Communications Officer

Do you want to play a key role in supporting the delivery of high-impact transport communications for Greater Manchester – one of the most ambitious, exciting and high-profile areas in the UK?

We’re looking for a communications professional who can tell a great story and has experience of producing high-quality social and video content. You’ll help promote the Bee Network and the exciting plans for its growth.

This is a brilliant opportunity to join a respected communications team, helping to drive forward Greater Manchester’s pioneering approach to public transport.

You’ll join a busy and talented team, bringing knowledge and experience of storytelling and social media – and explaining what we’re doing in engaging, easily-understood and creative ways that resonate with our customers and the public. You’ll have a particular focus on creating compelling broadcast-quality content.

If you thrive on pace and variety and are comfortable developing stories and shot lists, shooting and editing video, we want to hear from you.

Reporting to the Communications Manager and working closely with the Social Media & Digital Marketing Manager, you will play a pivotal role in the communications team. You’ll build and maintain trusted relationships with different teams and functions within TfGM and GMCA and help shape and support the delivery of communication plans, campaigns and online content to support the city-region’s transport vision.

You’ll come up with creative and imaginative concepts for content, and be confident in delivering ideas from the initial storyboard through to them being published externally.

For more info see Job Profile below.

You’ll be working in the Communications team at Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM), the organisation which runs the Bee Network, Greater Manchester’s joined-up public transport system, which including buses and trams, walking, wheeling and cycling.

Each and every journey is important, linking people and places, people to jobs, skills, schools, education and opportunity, helping family and friends get together and stay in touch, and supporting enterprise by opening up the job market to more candidates and helping more customers get to shops and businesses.

You will also be working closely with Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), ensuring the communications activity we deliver is coordinated with their own activity and the elected Mayor of Greater Manchester.

It’s a key role in the team and a great opportunity to learn, develop and grow.

We’re looking for a positive, proactive, creative and pragmatic communicator. Someone who has experience of supporting the development and delivery of communications campaigns for businesses and organisations, is comfortable creating content and drafting copy for use across multiple channels.

You should have the ability to spot a good story, draft copy and develop scripts - and have the ability to translate complex data into easy-to-understand information suitable for the audience.

You should also have significant experience of using social media and digital communications channels to support the delivery of multi-channel communications plans – including the ability to film and edit content yourself.

Strong verbal and written skills are key along with a proven ability to work with a wide cross section of people and teams both internally and at partner organisations. We need someone efficient and organised, with experience of maintaining client…