Hours: 37 per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Service Area: Sustainability
Department: Sustainable Communities
Bath & North East Somerset Council has made action on the climate and ecological emergency its top policy priority and aims to be a leading local authority in delivering on this commitment and on achieving a truly green recovery from the pandemic.
We are rapidly expanding our award-winning strategic team to enable us to rise to the scale of the challenge. We are seeking talented individuals who share our ambition to ensure a fair and green future for all our people and places.
The Digital Communications & Community Engagement Officer will play a vital role in the delivery of our wide-ranging community engagement and communications programme, a key part of our climate and ecological emergency action plans.
You will be working with and reaching out to all parts of our community, including the very active and dynamic groups in the city of Bath and across North East Somerset, as well as harder to reach and more vulnerable parts of the community, ensuring high quality and effective communication and engagement across all media, particularly digital.
This role offers the opportunity for blended working and the post-holder will be expected to spend part of their week working from home. Office time will be mainly spent in our award-winning, modern Civic Centre in Keynsham, halfway between Bath and Bristol, easily accessible on public transport, with a train station 5 minutes’ walk away.
For more information on our Climate Emergency Work, please visit this link to our webpage: https://www.bathnes.gov.uk/climate-emergency
Interview date: 04/08/2021
Interested to find out more?
If you are interested in this post and require more details after reading the job description or just to chat through the role and what’s involved, please contact Jane Wildblood on Jane_Wildblood@BATHNES.GOV.UK.
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As an equal opportunities employer, Bath & North East Somerset Council is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and is opposed to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.
Please note the Council operates a policy of prior consideration for roles for any individual on the Council’s at risk register. This means should a redeployee express an interest in this role, providing they meet the essential criteria for the role, they will be interviewed before any shortlisting or interviewing of external candidates.