Campaigns and Marketing Officer

Full Time, Fixed Term until 31 March 2027. Role available immediately. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced campaigns, marketing, and communications professional to join Bristol City Council’s innovative Policy, Strategy and Communications team. Every day will bring new and exciting challenges. You will be helping develop and deliver an engaging and creative programme of activity through a broad spectrum of communications disciplines including marketing, behaviour change campaigns, media relations, and social media, all while supporting the team to build relationships with senior internal clients and external partners.

We always aim to improve how we do things and in your role you will be contributing to continually improving our campaigns and looking for new, effective marketing and communications solutions to support our priorities while evaluating the effectiveness of our work. You will play a key role in telling our city’s story, using your communications and marketing expertise to inform and engage the people of Bristol. Everything we do is designed to help improve the lives of Bristol’s residents. Some of our flagship campaigns include the recruitment of much-needed social workers, offering information, advice and help to all families in Bristol through our Family Hubs, driving behaviour change to improve public health or to reduce our carbon footprint, and updating residents about investment in fire and building safety features for some of our council housing blocks.

You will have excellent verbal and written communication and the ability to produce content for online and offline audiences, demonstrating a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail. You’ll also be well-organised and flexible, with the ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure. With excellent interpersonal skills, you will be able to coordinate the creation of communications and marketing content, advise senior colleagues on communications approaches, and manage relationships with partners both inside and outside the council. Underpinning your skills will be a degree or relevant equivalent industry or vocational qualification, and/or significant experience of working in a marketing or communications role.

Working within a fast-paced, supportive, collaborative environment, this is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to take their next steps in a career in marketing and campaigns.

Why Bristol City Council? At Bristol City Council, we go the extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation. For most of our roles, hybrid working arrangements are available, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice – mixing both home and office working. Join us and you’ll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you’ll be working in a supportive environment where you’ll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.

How do I apply? To be shortlisted for an interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application. If we receive high numbers of applications, we may shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application. For permanent Bristol City Council employees, this post will be a secondment. For employees who are currently on a fixed term contract with Bristol City Council, the secondment must not extend beyond the end of the fixed term period to ensure there is a substantive post to return to. If you are currently a casual worker or a member of an employment agency (currently working with Bristol City Council) this post will be a fixed term contract.

We’re a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We’ll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career. Interviews are intended to take place in person at City Hall, Bristol, but alternative arrangements can be made if required. We are also very happy to accommodate requests for reasonable adjustments to make the interview accessible to everyone.

At Bristol City Council, we value having a workforce as diverse as the city we serve. We therefore welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. Appointments will be made on merit.