Marketing and Communications Officer

Job Title: Marketing and Communications Officer
Location: London Borough of Harrow, Forward Drive, Harrow, HA3 8NT
Employer: Pertemps Recruitment Partnership for London Borough of Harrow
Contract Type: Temporary, ongoing
Hours of Work: Full-time, 36 hours per week

Overview:
Pertemps is offering an exciting opportunity at London Borough of Harrow for a self-driven and motivated Marketing and Communications Officer to join an expanding team. This role offers a competitive pay rate of £20.57 - £21.89 PAYE. Additional benefits include excellent training, career development support, and 21 days of holiday (excluding Bank Holidays).

Main Responsibilities:

• Promote London Borough of Harrow work and maintain its reputation through digital, print, and media channels.
• Develop and research campaign strategies, lead communication and behaviour change campaigns, and evaluate their success.
• Plan, deliver, and evaluate communication and engagement campaigns to raise awareness, change perceptions, or influence behaviour.
• Support various consultation and engagement activities to involve businesses, partners, residents, and stakeholders in decision-making.
• Evaluate communication and engagement activities to understand their impact and outcomes.
• Manage relationships with stakeholders providing commissioned services and projects (design, research, engagement, etc.).
• Create content for internal and external publications, case studies, speeches, and reports.
• Manage the council's social media, develop engaging content, and respond to inquiries.

Experience and Skills:

• Previous experience working in complex political environments, understanding public sector challenges.
• Previous experience managing projects to meet quality, time, and cost goals.
• Great communication and written skills
• Previous experience engaging content for internal publications, press releases, media, and social media.
• Previous experience managing social media channels.

The job involves:

• Travel around the borough and between council offices
• Participating in out-of-hours media duties, including weekend cover and Member level meetings

About us
For almost 60 years, Pertemps Recruitment Partnership have been the market leader in providing permanent and temporary staffing solutions and we are one of the most established players within the recruitment industry. The Sunday Times has listed us as one of the Best 100 Companies to work for 14 years running. We are not a big scary faceless company, quite the opposite: we strongly believe in the personal touch with everything we do. We are proud to be accredited 'investor in people' which is reflected across our business in length of service and career progression of our employees.
London Borough of Harrow is the 12th largest London borough and one of the most culturally diverse local authorities in the UK, making it a great place to live, work and visit. Located 10 miles from the city centre and just 13 minutes to Euston from Harrow & Wealdstone station there are great transport links via the Metropolitan Line, Watford DC Line and national rail service. It is easily accessible to the M1, M25 and A406.

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