Digital Communications Officer x Scottish Parliamentary Group

Location: Scottish Parliament, with opportunity for hybrid working if required

Hours: 30 hours per week full time (Please note, the Scottish Greens Parliamentary Group operates a four-day working week).

This role involves occasional evening and weekend working, including providing out of hours cover on a rotational basis. Applications for part time or job shares will be considered.

The Scottish Green Parliamentary Group are recruiting two Digital Communications Officers (or the full time equivalent) to support the digital output across the MSP group. This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing team, supporting the newly expanded group of 15 Green MSPs, and the successful candidates will bring creativity and skills across a range of digital platforms.

• Delivering digital communications operations for the Green Parliamentary Group
  • Leading on the creation and editing of high quality video content for multiplatform communications
  • Producing highly engaging graphics, digital assets for live publishing in line with weekly communications schedule and group strategy
  • Monitoring and regularly reporting on social media output and trends to inform content strategy
  • Developing creative new engagement methods for social media accounts
  • Maintaining and growing social media presence in line with the group’s digital communications strategy including mentoring colleagues in best practice and useful skills
  • Participate and help oversee robust forward planning to identify content opportunities and plan ahead inclusive of risk assessments, seeking permissions and liaising with colleagues
  • Develop and maintain key contacts across media, group and stakeholders
  • Carrying out other tasks to support the communications output of the Scottish Parliament team, as required
• Supporting the wider work of the communications team
  • Providing support for general media operations, including responding to media enquiries and drafting of comment and press releases, when required
  • Contributing to content creation for website and mailing list
  • Supporting MSPs regional communications staff, including in development of regional strategies and creation of regionalised content
  • Providing weekend media cover for Green MSPs on a rota
  • Brand development specifically in relation to growing audience, membership and media awareness

• You will have a solid background in digital asset creation.
• Be comfortable working to deadlines in a fast-paced, creative environment with high-throughput of quality content
• Knowledge of using original content to grow audiences on video channels including but not limited to You Tube, Tik Tok, Instagram and Facebook, including live spaces
• Experience of storyboarding and preparing colleagues for speaking to camera across a range of content types
• Experience running social media accounts across a range of digital platforms including overseeing best practice of publishing times, tone of voice and fact based content choices using analytics
• Experience of a similar role in journalism, PR, marketing or campaigning
• A flexible approach to working, with the ability to work as part of a small team and on own initiative
• Knowledge of Photoshop/Illustrator, Lightroom, Premiere/After Effects and Indesign or similar professional applications
• A good knowledge of the Scottish political system
• Ability to work occasional evenings and weekends to support events and provide on-call cover

The Final date to receive applications is 12 noon on Wednesday 16th September.

Interviews will take place in the Scottish Parliament the week commencing the 21st September.