Corporate Communications Manager

Cambridge County Council; Alconbury; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A local government authority in Alconbury is seeking a part-time Corporate Communications Manager. The role requires a strategic approach to support the organisation's narrative and external voice. Key responsibilities include managing social media presence, ensuring communication clarity, and implementing engagement strategies. Candidates should have experience in corporate communications and be adept at monitoring and evaluating communication practices. This position offers a competitive benefits package and a commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Benefits

Wellbeing package

Flexible bank holidays

Paid volunteering hours

Employee Recognition Awards

Access to discounts and schemes

Qualifications

• Experience in managing corporate communications and social media presence.
• Ability to evaluate and monitor communication effectiveness.
• Strong understanding of communication policies and guidance.

Responsibilities

• Support the organisation's overall narrative and external voice.
• Ensure consistency and clarity in communications.
• Lead on evaluation and engagement strategies.

Skills

Social media management

Strategic communication

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Now is an exciting time to join the corporate communications team at Cambridgeshire County Council. We are recruiting to a number of roles to complete our newly restructured service.

We are looking for a part time (24 hours a week) Corporate Communications Manager. The Corporate Communications Manager supports the organisation's overall narrative and external voice. The role ensures consistency, clarity and alignment with strategic priorities whilst working to develop channels and communications policies and guidance. It will also take a lead on evaluation, monitoring and engagement to ensure best practice. For example, leading the development of our social media presence and our digital citizen engagement platform.

For more information about this opportunity please contact Ed Strangeways on 07796 612144 or [e-mail]

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers