Greater London Authority, one of our largest public sector clients based in London are looking to recruit  Digital Communications Officer to join their team on an initial 3-month contract (with possibilities of further extensions). The role is full time, Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week, 3 days in office and 2 days’ work from home. The office is based at City Hall which is near Canning Town on the Jubilee line or Royal Victoria on the DLR.  Pay rate:£20.69 per hour PAYE or £26.28 per hour Umbrella Job Purpose:Working with the Senior Press Officer, to provide media and communications support for Labour Assembly Members in all matters relating to press. To support the development and implementation of the media and communications strategy of the Labour Group.

Key responsibilities:

• To provide wide-ranging media support (Facebook and Twitter/X) to Labour Assembly Members, seeking and exploiting opportunities to raise the profile of Labour Assembly Members to promote their work and support their roles as an Assembly Member.
• To produce timely and well-written media releases, media statements, newsletters, articles and constituency reports, to publication standard, on behalf of Assembly Members, with the support of the Senior Stakeholder and Communications Officer.
• To contribute to the team’s digital media work, working with the Digital Communications Officer. This will involve producing outputs including material for online campaigns and social media activity, to publication standard.
• To use political awareness and good communication skills to undertake a range of media and communications activities.
• To act as a first, primary point of contact for Assembly Members for members of the press and media.
• To keep up to date with developments in current affairs to provide proactive public affairs support to the London Assembly Labour Group Members, including working with colleagues to identify questions for Mayor’s Question Time arising from, and leading to, local, regional and strategic press campaigns.
• To manage resources allocated to the job in accordance with the Authority’s policies and code of Ethics and Standards; to realise the benefits of London’s diversity by promoting and enabling equality of opportunities and promoting the diverse needs and aspirations of London’s communities; to realise the benefits of a flexible approach to work in undertaking the duties and responsibilities of this job, participating in multi-discipline cross departmental and organisational group and task teams.  

Due to the nature of the role, applicants with press and digital social media experience is essential to be able to carry out the role. If you have the required experience and skill set apply now by forwarding your CV across in a MS Word format.