Communications Assistant - Gloucester, United Kingdom - Kier Group
Description
We're looking for a Communications Assistant to join our Highways team based in Gloucester to prepare and circulate Kier Highways A417 Missing Link information, regular staff newsletters, site newsletters and other internal communications as required to established deadlines.
You'll also be responsible for the timely production of a wide range of external communications across a variety of media.
To be successful in this role you'll need to be self-motivated and confident and be capable of building good working relationships with a wide range of people, both internal and external.
Within this role, you can enjoy a company car or car allowance, generous annual leave with the option to buy or sell and even more.
Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Nor can we Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Highways and make a difference.
Location:
Gloucester - based at Southgate House in Gloucester with some remote working available
Contract:
Permanent - Fulltime (flexible and part-time hours available if desired, just let us know)
Salary:
£28k FTE + £3.8k car allowance + benefits
Responsibilities
As a Communications Assistant, you'll ensure all communications, internal and external, adhere to brand, style and messaging guidelines and represent Kier values regardless of media
Your day to day will include:
- prepare Kier Highways A417 Missing Link marketing and other externally focussed communications
- co-ordinate the photographic needs of the business, including maintaining a photographer/videographer list and arranging site and event photography and video as appropriate
- work collaboratively with Kier Group and specifically the Highways communications team / PR Team in respect of external articles and press coverage
- work with office and project teams to organise site/client events such as ground-breaking and topping out ceremonies
What are we looking for?
This role of Communications Assistant is great for you if have:
- degree level qualification in media, journalism or related discipline
- fully conversant with Microsoft Office products including Word, PowerPoint and Excel and confident with publishing tools such as Adobe InDesign, Acrobat and Photoshop and social media such as Twitter and LinkedIn
We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.
Some of our favourites include:
- new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance, and more
- a fantastic, matched pension scheme
- life assurance
- 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
And so much more You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website.
Who is Kier?
As a leading UK infrastructure services, construction and property group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK.
We are collaborative, trusted and focused, and we will empower you to achieve your career goals, and listen to your thoughts, ideas and challenges.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more.
Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.
You can see more about our D&I action plan here.Closing Date: 31 May 2023
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