Marketing & Content Officer

Are you a creative thinker passionate about impactful storytelling and turning ideas into engaging content? If you’re ready to use your skills to shape communications that make a difference to East Sussex residents, we’d love to hear from you.

You’ll work in the Communications Team, which spans marketing, social media, traditional media, design, and the web. Working with colleagues in all these areas and in social media, video, online content, print, PR, and the media to get results. As Marketing and Content Officer, you’ll work on a range of communications projects to help East Sussex residents find the information and services they need. You might help recruit more staff for key roles, publicise new features at our libraries, find imaginative ways to improve what people know about road safety, or make sure as many parents as possible know about holiday food and fun programmes for children.

Creativity, organisational skills, the ability to work independently, and exceptional attention to detail will be key as you create and deliver campaign activation plans, create engaging content for a variety of channels (social media, blogs, newsletters). You will manage both organic and paid content to help strengthen the impact of the council’s services, taking responsibility for delivering communications activity from brief through to delivery and evaluation, ensuring staff, members, businesses, and residents are kept informed.

It’s a busy and varied job with the camaraderie and support to help you develop and make the most of your skills.

• Develop and execute tactical content-driven communications work in support of agreed briefs, interpreting briefs, identifying opportunities, seeking clarification where required, and contributing ideas and proposals to achieve the best communication outcomes.

We are looking for candidates who:

• Multi-skilled across all forms of communications: from idea generation and creative pitching to writing, editing, and content creation for online and social platforms to identifying audiences and tracking and evaluating the impact of communications.
• Experience of writing for engaging content for a range of audiences and channels, including publishing for web and social media.
• Ability to communicate effectively to a range of people, including the ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English.
• Ability to plan, prioritise, and manage a varied workload effectively, meeting deadlines, and adapting to changing priorities.
• Ability to respond to a marketing or editorial brief with appropriate, creative, and audience-focused communications which meet the projects objectives and brief.