Role: Communications Officer – Multiple Roles
Salary: Grade G , £33,143-£36,363 a year (pay award pending)
Location: Council House
Hours: 37 hours a week (Part time considered)
Closing Date: 10 August 2026
Contract Type: Fixed term between 1 – 3 years
We’re looking for experienced communications professionals to join our ambitious Communications and Marketing team.
This is a great opportunity for candidates with strong backgrounds in communications and PR, who are confident, diplomatic and enthusiastic.
As one of our Communications Officers, you’ll be responsible for developing and delivering insight-based, creative promotional communication and marketing campaigns, that deliver against our business objectives. You will also work on the Council’s busy media desk, liaising and working closely with local and national press. Good PR skills, a strong news sense, and experience of writing news articles, press releases, statements and other media content is essential, as well as experience of working with and managing media relations. An interest, and experience, in filming and editing short form video is useful. You’ll also work across our internal communications channels to keep our colleagues up to date.
We’re an extremely busy team, but we think our people are some of the best out there! The team is personable, professional, and innovative, and we want our new Communications Officers to mirror those qualities.
As a unitary authority, Derby City Council is responsible for delivering the full range of council services to more than 274,000 residents, so you could be working across a wide range of campaigns or more focused on a particular service area. With Local Government Reorganisation on the horizon, one role would suit someone who’ll relish the challenge of working with our neighbouring councils to explain what it all means. Another role will be focused on bringing together communications for our children and families services in line with the Families First programme.
If you’re customer-focused with a creative outlook, possess a wide range of skills and experience across communications and marketing with plenty of initiative and enthusiasm, we’d be excited to meet you and welcome you to the team.
The roles may include very occasional weekend and evening working.
Who We Are
Here at Derby City Council, we’re dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities. Find out more about what it’s like to work for us.
What We Offer
You too could be part of something brilliant by becoming a colleague at Derby City Council; in addition to making a difference to the lives of people across the city, you’ll also receive:
- Flexible work/life balance scheme
- Hybrid working
- Modern office environment
- Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations
- 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years' service), plus bank holidays
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Team Derby Rewards – retail and leisure discounts
- Tusker Car Benefit Scheme
- Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training
- Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Calendar and Support
- Access to our Equality Employee Networks – LGBTQ+, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Employee Support Network and Neurodiversity Network
- Support for colleagues who are carers
Next Steps
If you would like to apply for this vacancy via an application form, please submit an application via theDerby City Council website.
The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on 2 August 2026. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.
If you would prefer to apply for this job using your CV, then please download the attached Declaration Form and send it to [email protected] along with your CV and cover letter. Without a completed declaration form, your application will not be accepted. We also encourage you to download the Equalities Form and return this to [email protected], however this is optional and will not affect your application.
Important Information
Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.
All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.
Before you complete your application form please read our guidance on filling in your application form.
Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.
Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.
We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.
Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality.
If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK - 18001 01332 640 844) or at [email protected]. https://www.derby.gov.uk/signing-service/
