Senior Communications Officer
23 days ago
Crewe
Senior Communications Officer (Change & Transformation) Location: North West Contract: 12-week initial contract Rate: £26.86 per hour (Umbrella) Overview A large local authority is seeking a Senior Communications Officer to lead strategic communications supporting a major transformation and improvement programme. The role will shape the organisation’s narrative, strengthen reputation, and ensure clear, consistent messaging across staff, members, partners and residents during a significant period of change. Key Responsibilities • Lead delivery of a portfolio-wide communications and engagement strategy, • Develop and maintain a clear transformation narrative across all channels, • Ensure consistent messaging across programmes, projects and services, • Advise senior leaders on reputational risk and communications approach, • Deliver multi-channel campaigns including internal comms, digital and video, • Produce briefings, toolkits, FAQs and organisation-wide updates, • Support alignment of communications across services and reduce duplication, • Line manage and develop two communications professionals, • Monitor and evaluate campaign effectiveness About You • Strong experience in strategic communications within a complex organisation, • Background in transformation or corporate communications, • Confident advising senior stakeholders in politically sensitive environments, • Excellent writing, storytelling and stakeholder engagement skills, • Experience managing reputational risk and crisis communications, • Previous line management experience