WANTED: A storyteller, with a calm head, an open heart, at ease with complexity, excited by strategy and willing to listen and learn from lived experience. Our world’s changing, our city’s evolving. Are you ready for the best communications role you’ll ever have?
If you are a Communications and Engagement leader who wants to get under the skin of what it means to live in York, who is keen to understand the issues that matter to the whole community and who has the empathy and humility to listen and learn from all our residents, businesses, and partners, we want to hear from you.
No two days are the same working for the most desirable city in the UK, and the least affordable outside of London. You will speak up for those who can’t always speak for themselves, reduce complex information into relatable content, share successes, prepare residents for the changes ahead and find better ways to have meaningful conversations with residents, businesses, and partners, whilst balancing immediate communications priorities with longer term strategies to improve the lives of the communities we serve.
This role will appeal to an ambitious, strategic, and forward-thinking Communications leader who is familiar with forming collaborative partnerships with many different stakeholders and who understands how to navigate within a political landscape that invites scrutiny.
As Head of Communications and Eng...