Senior Digital Communications Officer (Maternity Cover)

Private Secretary’s Office
Royal Communications
Buckingham Palace
Fixed Term Contract
October 2021
October 2022
c.£38,000 per annum, dependent on experience
37.5 per week

It's knowing your content will be viewed by millions

It's finding new ways to maintain The Queen's presence on the world stage. This is what makes working for the Royal Household exceptional.

The role of Royal Communications is to engage a worldwide audience with the public role and work of The Royal Family. Joining this fast-paced and dynamic team, your challenge will be to manage and oversee the daily news flow on digital and social networking platforms, as well as play a key part in digital projects.

Working as part of a small team of digital media specialists alongside the Royal Communications press team, you'll create and manage the content for social networking and digital platforms, including planning, filming and editing videos, as well as researching and writing feature articles.

Covering varied Royal activities, events and engagements, you’ll make sure our digital channels consistently spark interest and reach a range of audiences.

With an eye to the future, you'll help hone and shape our digital communications through analytics, monitoring and exploring new technologies.

The reaction to our work is always high-profile, and so reputation and impact will be at the forefront of all you do. And having your work shared around the world will be the biggest reward.

Ideally educated to degree level or equivalent, with previous experience of managing websites and delivering successful digital communications and projects, preferably in a high-profile environment, you're the expert we need.

With experience of creating, publishing and coordinating digital and social media content on multiple channels, you'll be confident using a range of content management systems, including Premier Pro or Final Cut Pro, photoshop and social media platforms and analytics tools.

What's more, you'll know how to maximise their benefits and minimise risks. Abreast of the latest digital communication developments, you'll put forward and support new ideas to increase our presence on social platforms.

Innovative and with creative flair, you'll also have accurate and compelling written and editorial skills, with expertise in designing digital content for different audience groups, purpose and formats. 

You'll need good photography skills with experience producing live social media content, and video production skills would be ideal.

With experience of managing the work of others, you’ll also have lots of initiative, a flexible approach, and be comfortable managing a varied proactive and reactive workload.

Your excellent planning skills, and ability to quickly respond to changing priorities, mean that you're able to deliver in a fast-paced and deadline driven environment. 

A natural communicator with a genuine user focus, you're self-assured liaising effectively with a broad spectrum of people on a daily basis. And you'll enjoy working within a small, supportive team.

This is your opportunity to use your digital expertise to deliver the exceptional.

Vacancy Closing Date: 01/09/2021, 23:55

This vacancy is closed to applications.