Job Description

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Worker Type: Hybrid Worker

Salary: Starting Salary is £36,363 (Level one) rising to £39,152 per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Location: Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG

We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here

About the role

Are you a dynamic, creative, and seasoned communications and marketing professional? We are expanding our ambitious Communications & Marketing team at Nottingham City Council and have up to four Communications and Marketing Officer roles available.

This is a great opportunity to join a personable, professional, and innovative team that sits at the heart of the Council, as we work to rebuild capacity and make a strategic impact across the organisation.

If you are confident, diplomatic, and have a passion for high-impact storytelling, we want to hear from you.

About You

As a Communications & Marketing Officer, you won’t just be a "cog in the machine." You will be a creative lead, responsible for developing and delivering insight-based campaigns that meet real business objectives.

While these roles work across all Council areas, two of our new recruits will initially take lead roles in our Resident Services department, designing and delivering engagement communication and campaigns, as well as designing infographics for Ward Councillors for performance oversight, and creating internal newsletters and communications for employees to highlight the work taking place in Resident Services.

One officer will support our Waste and Cleansing Services, you will work closely alongside Engagement and Behaviour Change Officersto develop targeted communications to engage residents and drive service improvements including graphic design work using Canva to help deliver city-wide recycling campaigns.

One officer will support our Greenspace Team - are you passionate about nature, community, and creating inspiring outdoor spaces? At Nottingham City Council, we work towards developing vibrant, sustainable, and inclusive green spaces that everyone in our city can enjoy.

Our Greenspace Team is at the heart of this transformation - designing and maintaining parks, nature reserves, and outdoor facilities that boost wellbeing, support biodiversity, and bring people together.

Your core responsibilities will include:

• Delivering creative promotional campaigns with a focus on digital advertising, web optimisation, and event marketing.
• Working on our busy media desk, managing local and national press enquiries, and writing high-quality news articles and press releases.
• Providing expert counsel to senior leaders, politicians, and external partners to protect and enhance the Council’s reputation.

Key skills and experience:

• Detailed knowledge of commercial communication and marketing techniques, online and offline, taking a client brief and reflecting it back
• Experience of the tactical execution of effective and persuasive projects and campaigns and working in partnership with internal and external agencies and large complex organisations
• Project management and organisational skills and experience of working under pressure, prioritising projects/work to meet tight deadlines, multi-tasking as appropriate.
• Excellent communicator (written and verbal), strong negotiator who thinks through the tone, method, channel and content that best suits the situation and audience, switching communication and influence style where needed.

You can find the job description for this post here

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.

For informal enquiries please contact Jamie O'Malley, Corporate Communications Manager, by telephone on 07932 379669 or by email at jamie.o'malley@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

Closing Date: 19th April 2026

Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Interviews will be held: w/c 27th April 2026

If you have any technical issues when completing your application, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.org.uk/support

By applying to this job, you agree to our Terms & Conditions.

Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.

In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:

• 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years’ service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
• Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
• Smart Working – to support your work life balance
• Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!

Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.

We particularly want to hear from you if you are from Minority Ethnic communities, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ community (LGBTQ+) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we’d like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.

We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.