PCC Communications Assistant (Maidstone)

Location of Role: Maidstone/Home Based 

Advert Closing Date: 29/10/2024 

Starting Salary: £29,634.00 (pro-rata for part-time vacancies)

Part/Full Time: Full Time 

Contract Type: Permanent 

Working Pattern: Mon-Fri 

Weekend/Evening Working: No 

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Kent, Matthew Scott, wants to expand and improve his presence, and that of the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, across all forms of social media and through his website.

He is seeking a confident, well-organised individual, who is a skilful communicator in all situations, both with the public and with colleagues.  You will be expected to use these skills to assist with arranging, promoting and attending events with key stakeholders.

You will have a proven track record of effective on-line editing skills, the ability to use content management systems as well as being able to work under pressure in a fast-moving environment.  You will be comfortable drafting copy for a range of channels, and an excellent standard of written English is vital. 

Your work will be split between home, the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner in Maidstone, and events across the county. 

This role is subject to vetting, and is also ‘politically restricted’ as per the Local Government and Housing Act 1989.

For more information please e-mail contactyourpcc@kent.police.uk, for the attention of Lesley Ashmall. 

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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.

Depending on your current vetting level and security clearances, you may be required to complete additional vetting information during the recruitment process.

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 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.