What's involved with this role: Interim Senior Comms Officer - One SAP – IT Services Job Ref: Gloucestershire 5259285 Pay Rate: £291.73 per day PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 4 months City: Gloucester, Gloucestershire The purpose of this role is to lead, alongside another senior comms professional, on integrated communications support to the One Programme with a particular focus on the One SAP. This requires working across all workstreams, partners and utilising various channels and disciplines to effectively communicate and engage with a broad range of stakeholders. The candidate will develop and deliver communications/campaign for the programme in line with the agreed One SAP change strategy and the communications strategies for the Council. Key Responsibilities: Working with a One SAP Workstream leads to understand the strategic outcomes and requirements of individual workstreams or external clients and translate into communications plans and delivery programmes. Deliver integrated communications/campaign plans that support the objectives of the programme. Providing constructive challenge where needed, to recommend the right communications tools and channels for each stage of the programme using evidence and audience insight. Develop and deliver engaging content - including photography, audio, video and online material - and ensure it is evaluated effectively as part of campaign/communications delivery. Will create and manage OneHub website (SharePoint) and work with other comms colleagues across the council to ensure the best possible user experience. Act as a mentor for other members of the team, ensuring that colleagues are supported and gain skills in all communications disciplines. Qualifications: A degree and / or relevant professional qualification. Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Proven track record in leading on successful campaigns and communications projects specifically digital, media, marketing and internal communications. Experience of finding positive solutions to complex stakeholder communications challenges Experience of working in a political environment including briefing elected members. Experience of mentoring/supervising staff Proven experience of the preparation and presentation of sensitive information to the public. Skills in writing for the web to improve accessibility and search engine optimisation. Ability to lead corporate projects. Proficiency in core IT systems/processes e.g. web editing (Office365/SharePoint), social media platforms, basic video and image editing tools. Comms experience on the ERP/SAP implementations. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. “XR S Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please