Are you a creative communications professional looking to work with an organisation helping people and building sustainable communities?

If so, the exciting and rewarding role of Communications Officer (External) with Link is the ideal opportunity to let your skills shine!

We’re offering a salary of between £34,606.00 to £43,123.00 (depending on experience), an excellent benefits package (good pension and healthcare benefits) and flexible working.

The ideal candidate will have outstanding communications skills and experience in delivering impactful campaigns and projects for a range of audiences.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established team where your passion, ideas and experience will contribute meaningfully to how we communicate with our customers.

If this sounds like something you would be a good match we’d be delighted to hear from you.

The role

The jobholder will lead on aspects of and contribute to the delivery of a high-quality external communications service, ensuring key organisational messages and “good news” stories are delivered effectively. This job will have key responsibility to make best use of digital and social media platforms.

At Link, people are at the heart of everything we do. Our people have made our award-winning social enterprise the success it is today and as it continues to grow, we want them to be the best they can be and to reach their potential.

About you

You will have experience of working in a communications or marketing role and of developing positive news stories across a range of media. You will have demonstratable knowledge of social media and experience of maintaining social media accounts for business use.

The successful candidate will have led on producing newsletters and other publicity material and involvement in arranging events along with experience of producing photography and video materials

You will have strong numeracy and literacy skills, with the ability to write clearly and concisely for a range of audiences combined with being computer literate with demonstrable experience of Microsoft applications such as Word and Excel.

Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to develop effective relationships with colleagues and external organisations, excellent organisational and time management skills combined with having a customer focused approach to service delivery and being self-motivated and able to work on own initiative are also essential.

In return you will be offered the opportunity to enhance your skills and knowledge through employee training and development. You can expect to work in a supportive, trusting and transparent working environment, with the autonomy to offer creative and innovative solutions whilst maintaining Link’ s values; Responsibility, Empathy, Social Impact, Participate, Equality, Challenge and Transparency.

For further information on the main position accountabilities and a comprehensive list of the essential and desirable criteria required for this post, please refer to the Job Specification in the Job information Pack above.

What’s in it for you?

As an Investor in People, we strive for continuous improvement through the management and growth of our staff, offering a wide range of training and development opportunities.

As a Link employee, you'll likely benefit from the following:

• Competitive salary, reviewed annually, and opportunity for annual performance related salary increases and discretionary non-consolidated pay awards subject to terms of the scheme
• 35 days’ holiday per year (inclusive of public holidays) pro rata plus an additional 1 day’s pro rata holiday per year after 1 years’ service up to a maximum of 40 days per year
• Opportunity to buy and sell holiday days
• Enhanced company sick and family friendly pay
• Access to paid qualifications and a wide range of learning and development opportunities and funded professional membership
• Defined contribution pension with matched generous employer pension contributions plus salary exchange and additional voluntary contribution options
• Access to an Electric vehicle leasing scheme, subject to the terms of the scheme
• Life assurance scheme providing death in service benefits to named beneficiaries
• Healthcare cash plan for employees (and dependents) to support health and wellbeing plus discounts on shopping, restaurants and other services
• Employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate household dependants to support health, mental and financial well-being
• Annual flu vaccination
• Access to a savings and borrowing scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Travel season/travel ticket loan and much more!

For a full list of benefits available to employees, please see the following link - linkhousing.org.uk/what-we-do/work-for-us

You will work with colleagues who offer support to ensure our customers' expectations are met. In return, we are looking for applications from people who will contribute to our aims and work to the highest professional standards.

This post is subject to Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme registration.