Contract Type: Fixed Term
Hours: 37 per week
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.
(Interviews are currently planned to take place on the 6th and 7th of August.)
For further information or an informal discussion, please contact Martin Neville at martin.neville@iow.gov.uk.
When you join #TeamIWC you'll receive our staff benefits package, including:
- Annual leave entitlement of 32 days p/a PLUS public holidays!
- Local Government pension scheme
- Discounted Solent ferry travel
- Island bus network discount
- Cycle to work scheme
- Staff parking permit scheme
- Discounted island sports & leisure gym membership
- National and local discounts & benefits schemes
Relocation: For some vacancies (subject to criteria) a relocation scheme of up to £8,000 may be available if you are specifically relocating to the Isle of Wight to work with us, or if you choose to commute to the Isle of Wight daily, you may be eligible to have some travel costs reimbursed.
The Isle of Wight Council currently does not have a license to sponsor overseas workers.
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The Isle of Wight Council is an equal opportunities employer. We are proud to encourage applications from all cultures, backgrounds and abilities to better reflect the diversity within our local community. We are also 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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Closing Date: 29 July 2024
Interview Date: 6 and 7 August 2024