Senior communications and marketing manager
North Northamptonshire Council
Salary: £45,441 - £48,474
Working Hours: 37
Contract Type: Full Time
Job Reference: Ref/52845/5221
Closing Date: 24 November, 2024
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About the role
As one of our Senior Communications Managers, you will play a pivotal role in leading our communications and marketing service. You will work closely with our Communications and Marketing Specialists to design and implement marketing campaigns, handle media relations, and oversee internal communications.
Your strategic vision will drive the promotion of the diverse range of Council services and support, ensuring that our residents, businesses, partners and staff are kept up-to-date with the latest news, decisions and policies.
You will have extensive experience in communications and marketing, with a proven track record in campaign development, media relations, digital marketing and social media. Your exceptional copywriting and storytelling abilities will be key in conveying our initiatives. Your creativity, pragmatism, and flexibility will enable you to handle challenges and present complex information in an easily digestible way for our audiences.
You will be a great leader and communicator, adept at navigating various communication disciplines and working across a range of departments and services. And you will be experienced in working with and advising colleagues and stakeholders at all levels of the organisation including our corporate leadership team.
North Northamptonshire Council only came into being in April 2021, and this is an opportunity to help shape the future of one of the largest unitary authorities in the country. Join us and be part of a dynamic team dedicated to shaping the future of North Northamptonshire Council.
What will you be doing?
As a Senior Communications Manager, you will lead the Communications and Marketing team, ensuring high-quality service delivery. Key responsibilities include developing and managing a Directorate Communications Plan, aligning activities with the Policy and Communications Service Plan, and ensuring compliance with copyright, GDPR, equality, and accessibility standards.
You will create marketing plans for major projects and events, liaise with directorates to meet marketing needs within budget, and promote the council's brand. Additionally, you'll manage key relationships with stakeholders, providing advice on communications and marketing.
You will monitor and evaluate marketing campaigns to ensure efficient delivery while maintaining the council's corporate identity. And you will lead the service in continuous improvement of our delivery.
This role offers a unique opportunity to help shape the future of North Northamptonshire Council.
About you
You will be an experienced communications leader that can demonstrate effective delivery of comprehensive and innovative marketing campaigns and brand strategies within large, complex organisations. With a proven track record of effectively leading a communications and marketing team and finding marketing solutions to complex challenges, making use of the latest techniques, practices, and digital communication tools to promote the work of organisations.
You must have clear evidence of building and maintaining strong relationships with key suppliers and senior managers, ensuring beneficial outcomes for the Council. A successful history in delivering campaigns and communications projects on time and within budget is essential.
In addition to your technical skills, you will need excellent interpersonal abilities to communicate effectively with clients at all levels across the organisation, the public, the media, and external agencies. You should be capable of working independently, managing your own workload, planning ahead, and maintaining accuracy under pressure and tight deadlines.
Our benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
a competitive salary
a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About us
Our Values and Behaviours
Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:
Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy
Our Key Commitments
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.
We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030.
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)
