Communications Officer

Location: Wembley, London

Duration: Permanent

Salary: Â£39,051 per annum

About Network Homes

We are a charitable housing association driven by social objectives to make a positive impact on the places we work in, for the long-term. We have an ambition to build a thousand new homes a year, deliver first class customer service and strengthen our residents trust in us as a landlord.

We own and manage over 20,000 homes across London, Hertfordshire and the South East and are a sector leader amongst the G15 group of London’s largest housing associations. We fundamentally believe in the importance to everyone of a safe, secure, and decent home.

We foster a positive working culture because we’re passionate about our people.  Recognised as a Sunday Times 100 Employer in 2019 we have outstanding levels of engagement amongst our people. And we’re focused on becoming even smarter, better, faster, and stronger with our digital transformation programme as we look forward to our recent move into our brand new, modern, stylish offices which we moved into in July 2020.

Network Homes is firmly committed to making sure that our organisation and the communities in which we work are safe places for people to be who they are and live the way they choose. The commitment was recognised at the Housing Heroes awards 2019 where our Equality and Diversity Engagement Group picked up a key award and is demonstrated by us being founding partners for Leadership 2025, the initiative to increase the ethnic diversity of housing’s leadership, and Pledge Pioneers for House Proud, a scheme designed to ensure Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer residents are able to enjoy their homes without fear of discrimination.

About the role

Are you currently looking for a new opportunity?

Do you have 2-4 years ‘experience working in marketing, communications and PR?

If so, we would love to hear from you.

We are currently recruiting for a Communications Officer on a permanent contract. You will be working with the team to produce and deliver a range of high quality and creative communication activities to build positive relationships with Network Homes internal and resident stakeholders.

You will be producing communications for our website, intranet and producing social media content, blogs, and publications ensuring you are providing consistency with our messaging and compliance with Network Homes branding, values, messaging, and style guide.

You will play a key role in the delivery of the digital communications service for the business, including website development and social media accounts.

You will project manage key internal communication campaigns and manage the communications for internal staff.

This is a great opportunity for someone passionate about letting out their creative selves. To be successful, it would be an advantage having some knowledge of housing associations and affordable housing.

You will have strong copywriting and proof-reading skills. You will have experience of using Adobe Creative Suite as well as using an email marketing platform and content management system.

It would be great if you also had experience of working with the national, regional, online and trade media.

If you feel you can add real value to our team, we would love to hear from you.

Rewards and Benefits

We’re committed to making Network a really great place to work. As well as offering a positive culture we offer a generous pay and benefits package, some of which are listed below:

• 27 days annual leave – plus an extra day for every year of service
• Ability to buy or sell up to five days annual leave per year
• Enrolment into our pension scheme with a minimum 4% contribution rate
• Flexible and agile working
• Season ticket loan
• Health & Wellbeing benefits
• Perkbox – offering loads of discounts in popular restaurants/movie tickets/gym etc.

We really care about personal development so this role will offer an excellent opportunity for you to develop your career, but also to make a real impact and difference to the service we provide to our customers.

Disability Confident Commitment

We are committed to equal opportunities. We guarantee an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for our post.

Circle Back Initiative Employer

We are a 2021 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to responding to every application