About the role
We are recruiting for three exciting Communications Advisor roles. If you have a particular area of interest or a preferred role, please make this clear in your supporting statement.
Role 1 – Communications Advisor (Programme Communications)
Purpose: Deliver communications that support the Families First Programme, ensuring clear, consistent and timely messaging across all workstreams.
Key responsibilities
- Develop and deliver the Families First Communications Plan.
- Produce high-quality communications materials, including briefings, newsletters, presentations, FAQs and staff updates.
- Create and maintain digital content for programme communication channels, including intranet pages, web content and other approved digital platforms.
- Coordinate internal communications across programme workstreams.
- Develop communications to support programme pilots and implementation.
- Ensure consistent messaging and branding across all programme communications.
- Prepare communication products for programme boards, managers and staff.
- Support the communications requirements for engagement events, workshops and stakeholder sessions by producing promotional materials, presentations and follow-up communications (event planning and logistics to be led by programme teams).
- Liaise with Corporate Communications where wider corporate communications support is required.
Role 2 – Communications Advisor (Engagement & Change)
Purpose: Lead stakeholder engagement communications to support implementation of the Families First reforms.
Key responsibilities
- Develop and coordinate the Families First Engagement Plan.
- Coordinate communications to support workforce, partner and stakeholder engagement.
- Produce digital and printed communications to support engagement activities, consultations and service change.
- Develop stakeholder communication plans for programme workstreams.
- Support programme teams with the communications aspects of engagement events and workshops, including invitations, briefings, presentations and follow-up communications (event management and delivery to be undertaken by programme leads).
- Gather and analyse stakeholder feedback to inform communications and engagement activity.
- Support change communications to help services understand and adopt new ways of working.
- Work collaboratively with Programme Managers and Corporate Communications to ensure communications and engagement activity is coordinated and effective.
Role 3 - Communications Advisor (Highways)
Highways is one of the Council’s most visible services and remains a significant priority for our communities. It is also a significant reputational risk area, given our aging (and for many years underfunded) highways network.
At the direction of Council Leaders, £60 million additional local investment has been made into highways maintenance and resurfacing on top of over £30m government road repair funding since 2024. This work provides an important opportunity to show residents how the Council is responding to resident and businesses concerns, which have increased significantly since winter 2025/26.
Driving Change will provide a clear campaign for communicating highways maintenance and investment work. It will demonstrate that highways is a key statutory Council priority, show visible progress and help communities understand what is happening in their local area.
A dedicated SO1 Communications Adviser is needed to increase tactical communication messaging and outputs by producing a consistent flow of compelling content. The role will identify strong stories from across the highways programme and turn technical information, delivery updates and community feedback into clear and engaging communication pieces.
The adviser will work across social media, web, newsletters, media, internal communications and Member channels. Content will include written stories, photography, short videos, graphics, interviews and before and after examples of completed highways work.
A particular focus will be hyperlocal communications. The role will create content about individual roads, streets, villages, towns and wards, helping residents see how investment is making a difference in their own communities feeding back how the Council has listened and acted.
This dedicated capacity will make highways activity more visible, strengthen public understanding and support confidence in the Council’s approach. It will also enable communications to be better planned, targeted and more proactive. Additionally, it will also help with the timeliness of our outputs by enabling comms outputs to be more closely aligned with service delivery works.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact harriet.yarnold@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
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