Communications Business Partner - Bournemouth, United Kingdom - Triumph Consultants Ltd

Triumph Consultants Ltd

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Bournemouth, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

What's involved with this role:

Temporary Communications Business Partner - Marketing

Reference no:
Bournemouth

Pay rate:
£19.90 per hour PAYE

Role Length:
This opening assignment is for 6 months

Basic DBS required for this role

Remote based role with some visits to the office in Bournemouth

Car driver with full valid license, insurance and vehicle A Communications Business Partner (Marketing) is required to partner and support internal clients to ensure that the council's reputation is protected and key business objectives supported, through excellent marketing communications activity. Providing advice to directors, elected members and senior officers on issues management, reputation management, and campaign proposals, sourcing full-service professional support from within the communications team and externally as appropriate. This role can be based remotely but will need to visit Bournemouth Office occasionally so ideally will reside within a reasonable distance to Bournemouth, perhaps 50 miles.

Key responsibilities:

Develop and implement communications and marketing strategies and plans for directorates, to include creative and innovative communication activity in line with the council's corporate objectives.
Ensure all activity is audience focused and linked to strategic priorities and outcomes, with commercial acumen applied in terms of measuring results and return on investment.
Provide and coordinate effective media relations and to lead on responses to high level and contentious media enquiries.
Create / commission engaging content to support communications, campaigns and reputational issues suitable for a mix of audiences and channels.
Support strategic plans and make professional recommendations to senior management on campaign development and the marketing mix.
Keep abreast of professional and public sector developments which have implications for service delivery and present threats or opportunities.
Ensure that all communications activity is in line with national best practice and in keeping with the latest developments in technology.
Prioritise discharging the council's warning and informing duties, as part of the team's incident response requirements.

"Role Requirements" - to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:

Qualifications:

Relevant Marketing qualification/degree.
Advanced relevant professional qualification (or equivalent experience).

Experience:

Experience of finding positive solutions to complex communication challenges.
Strong track record of campaign planning including preparing costed proposals, creative brief development, campaign management and delivery.
Strong track record of successfully managing and advising on contentious issues with the potential to damage the organisation's reputation.
Experience of client relationship and internal account management
Relevant experience from a Public Sector environment.

Skills:

Strong customer focus with associated interpersonal skills.
Ability to work to tight deadlines and respond to a changing pattern of demand and priorities.
Able to influence at the highest level, establishing credibility easily with key stakeholders.
Ability to work on own initiative but also to collaborate as part of a broader team.
Politically astute.
Commercial acumen and ability to identify income generation opportunities for the team.
Strong IT skills using Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
Car driver with full valid license, insurance and vehicle.

_To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF._

_If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity._

Other "Essential Requirements" - Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:

Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.
Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be ei