*JOB OF THE WEEK* communications and campaigns officer, london borough of merton

Communications and Campaigns Officer

London Borough of Merton

Grade/Salary ME12: £43,680 - £48,003 per annum

Full time

Permanent 

Ref No: 3027

Closing Date: 14 November 2025

Do you love to create content to bring stories to life? Are you passionate about sharing information that improves peoples' lives? Are you comfortable handling complex and urgent media enquiries and briefing senior leaders?

We are looking for a proactive and creative team member to join Merton Council's high-performing external communications function. With a new structure and communications strategy, it's an exciting time to join us! The team is taking forward the council's ambitions and strategic objectives to help Build a Better Merton for everyone.

• Support the council's mission to serve our community with trusted information.

• Create brilliant communications content that raises awareness about the council's priorities and activities across our channels, including videos, images and basic graphic design.

• Create impactful and influential behaviour change campaigns.

• Put together clear and targeted communications plans with measurable objectives and outcomes.

• Work closely with council service teams to deliver effective and creative communications within designated portfolio areas.

• Proactively seek opportunities to work with the media, local stakeholders, community organisation to promote the council's services, policies and objectives.

• Handle urgent media enquiries in a timely way, providing accurate and thorough responses.

• Engage audiences using a full mix of digital communications.

• Work collaboratively with senior leaders, councillors, and stakeholders providing trusted communications advice.

• Support the delivery of consultations within designated portfolio areas.

• Guard the council's reputation and advise in response to brand management, and crisis communications. 

• Be an expert adviser on external communications approaches and best practice across the organisation. 

This role requires you to work in the office 3 days per week and 2 days from home.

Additional Information

• We pride ourselves on being a diverse, tolerant and welcoming Borough and we aim to create a workforce which reflects the community we serve. 

• As an inclusive employer, we welcome applications from all backgrounds and look forward to receiving your application.

• We are proud to be recognised as a Disability Confident employer.

 What we offer

Please see our why work for us page on our website for more information about a great range of benefits that go beyond salary and offer flexibility to suit you”

Please apply via this link

change communications lead, sandwell council

Change Communications Lead

Sandwell Council

Location: Sandwell Council House Freeth Street Oldbury B69 3BS United Kingdom

Salary: £42839-£48226

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full-Time

Closing date: 17 Nov 2025

Reference: 4185

Having come out of government intervention after two years in 2024 – the quickest ever turnaround – Sandwell Council has already been through a significant period of improvement. We’ve now set our ambition to become an outstanding council, and will continue to make changes to achieve this.

As Change Communications Lead, you will lead on the delivery of change communications as part of the council’s transformation programme, and associated change projects.

We are seeking an experienced and proactive communications lead who will use a thorough understanding of change management principles to develop and deliver communication plans for change programmes and projects that are aligned to the council’s corporate priorities and wider approach to internal communications.

We’re looking for someone who is comfortable advising senior leaders and can engage stakeholders at all levels of a change project to ensure communications is meaningful to them.

You will be able to create compelling content that doesn’t just inform stakeholders but lets them know how the changes being made fit into the council’s wider ambitions.

You’ll work closely with the Internal Communications, Employee Engagement and Brand Manager to align change communications with the council’s broader internal communications strategy.

For an informal conversation about this role please contact Matt More at Matthew_more@sandwell.gov.uk.

We reserve the right to close vacancies prior to their advertised date if we receive a large number of applications. Therefore, you are strongly advised to complete and return your application as soon as possible. When completing your application please refer to the supporting documents attached.

If you have a disability and require assistance in making an application, or have experienced a problem whilst applying for a position, please contact the Resourcing Team on 0121 569 3300 or via e-mail to: hr_resourcing@sandwell.gov.uk

For more information about working for Sandwell Council, our recruitment process and our offer to you please visit https://www.sandwell.gov.uk/counciljobs

Click here to find out more about our One Team Framework: Values and Behaviours

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creative and digital content officer x 3, sandwell council

Creative and Digital Content Officer x 3

Sandwell Council

Location: Sandwell Council House Freeth Street Oldbury B69 3BS

Salary: £31,537-£36,363

Closing date:17 Nov 2025

Reference: 4188

If you have a talent for storytelling, it’s an exciting time to join Sandwell Council.

We have set our ambition to become an outstanding council, and the Communications team is a key strategic service that will help lead the change required to make this ambition a reality.

We are seeking enthusiastic and talented individuals to create content that will help ensure we reach our audiences in the right way to connect them to services, drive behaviour change and boost trust in the council.

From filming videos to writing stories for newsletters, you’ll be planning and creating content for our external and internal communications channels.

Every day will be different as you engage widely with residents, councillors, and partners to gain insight and create content that will resonate and have real impact.

From our work to support vulnerable children and adults, to our investment in the parks and green spaces that make our residents proud to call Sandwell home, you’ll be working across all areas of the council, helping to tell the story of the difference our services make to improve the lives of our residents.

You’ll also be tailoring content for different channels - ranging from our e-newsletters to our soon-to-be launched TikTok channel – making sure we target and reach different audiences in the right way to engage them.

For an informal conversation about this role please contact Matt More at Matthew_more@sandwell.gov.uk.

We reserve the right to close vacancies prior to their advertised date if we receive a large number of applications. Therefore, you are strongly advised to complete and return your application as soon as possible. When completing your application please refer to the supporting documents attached.

If you have a disability and require assistance in making an application, or have experienced a problem whilst applying for a position, please contact the Resourcing Team on 0121 569 3300 or via e-mail to: hr_resourcing@sandwell.gov.uk

For more information about working for Sandwell Council, our recruitment process and our offer to you please visit https://www.sandwell.gov.uk/counciljobs

Click here to find out more about our One Team Framework: Values and Behaviours

MORE INFORMATION AND APPLY