Communication and Community Engagement Officer – Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
Job reference: REQ000337
22-Month Fixed-Term Contract
Are you passionate about helping Bedfordshire understand its hard to reach communities and improve communication and engagement with diverse communities? We are looking for a proactive and creative individual to support Bedfordshire Local Resilience Forum (BLRF) in mapping out and delivering effective communication and engagement for its communities.
This is an exciting opportunity at a time of increased national focus on building community resilience and emergency planning.
About the role
We need to understand more about our diverse communities, where to find them and their communication preferences. You will lead on mapping out current community engagement activity across Bedfordshire alongside community insight and research, understanding stakeholder contacts and where relationships lie, to then develop a targeted plan on key topics.
You will plan, deliver and co-ordinate communications activity to support BLRF objectives and ensure BLRF is supporting the ambitions of the UK Government Resilience framework to engage and work with communities and community groups on both acute and chronic risks, to enable them to become increasingly active partners in building local resilience.
You will also lead in developing relationships with communication teams across the county to support emergency and crisis communications planning and response and recovery communications after an emergency.
Key Responsibilities
Map and analyse current community engagement across the BLRF partnership, identifying best practices and gaps, with a focus on underrepresented groups. Develop processes and plans to strengthen engagement with these communities.
Develop a central knowledge database and bespoke toolkit for communication teams across BLRF.
Enhance message reception by directly engaging with community groups and partner agencies, collecting data on their reach and communication preferences.
Develop insight-led creative materials to support LRF communication and engagement activity and campaign plans, using a variety of tactics to be used across a range of platform.
Increase understanding of BLRF’s role and educate the public about preparedness by sharing opportunities across BLRF to engage with communities.
Maintain an active network and serve as the central contact for communication officers from key partners and stakeholders.
Next steps
If this role is of interest, please visit our website https://www.bedsfire.gov.uk/careers/search for further information and to make a formal application. We ask that you include your full career history and reference your skills and experience in line with the job description and person specification within your application and supporting statement.
The interview / selection process will take place on Tuesday 25 February 2025.
Salary: £34,314 per annum rising to £37,035 per annum
Contract type: Full Time
Closing date: February 17 2025
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