Communications and Campaigns Officer; Public Health

Communications and Campaigns Officer (Public Health)

Contract type Permanent

Department Communications and Campaigns

Salary Grade 9, £34,435 to £37,488 per annum

Location County Hall, Newport, Isle of Wight

This role is office-based; however, it also some agile or remote working

Are you passionate about engaging with people and supporting them to lead healthy lives?

Do you have experience in media relations management, social media, marketing, and communications campaigns?

Can you shape messages into engaging, inspiring content for multiple channels including a range of social media, digital and stakeholder packages? Then this role could be for you!

In this role you will lead the promotion of the council's public health activity, from supporting behaviour change to enable healthy lifestyle choices, to encouraging health protection initiative take-up. You’ll consider local, hyper‑local, sometime targeted audiences with your campaigns, working with our public health team to deliver supporting communications and social media marketing activity for their broad programme of work. You will work with partners to amplify and develop campaigns, supporting engagement throughout processes.

You will prepare exciting and engaging content for a variety of complimentary channels including press, targeted marketing, online content and social media and supporting stakeholder engagement.

This role requires effective communications planning, dynamism and a passion to succeed. You will undertake proactive communications messages and reactive media enquiries from a variety of media, including print, broadcast and online media, while fostering effective working relationships with key media contacts. You will contribute to behaviour change campaigns on a variety of initiatives, including smoking cessation, weight management, mental health and immunisations, using the complete marketing mix.

You will also have a good understanding of plain English, events management and engagement activities.

You will be a quick‑thinking, organised, independent and motivated individual with an eye for a good story and a flair for capturing the essence of the news, while showcasing local value, as well as ability to manage sometimes large and often challenging workloads and timescales.

You will be educated to level 4 in relevant subject or have equivalent experience in communications specialist roles. Full details of the requirements of the post can be found on the job summary. Please read the supporting guidance when completing your application and we look forward to hearing from you.

• Annual leave entitlement of 32 days p/a PLUS public holidays!
• Discounted Solent ferry travel
• Island bus network discount
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted island sports & leisure gym membership
• National and local discounts & benefits schemes
• Relocation scheme of up to £8,000 may be available for some roles (subject to criteria)
• Travel allowance may be available if commuting from the mainland (subject to criteria)

The Isle of Wight Council currently does not have a license to sponsor overseas workers.

We actively promote the diversity of our workforce, and provide flexible working options (where appropriate) to support the different needs of our employees. We are an equal opportunities employer, proud to encourage applications from all cultures, backgrounds and abilities to better reflect the diversity within our local community.

We are a Disability Confident employer . Along with a number of commitments, this means, providing you meet the basic essential requirements of the advertised role and have declared yourself as disabled, you will be offered an opportunity for an interview within the council.

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