Place Marketing and Business Development Officer NEW Bury Council Posted yesterday Bury £34,314[...]

It’s an exciting time across the townships of Bury with spades in the ground, creating new spaces for people and businesses and more plans in the pipeline. This is a role for a creative individual to tell the story of Place, to share exciting developments and opportunities that are making our Borough a destination for investors, businesses, and visitors. You will sit within the Place Directorate, a broad team striving to make Bury a great place to live, work and play.

Here are the key expectations of this exciting role:

• Lead on creating engaging, educational, and entertaining content with a positive message for a wide range of marketing platforms, promoting Bury to its residents, businesses, visitors and inward investors.
• Positively highlighting key regeneration developments, promoting the latest news stories, details of consultations, investment opportunities and initiatives within the Place Directorate and across other directorates and partnerships.
• Work across council services and related partner organisations to provide interesting content on a weekly basis.

This post offers the opportunity to gain the knowledge, skills and experience to progress and develop an exciting career in place branding and marketing. You will work with colleagues across connected areas including regeneration, policy, adult skills provision, health and wellbeing, and business engagement.

So, if you have a creative passion for promoting place and creating a brand we can all be proud of, this could be the role for you.

The nitty gritty: Attendance at early morning and evening meetings will be required, so you will need to be flexible and committed to working outside normal office hours. Hours of work are 37 per week and an extended flexi-time scheme is in operation.

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment may be subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service. In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted. As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances, empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensures they grow up in the best possible way.

Benefits of working for Bury Council: We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements. We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises, values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.

Next steps: For an informal chat regarding the role please contact Tracey Flynn on 0161 253 6040 or email t.flynn@bury.gov.uk. Interviews will be held on w/c 7th July 2025.