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We’re a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in.
With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable and private rent, specialist housing services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.
Our 70,000 customers have diverse backgrounds and levels of income and we’re here to provide all of them with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable. And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit we make is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers.
We’re also members of the G15, a group of leading housing associations that work together to house one in ten Londoners and tackle the housing crisis.
Role overview
We are looking for an Assistant Communications Officer to join our fantastic Communications team. This role is tasked with delivering high-quality copywriting, project management and administrative support to the Communications team. This role will also have the fantastic opportunity to gain experience across internal, external communications and Press and PR as well as working within a great team with a range of skills and experience.
Some key responsibilities:
- Content: Produce clear and engaging written content including news, features and case studies. Also leads on the production of the weekly staff newsletter
- Projects: Leads and supports on a variety of priority projects, campaigns and events, e.g. planning, logistics, supplier management, presentations, templates, and administration
- Photography: Plan, commission and manage customer, corporate and development photo shots, working with professional photographers
- Requests: Support our team with responding to day-to-day enquiries from across the organisation
- Business continuity: Support our business continuity activities, including updating templates, guidance and briefing team members
- Channels: Publish content on our websites and intranet
- Support: Provide cover for Press & PR Officer, and Internal Communications Officer when they are out of the office.
More about you
- Ideal for someone in their early career, or candidates looking to balance a role around their family
- Experience in a PR communications, or journalism role, preferably for a large organisation
- News-writing, copywriting and proofreading skills, and experience of writing for a range of audiences and channels
- Experience of managing simple communication campaigns
- Experience of providing administrative support in a busy office environment
- Experience of developing and maintaining effective systems and processes
Choosing us is easy
As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:
- 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
- Up to 8% contributory pension
- Flexible working options considered
- Investment in your learning and development.
In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.
We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.
Whatever the role, we want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part in improving people’s lives.
