Campaigns and Partnerships Manager (Headquarters, Chelmsford)

Location of Role: Chelmsford 

Advert Closing Date: 23/10/2024 

Starting Salary: £45,546.00 (pro-rata for part-time vacancies)

Part/Full Time: Full Time 

Contract Type: Permanent 

Working Pattern: Mon-Fri 

Weekend/Evening Working: No 

The award-winning – and  friendly - Essex Police Media and Communications Department is looking for an enthusiastic, creative, and collaborative individual to join our Campaigns, Events and Partnership Team.

As Campaigns and Partnerships Manager, you’ll need to be experienced in leading a team to deliver impactful marketing, communications and behaviour-change campaigns that make all our communities safer.

You will have experience turning brilliant storytelling into long-term campaigns that help the people you work alongside to catch criminals and protect our region. You will be ready to join a team of former news journalists, creative marketeers, employee engagement experts and technically brilliant videographers, photographers and graphic designers who turn the very best of their skills to cutting crime in one of the biggest police forces in the UK.

You’ll be promoting the great work of Essex Police, which is at record strength after years of sustained investment and which is rarely out of the news. By working closely with our partners in national and local businesses, volunteer networks and across policing in the UK and sometimes overseas, you’ll find opportunities to highlight how Essex Police works to protect and serve the county every day; over 75% of people in our county say the force – your future colleagues – do an excellent or good job. (Survey results carried out independently by an external provider, sample size over 7,000 respondents per annum.)

We need capable communicator with at least 3-5 years’ experience in a similar role.

If you are a creative leader in your field, have strong management skills and you want to make a real difference to urban, rural, coastal and business communities, we want to hear from you.

You will have experience of creating and delivering innovative campaigns across a range of platforms. You’ll run everything - from research and target audience insights and creative concept through to channel plan and implementation and, most importantly, your evaluation.

You will develop Essex Police’s public affairs position on existing or emerging issues and significant changes on legislation. These positions will be aligned to the campaigns you will be leading on, so that you don’t just tell great stories…you tell stories that truly connect and change lives for the better, whether it’s speaking up for victims of domestic abuse, preventing accidents on our roads or helping to stop organised crime gangs in their tracks.

Although you’ll be based at our Chelmsford HQ, this role can require travel around the beautiful Essex countryside and coastal areas or to and from our three cities, so access to a vehicle is desirable.

In your application we will be looking for you to demonstrate:

• 3-5 years’ experience in a previous marketing, PR or communications management role.
• Experience of planning, creating, delivering, and evaluating campaigns and events. 
• Strong partnership working skills.

It would also be helpful if you could evidence:

• A recognised qualification in journalism, PR, marketing, or campaigns.
• Public affairs knowledge or experience, so you can help shape the Essex Police narrative for existing and emerging issues.

For more information please contact Pru Kingham, Campaigns, Events and Partnerships Manager, by email: pru.kingham@essex.police.uk

Essex Police offer incremental increases within this salary band, therefore the salary for this position will rise to a maximum of £48,966.00.

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Your application is shortlisted on the content provided within the 'reason for application' section, which is limited to 9000 characters. Within your answer please refer to the criteria stated in this job advert and include any experience, skills and abilities you feel you have that will make you suitable for the role. Please ensure you provide as much detail as possible as insufficient information may mean that you do not meet the shortlisting criteria. 

All of our posts require a level of vetting and security clearance.  During the recruitment process you will be sent vetting information forms to complete. 

Kent Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status.

Please let us know if you require extra support at any stage of the application process, or for further information regarding this position, please email us at recruitment.business.services@ecis.police.uk stating ‘Application Support and Adjustments’ in the title of your email. Alternatively, you can call us on 01245 452833.

Where appropriate we will make adjustments to the selection process, working arrangements and/or the working environment provided it is reasonable in all the circumstances to do so.

This post is open to:

• British Citizens
• Members of a European Economic Area (EEA) state who hold settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme.  
• Commonwealth citizens or foreign nationals (who are not British citizens or European Economic Area (EEA) state members) who have leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom for an indefinite period that is free from restrictions.

All applicants (except those who have been serving abroad with the British Armed Forces) must have lived in the UK continuously for the past three years.

Essex Police and Kent Police are an equal opportunities employer. Communications may be recorded for monitoring purposes.