local councils, and the responsibilities a council has to its residents
· Excellent writing skills with a clear, concise and lively prose style, and the ability to write clearly for a range of different audiences?
· Excellent oral communications skills and the ability to maintain effective relationships at every level of an organisation?
· Experience of planning and producing content for communications channels (eg e-newsletter, magazine, newspaper) with excellent attention to detail and organisational skills, An understanding of local government, the services provided by local councils, and the responsibilities a council has to its residents, Significant experience and expertise in media relations and planning and delivering media plans, strategies, statements, responses and media events, Significant experience/knowledge of digital and social media content creation and an in-depth knowledge of how to tailor content for different social media platforms, Experience of providing direct advice and briefing to senior managers and/or elected members on media and digital communications, Experience of working in a highly pressured environment and delivering results to tight deadlines, Experience of using insight and data to create communications plans and evaluate results, Experience and understanding of how to handle communications for a business, organisation, public sector or third sector body in a crisis, Proven ability to find solutions to communications problems and to take necessary action, using all available channels including digital, media and internal communications, Experience of planning and producing content for communications channels (eg e-newsletter, magazine, newspaper) with excellent attention to detail and strong organisational skills, Excellent writing skills with a clear, concise and lively prose style, and the ability to write clearly for a range of different audiences, Excellent oral communications skills and the ability to maintain effective relationships at every level of an organisation, Must have experience and expertise in media relations including proactive work (news releases, pitching) and reactive work (handling media inquiries)
Must have experience of digital and social media content creation including tailoring content to platforms and audiences
Must have experience of providing advice and briefing to senior managers and / or elected members on media and digtal communications
Southwark is a very diverse inner London borough of more than 300,000 people, with a significant media profile; the council is London's largest council landlord and the fourth-largest in the UK. It has many positive stories to tell, and as a large, complex organisation serving the public, it is also held to significant scrutiny and challenge., Key: E Essential S Shortlisting criteria
I Evaluated at interview
T Subject to test
Southwark Council values: Treating residents as if they were a valued member of your own family | Being open, honest and accountable | Spending money as if it was your own | Working for everyone to realise their own potential | Making Southwark a place to be proud of | Always work to make Southwark more equal and just | Stand against all forms of discrimination and racism.
Join London's best council and play a leading role in telling our stories. This is a mix of media relations - proactive and reactive - and work on digital content for social media, e-newsletters and other channels. Hybrid role with two days a week in Southwark, including Tuesday at our Tooley Street office near London Bridge.
The work pattern is 36 hours a week, usually working either 8am-4pm or 9am-5pm. It may require some evening and weekend working, for which Time Off In Lieu (TOIL) will be given on another day.
The postholder will be expected to work on an on-call rota, which will require some out-of-hours work. There will be an additional payment for this and any work undertaken out-of-hours will be given as Time Off in Lieu.
In a major emergency or crisis in Southwark the postholder may be needed to support the wider communications team, and to work irregular hours in return for TOIL.
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