Overview
Media Officer – New Shire Hall, Alconbury, United Kingdom
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 the role
Thrive on deadlines? Come and be our Media Officer.
As our Media Officer, you’ll be the primary point of contact for most of our daily media enquiries. You’ll support the team in disseminating news and media coverage about CCC via all key communications channels. Working within our highly regarded PR and Media team, you will produce external-facing content for media, our news website, as well as various other platforms (e.g. blogs and social media). You will be responsible for developing updates and impact reports on news issues for councillors and officers, and responding to requests from local, regional, national and trade media, as well as arranging interviews and media training for CCC spokespeople.
About you
To do this job you’ll need experience of working in a busy press office environment, both in normal working hours and out of hours. You’ll understand the workings of external media (print, broadcast, online and social) and working to deadlines. You’ll have experience of using media and web content management systems, social media platforms, as well as using image editing software. You’ll need the ability to spot a good story, convey a subject matter concisely and in a compelling way to a wide range of audiences. This will include, strong writing skills, and the ability to communicate appropriately and effectively in person. You’ll be able to establish priorities and manage multiple activities to meet organisational priorities.
For further information or discussion about this role please contact Jonathan Kitley, Communications Manager Media on 01223 699281 or email Jonathan.kitley@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
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.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
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.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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