Digital Content Creator

The Corporate Communications team at Kent Police is seeking an experienced Digital Content Creator to work in a team that consists of individuals with specialist skills including journalism, marketing, graphic design, videography, internal communications, web development and social media.

The Digital Content Creator will complement the existing team by working collaboratively across the department and wider force to elevate strategic work using the latest trends and technologies. The role will include sourcing, producing, and publishing coordinated digital content on Kent Police’s internal and external communications channels, bringing an enhanced skill set to the department and an innovative approach to publicity.

Through the creation of video and infographics, that keep pace with modern communication trends, the role priority will be to proactively promote good policing work, support marketing strategies in line with force priorities, and help build trust and confidence in the community.

We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic individual who will bring their extensive skills and experience to grow the force’s social media engagement through the rapid use of positive, proactive video content and infographics. We want someone with an influencer approach who can target a large element of the public who now only consume news digitally, including young people and young adults.

Application Requirements:

Please provide evidence of the following in your application:

• Excellent written communication skills
• Expertise in visual design including video, photography and infographics
• Social media content planning and engagement
• Risk management
• Internal consultancy
• Management experience

Kent Police offer incremental increases within this salary band, therefore the salary for this position will rise to a maximum of £54,597.00.

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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 [email protected] 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.

Essex Police and Kent Police are an equal opportunities employer. Communications may be recorded for monitoring purposes.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion are central to the values of our organisation. At Essex Police we value and embrace the unique experiences, identities and abilities that each of us bring to our roles. We strive to empower everyone to bring their authentic self openly and safely to work.

Through the dedicated commitment of our support networks, DE&I team and wider HR departments, we are on a journey to embed our DE&I commitments, ensuring Essex Police is an employer of choice; where everyone feels included.