Communications Officer (Social Media and Content) – Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service

This role is all about crafting engaging, innovative, and impactful content—whether that’s through compelling writing, striking photography, or engaging video production. You will be responsible for translating complex operational and organisational information into clear, accessible, and engaging content across a range of internal and external platforms.

You will play a key role in shaping our digital presence, keeping up with the latest social media trends, and ensuring our campaigns resonate with diverse audiences.

Key Responsibilities
Create insight-led materials using a variety of tactics across multiple platforms to support organisational objectives.
Collaborate with the Senior Communications Officer (External) to plan, develop and evaluate campaigns.
Manage all social media platforms and community engagement tools, including community ventures like NextDoor and email marketing platform.
Produce photography, video and visual products, including designing, animating, branding, scripting, storyboarding and editing.
Design simple corporate graphics and marketing materials, ensuring brand consistency and effectiveness.
Act as a brand guardian, managing visual assets and ensuring diverse and inclusive representation.
To pro-actively gain knowledge from operational colleagues and Translate into compelling stories and creative content for engagement.
Support communications during major incidents, including media handling and stakeholder briefings, as part of an on-call rota.
Assist in planning and delivering corporate events, awards, open days and staff engagement activities.

You will have:
GCSEs, or equivalent qualification or equivalent experience in one of the following:
Public relations, media communications or marketing
– Photography/videography
– English
– Significant experience using social media proficiently such as, Facebook, X, Flickr, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, Instagram and NextDoor.
– Some experience creating multi-platform content and campaigns for a range of audiences using insight, industry best practice and evaluation.
– Some experience content creation, photography, videography, digital communications and social media and the ability to edit using design applications.
– High level of creativity and ability to demonstrate where this has been used to get messages across to different audiences, particularly external audiences.
– Understanding and interpreting information, rewriting complex or technical/management information into plain English. Ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English.
– Good working knowledge of Microsoft 365, especially Sharepoint, Teams, Outlook, and other M365 apps that support internal communication (Viva Engage, Sway etc) and design applications such as Canva and Adobe.
– Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues from all areas of the organisation

Interview Monday 24 Feb 2025

Salary: £31,067 per annum rising to £33,366 per annum (plus an additional allowance for on-call rota)

Contract type: Full Time

Closing date: February 17 2025

Post a job for £500

Our jobs attract over 15,000 page views per month. You can advertise a job on the NFCC website for 30 days

Submit a Job

Members FREE job posting

Members of NFCC can advertise jobs for FREE

Submit a Job