Digital Communications Officer

Full Job Description

Salary: £47,245 pro rata

Grade: 7
Contract type: Permanent, Part Time
Reference: (phone number removed)
Contract details: average 25.8 hours a week
Interview date: Week Commencing 20 May 2024
Application closing date: Sun, 05/05/2024 - 23:59

Strategy and Communications

Strategy and Communications sits at the centre of the organisation, bringing together several teams with organisation-wide remits and mutual collaboration opportunities.

The work of the directorate’s teams includes delivery of major events, designing and leading public affairs or marketing campaigns, providing data, evidence and analysis, leading cross-organisational programmes, to making sure we plan for and can respond to emerging events or emergencies in our city.

About the role

The Mayor of London is looking for a Digital Communications Officer to join our Digital Communications team at City Hall, London.

If you’re a social media expert with a deep knowledge of creating engaging and inspiring content for Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, NextDoor and other emerging channels we want to hear from you.

The Mayor of London is looking for a Digital Communications Officer to join our Digital Communications team at City Hall, London. This role is part time and averages at 25.8 hours per week

*Please note: the working pattern for this role will vary across a four-week shift plan to cover 7am-10pm, Monday-Sunday. An example shift pattern is available below.

Example Shift Pattern

Your weekly hours will be an average of 25.8, which will be split up as four 7.5 hour weekday shifts (excluding an hour’s break) or one 7.5 and two 7.25 shifts over a weekend. The shifts have been designed to ensure that all of our Digital Communications Officers work across a pattern of early mid-week, late mid-week, early weekend, and late weekend shifts.

How to apply

If you would like to apply for the role you will need to submit the following:

* Up to date CV

* Personal statement with a maximum of 1500 words. Please ensure you address how you demonstrate the essential criteria outlined above in the advert as well as the behavioural competencies listed in the job description below.

Please note all applications for this vacancy must be submitted via our online recruitment system. We do not accept CVs alone for this role. Please upload a personal statement to the ‘Additional Documents’ section of the form. Word or PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images.

Please ensure your CV and Personal statement documents are saved with the job reference number as part of the naming convention (E.g. “CV – applicant name - (phone number removed))

Please note, if you do not provide both a CV and a covering letter, you will not be considered for the role so please ensure the above has been submitted before the deadline