Communications Officer

Confidential; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Sellick Partnership is recruiting for a Communications Officer on a hybrid basis in Birmingham for a 3-month period. The role offers hourly PAYE between £18.44 and £23.71, with potential for flexibility depending on commitments and performance.

You will handle frontline communications, draft content for websites and social media, manage media relations, and support internal messaging for stakeholders across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a similar Communications role.
• Experience within the public sector is beneficial.
• Experience in general communications and copywriting.

Responsibilities

• Provide first point of contact resolution and frontline telephone advice.
• Develop internal and external communication strategies and content for websites, intranets, newsletters and social media.
• Coordinate media relations, including press releases and media enquiries.

Skills

Similar role experience

Public sector experience

Copywriting experience

Job description

Role: Communications Officer

Sector: Public Sector

Duration: 3 months

Location: Birmingham

Salary: 18.44 PAYE to 23.71 PAYE per hour

Sellick Partnership is currently recruiting for an experienced Communications Officer to join our client based in Birmingham. This role is offered on a hybrid basis, for 3 months.

The duties of the Communications Officer

• Providing first point of contact resolution, to facilitate the delivery of professional, customer focussed, front line telephone advice and guidance, signposting to self-service system, where appropriate
• Working fostering professional working relationships within own immediate team, wider teams within HR, Managers, Employees, Trade Union Representatives, other Local Authorities and Partners.
• Assisting the team to provide effective support, and produce accurate employment related documentation, in line with relevant legislation, national terms and conditions and Trust policies and procedures.
• Assisting with recruitment practices and support executive recruitment, where appropriate.
• Assisting with recruitment at all levels but specifically focussed on the qualified social worker field and administer recruitment programmes and selection as requested.
• Assisting the wider team to ensure continuous improvement within the designated service areas and benchmark performance against local and national expectations.
• Assisting in the promotion of self-service wherever possible, referring to specialist posts where necessary
• Developing and delivering internal and external communication strategies to support organisational objectives
• Creating engaging content for websites, intranets, newsletters, social media platforms, and marketing materials
• Managing social media channels, monitoring engagement, and responding to enquiries where appropriate
• Supporting senior leaders with key messaging, speeches, presentations, and stakeholder communications
• Coordinating media relations activities, including preparing press releases and responding to media enquiries
• Planning and delivering communication campaigns to promote organisational initiatives, services, and achievements

The Communications Officer will ideally have

• Previous experience in a similar role
• Previous experience within the public sector would be beneficial
• Experience within general communications and copywriting

The Communications Officer will need to have excellent communication skills and effectively be able to communicate to stakeholders of all levels. Furthermore, the ideal candidate will have an impeccable eye for detail and accuracy to ensure all workload is carried out effectively and efficiently. They will also need to able to prioritise their workload and be efficient and effective to meet unpredictable deadlines and deal with conflicting demands, whilst working in a high-pressured environment.

Sellick Partnership is proud to be an inclusive and accessible recruitment business and we support applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances. Please note, our advertisements use years' experience, hourly rates, and salary levels purely as a guide and we assess applications based on the experience and skills evidenced on the CV. For information on how your personal details may be used by Sellick Partnership, please review our data processing notice on our website.