Senior Communications Officer in Portsmouth

We’re VIVID! – We offer a vibrant, friendly, inclusive culture that supports, develops and attracts the best people! We’re recruiting for a Senior Communications Officer to join our team! Contractually based out of our Portsmouth office, this is a full-time permanent position working 37 hours per week with a minimum of 20% of this to be office-based working to promote collaboration and team working.

Want to know what we can offer you?

• 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with the opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
• A productivity-related bonus scheme to enhance your take-home
• A generous contributory pension of 6%. We’ll match employee contributions between 7% and 10%
• Life assurance paid at x 3 annual salary
• Private medical insurance
• Health care cash plan called Medicash
• Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
• Access to counselling, legal and financial information
• Electric car scheme
• Huge variety of in-house & e-learning courses and a range of coaching and mentoring programmes

Here’s the facts about the role:

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced communications professional to join VIVID as a Senior Communications Officer. Working closely with the Communications Manager, you’ll play a key role in delivering engaging internal and external communications that supports organisational priorities, and connects with customers, colleagues and stakeholders. From creating compelling content and helping to manage digital channels to supporting media relations and campaigns, you will help ensure communications are impactful, audience-focused and aligned with the organisation's values and strategic objectives.

As part of a collaborative communications team, you will create high-quality content across a variety of channels including external websites, our intranet, social media, newsletters, corporate publications and employee communications. You'll also help identify positive stories, develop press releases, secure media coverage and help manage reactive media enquiries to help protect and enhance VIVID's reputation. This is a varied and hands-on role offering the opportunity to make a real difference within a driven organisation serving communities across the south of England.

As the ideal candidate, you’ll be an experienced communications or PR professional with plenty of experience writing engaging and accurate content for a range of communication channels and audiences. You’ll bring knowledge of Canva and Adobe Creative and will have experience in content creation and digital marketing, as well as the ability to proofread to a high standard. You have the knowledge and skills to use content management systems, email marketing platforms and run online and in-person events. Knowledge of the housing sector would be advantageous, as would experience working in a large, multi-site organisation, however these are not essential. Ultimately, you’ll be self-motivated, organised and adaptable, and will thrive in a fast-paced communications environment where you’ll need to manage multiple priorities effectively.