PR & Communications Officer

Recruiter
Anonymous
Location
Birmingham
Salary
24000.00 - 26000.00 GBP Annual
Posted
20 Nov 2018
Closes
18 Dec 2018
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
PR & Communications Officer
Birmingham (Birmingham Business Park)
Salary GBP24,000 -GBP26,000 per annum DOE
Permanent, Full Time (37 hours per week)

Are you a first-class communicator? Want to work for a large, thriving organisation with a clear social purpose?

Our client is one of the largest and most successful housing organisations in the Midlands providing around 30,000 homes with a turnover of GBP140 million per year.

As a registered not-for-profit social housing provider, they are proud to give tens of thousands of people across the Midlands one of the most important things they will ever have - a home - and support to remain in it. Housing may bring to mind images of bricks and cranes, but it's actually about one thing; people.

This is a great opportunity for a skilled communications professional to join them at a crucial time, as they look to build their profile and drive the work of their organisation forward in a number of important ways.

Working closely with our PR & Communications Manager and the rest of their Communications Team you will play a central role in helping them to provide a high-performing communications function for their organisation at this hugely exciting time.

You will be an excellent communicator with first-rate written and verbal skills which you can deploy with the highest level of skill and attention to detail no matter what the purpose or who your audience is. You'll have no problem working to tight deadlines and your output will be exceptional.

Creating engaging content which profiles their work across their intranet, website and social media channels will be second nature to you and you'll be willing to turn your hand to video content, campaigns and a range of other communications tools and techniques.

You will be experienced in everything from writing press releases to briefing designers, dealing with media enquiries and much more.

Experience of working in the housing sector is desirable but not essential. However, you will have experience of working in a in large organisation, preferably in the not-for-profit sector.
You'll be a people person who can forge close relationships with people across the organisation and within your team, to turn diverse needs into high-quality communication outputs time after time.

You will be an ideas person and you'll inject energy and enthusiasm into everything that you do.

Has reading this made you excited? You could be the person to fill this crucial role in their team and their organisation at this exciting time.

The role requires the candidate to have a current clean driving licence and an essential basic DBS check