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Job details
Job title: Communications & Marketing Assistant
Job reference: 000010975
Date posted: 09/04/2025
Application closing date: 27/04/2025
Working Pattern: Full time
Salary Grade: D £25,584 - £26,409 a year
Contractual hours: 37
Basis: Full time
Job category/type: Communications / PR
Directorate: Chief Executives
Hours: 37 hours a week
Contract Type: Fixed Term – Up to 31 March 2027
Location: Hybrid - The Council House/Home Working
We’re looking for a dynamic and creative individual to join our Communications & Marketing team. Whilst some experience is essential, this is a fantastic opportunity to develop and refine your communications and marketing skills as part of a larger, multi-discipline team. You'll work across the team assisting in delivery of the full communications and marketing mix - including website content management, social media, direct communications, marketing campaigns, advertising, PR & media and design. You’ll be organised, customer-focussed with a creative outlook, plenty of initiative and enthusiasm. We’re excited to meet you and welcome you to the team.
Who We Are
Here at Derby City Council, we’re dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities.
What We Offer
You too could be part of something brilliant by becoming a colleague at Derby City Council; in addition to making a difference to the lives of people across the city, you’ll also receive:
1. Flexible work/life balance scheme (depending on your role)
2. Hybrid working (depending on your role)
3. Modern office environment (depending on your job location)
4. Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations
5. 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years' service), plus bank holidays (depending on contract)
6. Local Government Pension Scheme (depending on contract)
7. Team Derby Rewards – retail and leisure discounts
8. Tusker Car Benefit Scheme
9. Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training
10. Employee Assistance Programmes & Support
11. Access to our Equality Employee Networks – LGBTQ+, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Employee Support Network
12. Support for colleagues who are carers
Next Steps
If you would like to apply for this vacancy, please submit an application via the Derby City Council website. The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on Monday 21st April 2024. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.
Important Information
Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below. All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job. Before you complete your application form please read our guidance on filling in your application form. Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification. Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job. We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for. Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality.
If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK - 18001 01332 640 844) or at recruitmentteam@derby.gov.uk. Please see Job Description here. Please see Person Specification here.
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