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