Communications and Marketing Specialist

A position has arisen in our busy communications and marketing team to work with our Adult Social Care and Children's services - in delivering a breadth of communications needs to stakeholders and residents in North Northamptonshire and beyond. You will play a pivotal role in leading our communications and marketing for the services to handle media relations and campaigns, to keep people up to date with the latest news, decisions and policies. You will also be working with a wide range of digital communications channels including social media. Your creativity, pragmatism, and flexibility will enable you to handle challenges and present complex information in an easily digestible way for our audiences.What will you be doing? You will need to be able to work quickly and accurately to help support and promote the exciting and diverse work of our Council. Under the guidance of the Senior Communications and Marketing Managers you will help support the services on media management, campaigns and internal communications. You will liaise with the directorates to meet their communications needs and promote the council's brand. Additionally, you'll manage key relationships with stakeholders, providing advice on communications and marketing. The role also requires working closely with partner organisations including the NHS, Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board and the Northamptonshire Children's Trust. You will monitor and evaluate marketing campaigns to ensure efficient delivery while maintaining the council's corporate identity., Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are: Customer-focused Respectful Efficient Supportive Trustworthy Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

You will have solid experience in marketing and communications, and a skillset that includes working with the media, copywriting, digital marketing and social media. You will be a natural communicator who is able to adapt quickly between communications disciplines and with a variety of stakeholders and partners. As well as being creative you will need to be pragmatic and flexible and able to deal with challenges when they arise, making sense of complex information and then communicating it to others. You'll be supported by great colleagues in this tight-knit team, but you will also be able to work independently when required.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we're transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people. You'll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think! Why choose us? We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.