Marketing and Information Officer

Job description

·  Location
Barnet, Greater London
·  Salary
£26.10/Hour
·  Category
Marketing & Advertising - Marketing
·  Job type
Contractor
·  Industry
Public Sector
·  External Reference
LBN6308

JOB TITLE: Marketing and Information Officer
LOCATION: Newham Dockside
PAY RATE: £20.16 per hour PAYE / £26.10 per hour Umbrella
DURATION: 6 months
IR35 STATUS: Inside

Overall Purpose of Job

·  Deliver a consistent, council-wide programme of communications based on agreed communications strategies in line with corporate priorities

·  Promote a positive image of the council and explain its policies to residents, employees, businesses, visitors, tourists and other target groups

·  Manage the brand including the provision of communications advice, public affairs work and representing the council on external bodies

KNOWLEDGE:

·  Solid understanding of different marketing and internal communications channels and disciplines

·  Knowledge of how the media works and design and print processes

·  Evidence of attention to detail in terms of writing and producing publicity and information material

·  Some understanding of how the NHS works and knowledge of public health services would be desirable.

QUALIFICATIONS:

·  Educated to degree level or equivalent.

·  Ideally with or working toward a relevant professional qualification

EXPERIENCE:

·  Broad experience of developing, implementing and evaluating marketing and information campaigns with a proven track record of achieving results

·  Experience of communications in a large organisation

·  Experience of managing workloads effectively and allocating resources accordingly

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Service Communications Skills

·  Understands the uses of all tools and channels and how to deal with a communications issue through professional knowledge and experience.

·  Keeps up to date with industry developments

·  Understands and delivers plans which have demonstrable results, involving process planning and built-in evaluation.

Project Management:

·  Manages projects effectively

·  Keeps accurate records and project plans, ensuring files are up-to-date at all times.

·  Demonstrates a finely honed attention to detail on all aspects of a project whether proof-reading a document or managing an event.

·  Ensures a project is 'perfect' before passing on to manager for approval.

·  Prioritises, delegates and co-ordinates tasks according to resources and corporate objectives.

·  Well organised and methodical

Creates new ideas within the team

·  Appropriately challenges the conventional ways of getting things done.

·  Comes up with new ways of doing things in the team.

·  Makes suggestions for new ideas to the team.

·  Generates a wide range of solutions to address a problem.

Current Affairs:

·  An understanding of and interest in London government issues and general awareness of current affairs and how external issues affect our campaigns to enable appropriate response.

Creativity:

·  Has the imagination and flair to think laterally about campaigns and the use of communications tools displaying flexibility in responding to rapidly changing circumstances.

·  An eye for good design and presentation

Corporate Purpose:

·  Understands and can show evidence of the delivery of corporate goals during career.

Events

·  Can plan, organise and execute external events to a high standard.

Publications:

·  Can write and edit publications and publicity materials to a high standard for mass circulation.

·  Demonstrates an understanding of the communication needs of different audiences and how this can be expressed in a written, web-based or broadcast publication.

Ensures all publicity is accurate before printing, grammar, spelling, visuals, layout and sense. Triple-checking all printed material.

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