Social Media Engagement Officer (Maidstone)

Location of Role: Flexible Site Working 

Advert Closing Date: 06/11/2026 

Starting Salary: £43,320.00 (pro-rata for part-time vacancies)

Part/Full Time: Full Time 

Contract Type: Permanent 

Working Pattern: Mon-Fri 

Weekend/Evening Working: No 

We are looking for a highly-motivated individual with a thorough understanding of the social media environment, ensuring content is tailored for different platforms, maintaining brand consistency and optimising engagement.

The post holder will have excellent written English, attention to detail and accuracy, and strong storytelling abilities. They will also have specialist expertise in visual design, with proven experience of using tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, or Canva – for example - to create visual content.

The post holder will have experience of social media data analysis, identifying short-term and long-time trends to inform effective communication with local communities.

The ideal candidate will also have experience of working in a fast-paced environment, ideally in a policing or public sector setting, as well as an excellent understanding of the risks and challenges to policing, and the wider context in which it operates.

Please provide evidence of the following in your application:

• Excellent written communication skills.
• Proven experience of content creation for a variety of social media platforms.
• Video production, photographic and editing expertise, including filming and postproduction.
• Experience of working collaboratively within a communications team or environment.
• Experience of social media data analysis.
• Independent decision making and risk management.

In addition, it would be helpful if you could evidence:

•  Experience of working in communications in a public sector or policing environment.

For further information about this role, please contact the Head of Digital Communications Richard Spillett 61413, Richard.Spillett@kent.police.uk, 07814766436

Kent Police offer incremental increases within this salary band, therefore the salary for this position will rise to a maximum of £49,167.00.

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Your application for this role will be shortlisted on the content you provide within the “reason for application” question, within the application form itself. CV’s, covering letters or attachments are not included in the shortlist. Within your “reason for application” answer, please refer to any experience, skills, and abilities you feel you have that will make you suitable for this role, based on the role criteria stated in the job advert or job description. Please provide as much detail as possible as insufficient content may mean you do not meet the shortlisting criteria, however please note this question is limited to 9000 characters and this system will count spaces and blank lines as characters. This count may differ from the Microsoft Word word count function therefore you may wish to use a different online character counter to check the characters used.

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.

If you’re not from the UK, you must be a resident in the UK and have lived here continuously for the last three years. You must also be free from restrictions with indefinite leave to remain. If you’re from the UK you must have lived here continuously for the last three years. This doesn’t apply to those serving abroad in the British Armed Forces.