Assistant Communications Officer

Location: Flexible (Travelling to Gray's Inn Road Office in Central London is required once a month)

We are recruiting for the role of Assistant Communications Officer, within our communications team covering work across the organisation. We trust and empower colleagues to work in a hybrid way, providing the resources, equipment, and support, so that individually and collectively, we can be the voice of children and young people when the family court makes critical decisions about their futures.

Our teams work flexibly and remotely; your proximity to the office doesn’t always have to be a critical consideration. Travelling to our Central London office in Gray's Inn Road office is required once a month and the postholder may be required to travel to other locations occasionally to attend key events and meetings, visit external stakeholders, training events or undertake site visits.

We are a diverse, inclusive organisation that is a safe space for colleagues with shared aspects of identity and lived experience, which helps ensure we provide a service that promotes the diversity and uniqueness of children and families from all backgrounds. We especially welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds as we strive to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity of the children and families we work with.

We provide extensive wellbeing support for colleagues, as well as excellent benefits, all of which we hope encourages you to join us.

You will support the delivery of core communications services across the four Government Communication Service (GCS) competencies of Insight; Ideas; Implementation; and Impact with exposure to all four core GCS disciplines of Press and Media; Digital; Marketing and Campaigns; and Internal Communications.

As an Assistant Communications Officer you will be expected to:

• Provide practical advice, help and support in the delivery of Cafcass Communications campaigns with a particular focus on the internal communication activity but also supporting external communication activity.
• Provide support to the Communications team with key administrative, operational and strategic work including research, co-ordination of communication activities and drafting of content.
• Undertake specific project and communications work as directed, including planning campaigns, research activities, analysing and presenting information, liaison with internal and external stakeholders and arranging meetings and briefings.

You will be required to present information in a confident and professional manner.

The above is just a flavour of what the role entails and if you’re thinking of applying, we encourage you to read the full Job Description (which is available prior to applying) to gain a better understanding.

What we’re looking for:

• Practical experience of working in a position within a professional environment or in a Communications environment, for example, a news, digital, design, print or publishing environment and or working in an internal/external stakeholder engagement environment.
• Excellent oral and writing skills with an understanding of what makes news – both inside and outside of Cafcass and capable of obtaining and writing up accurate and engaging copy for publication.
• A collaborative team worker who can build positive relationships and work effectively across boundaries and achieve results through others.

If and when you are ready to apply, our application process is straightforward and quick to complete. You don’t need to complete your application in a single visit; you can start it and come back and amend your responses/update your CV, just make sure you come back before the closing date to submit.

Closing Date: Wednesday, 26th March 2025.

Telephone Interview: 2nd & 4th April 2025.

Panel Interview: 14th & 16th April 2025 (Assessment required).

To apply, please visit our website via the button below.

We understand that starting a new role is a big decision, and you may require further information before applying. You can find out more about the role in the Job Description and there is a wealth of information about Cafcass on our Cafcass Careers page.

If you wish to speak with a member of the team about more specific information you can contact from our HR Resourcing team, providing your contact information and best times/methods to get hold of you. Whilst we will always try and respond quickly, we wouldn’t want you to miss the closing date before we were able to get back to you. If this is the case, we recommend you apply anyway and ask any questions as part of your application.

Finally, in anticipation of your application being successful, you might want to read about the offer and pre-employment checks process. As part of your application you can highlight any concerns or questions about the pre-employment checks and we encourage all applicants to do so, safe in the knowledge such information will not be shared with individuals involved in the selection process.

We look forward to hearing from you.