Communications and Marketing Specialist

Temporary Communications and Marketing Specialist N Northamptonshire RQ1435294 Flexible Hybrid role – WFH and Kettering Office Please do not apply for this role unless your CV meets the following general requirements, listed below: You must be UK based and have the right to work in the UK. For office based and hybrid roles, your commute to the place of work must be less than 1 hour. This is a temporary role, initially 2-3 months. Please do not apply if you are seeking a permanent position. Full UK driving licence. Key Requirements: Suitable level of experience in a relevant communications role. Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of the principles of communications and marketing gained through previous work experience or through training such as the Certificate in Marketing validated by the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Previous experience of writing communication plans and strategies. Proficiency in IT packages – Outlook, MS Teams, Word, Excel, Power Point, MS Teams and Adobe design packages to advanced level. The purpose of the role is to manage and provide external and internal communications services including corporate communications, marketing, publications, advertising promotional campaigns and the cost-effective employment of all media for such purposes. Key Responsibilities: Provide corporate advice and implementation for senior managers, service areas and elected members on three or more of the specialist areas of communications. Take a lead in their areas of specialist knowledge, operating across services with minimal supervision and management. Challenge existing established and proposed approaches to marketing and communications activities and, working with the Senior Communications Managers and service directors and managers, produce inventive and cost-effective strategies, ideas and actions for campaigns and one-off communications projects using appropriate media. Persuade stakeholders of the validity and cost effectiveness of those recommendations and manage those ideas into projects within specified timescales and budgets. Assist in the creation and maintenance of effective systems for the improved internal communications throughout the Council through the co-ordination of external and internal communications activity.

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