Assistant Business Partner: Media & Engagement – Avon Fire and Rescue Service

National Fire Chiefs Council Limited.; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fire service seeks an Assistant Business Partner: Media & Engagement to enhance their external communications and public relations. This role involves creating and managing campaigns to promote community safety and engagement across various channels, ensuring effective communication with the public.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing social media accounts.
• Skills in writing engaging content for various platforms.
• Ability to design and implement communication campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily planning and content generation for external communication.
• Write impactful content such as press releases and news items.
• Plan and develop innovative campaigns to influence audience behavior.

Skills

Communication

Public Relations

Content Generation

Education

Relevant degree in Communications, Public Relations or similar

Job description

Assistant Business Partner: Media & Engagement – Avon Fire and Rescue Service

Summary of role

Under the supervision of the Senior Business Partner PR & Engagement, you will be responsible for the delivery of effective and impactful external communications, media and public relations and engagement across multiple channels to achieve departmental objectives aligned to AF&RS values, promoting safety advice and maintaining public confidence.

You will design and develop targeted and creative AF&RS campaigns, feeding into national fire and rescue service campaigns, using audience insight and behaviour changing strategies, to improve the Service’s ability to communicate effectively with our communities.

You may also be considered for the other vacancy with the Corporate Communication Team, should your skills and experience align closer to that criteria.

Some of the things you’ll be doing

• Lead on daily planning, content generation and delivery of external communication across the Service.
• Write engaging and impactful content such as press releases and news items for the website, promoting the Service’s achievements and raising awareness of key community and fire safety messages.
• Plan, design and develop innovative and creative campaigns to positively influence the behaviour of the Service’s external and internal audiences, promote community and fire safety advice and maintain public confidence.
• Facilitate and support AF&RS presence at events through the liaison and briefing of internal and external audiences.
• Work with the Senior Business Partner PR & Engagement to identify the appropriate use of new media as a tool to reach and communicate with our diverse communities and specifically those members of our community who are ‘hard to reach’ or vulnerable.
• Learn, engage with and maximise the web-based applications and content management systems being used as key communications channels
• Produce creative live and scheduled content, leading on the day-to-day management of the Service’s social media accounts.
• Provide reactive crisis communications support in response to a significant organisational issue or major incident.

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