Corporate Communications Officer - Dundee, United Kingdom - Social Security Scotland

Social Security Scotland

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Dundee, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Overview:

This is an exciting opportunity to join the busy, friendly Communications and Marketing team at Social Security Scotland, an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government.

This role is part of the Corporate Communications Team.

Social Security Scotland delivers benefits for people across Scotland on low incomes, disabled people, carers, young people entering the workplace and to help people heat their homes.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who would like to develop their career in communications. The role will include corporate communications, copywriting, and website coordination. This role is central to supporting the organisation of the whole communications team. We offer professional development and great career prospects.

What do we offer you?

Access to our flexible working system with potential to accrue up to four additional days' leave in a fourweek period.
Minimum five weeks' annual leave (pro rata) in addition to 11.5 public and privilege holidays.
Full and comprehensive training, and access to learning and development opportunities to support your personal and professional growth.
Career progression join a developing organisation with excellent opportunities for career advancement.
Attractive Civil Service pension (employer contributions between 26.6% 27.9%).
Workplace adjustments for everyone who needs them to ensure your comfort and safety in your new role.
Health and wellbeing support including 24hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme, plus counselling support available for all.

Hybrid Working
We embrace a hybrid working style where all colleagues will spend time in either our Glasgow or Dundee offices. We expect people to spend a minimum of two days per week in their assigned location. Your base location will be Dundee or Glasgow.

About Us
Social Security Scotland is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government. Our benefits help people from all walks of life in Scotland. We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce that is representative of the clients we serve.

Find out more about us here

Responsibilities:

Manage and issue daily media digest, communication updates for operational colleagues and issue communications updates to colleagues and senior stakeholders on the Executive Advisory Board.
Source, write, edit and manage highquality website content including timely publication of stats, articles and associated content.
Coordination of website update and migration to new platform.
Write website content, review existing content on a regular basis.
Act as editor and write highquality content for a range of Social Security Scotland channels including a regular Stakeholder Newsletter.
Use media monitoring to drive insight and evaluation reports.
Work collaboratively with stakeholders and partners to deliver creative ways of communicating our key messages to our target audiences to help promote benefit takeup.
Share key content which promotes our brand values of dignity, fairness and respect.
Liaise with media to generate interest in media announcements and to respond to reactive enquiries.
Contribute to quarterly communications plans and activity grid.
Contribute to social media content.
Deliver highquality communications outputs across a range of channels.

Qualifications:
No specific qualifications are required for this post.

How to apply

Experience of working in communications, with good skills in using a range of communications channels, including digital, to tailor content for target audiences.
Professional writing and editing skills with a keen news sense. The ability to prioritise under pressure and to deliver copy in plain English to tight deadlines.
Good communications skills combined with the confidence to manage and influence people at all levels to achieve business objectives.

Social Security Scotland - Further information for job applicants

Interview/Assessment Information
Here are details of the Competencies required for this role which you will be tested against if you are invited to attend the interview/assessment:

Self-Awareness
Communications and Engagement
Improving Performance
Analysis and Use of Evidence

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Further Information
The post is a full-time role, however staff with different working patterns are invited to apply. We will assess proposed working patterns against the business requirements for this post.

Social Security Scotland's recruitment processes are underpinned by the recruitment principles of the Civil Service Commissioner, which outline that selection for appointment be made on merit on the basis of fair and open competition - Recruitment - Civil Service Commission )

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