Job Description

Job Details:

Salary range: \xc2\xa337,653 - \xc2\xa343,701 per annum
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Temporary up to December 2024
Closing date: 17 September 2023
Interview date: 03 October 2023
Contact details for an informal discussion: Sefinat Otaru, Clean Air Thames Project Manager via email at

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM

Innovation and Change in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where people use their vision and commitment to open doors for the next generations.

Nothing beats the feeling of helping someone find their passion. At Westminster City Council, our City Lions team helps young local people engage with culture, creativity and dreams. When they came across a lonely, isolated 16-year-old who called himself a failure, they knew what to do. They worked 1-2-1 to find the thing this boy really loved. YouTube, it turned out. But it\xe2\x80\x99s impossible to turn that into a career, right? Wrong. A week later, he was enrolled on the British Film Institute film-making programme. It was the ultimate light-bulb moment. And it turned him into what he is today \xe2\x80\x93 a budding Spielberg with a world of opportunity at his feet.

Please view the extraordinary story of the Impossible Dream .

The Role:

As Project Officer (Communications), you can make your own powerful contribution to extending the reach of life-changing projects \xe2\x80\x93 with a big focus on sustainability. You\xe2\x80\x99ll support the organisation and delivery of events and communications relating to a range of regeneration projects that seek to creatively address challenges facing residents, businesses and visitors to Westminster and London more broadly. In particular, you\xe2\x80\x99ll enjoy a fantastic opportunity to be part of innovative projects that will change air quality for good.

Joining a diverse team of people who are highly motivated to make our City a better place to be, you\xe2\x80\x99ll help to make a long-lasting difference and influence behaviour change. Our range of exciting projects \xe2\x80\x93 and your range of responsibilities \xe2\x80\x93 are highly varied, so you can be sure no two days will be the same. You\xe2\x80\x99ll provide vital support to project and programme managers, so we can work effectively with public, private and third sector partners to make London a nicer and healthier place to live, work and visit.

We\xe2\x80\x99ll look to you to deliver a specialist communications service for the Smarter Greener Logistics programme and other projects. This will span everything from our e-newsletter, website and social media, through to press releases and promotional events. You\xe2\x80\x99ll also develop and produce webinars. Responsible for maintaining, developing and reviewing communications systems, processes and procedures, you\xe2\x80\x99ll also have the chance to manage small projects yourself. Communicating with our partners and funders will be a key aspect of your role, as you\xe2\x80\x99ll share knowledge as a champion of our work, practices and impact.

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About You:

Ideally, your communications experience will include sustainability topics, as this will mean you can really hit the ground running. We expect you to be comfortable with digital and non-digital comms, from social media campaigns, scheduling emails and managing websites, through to running events. We\xe2\x80\x99d prefer you to be familiar with tools including Canva Pro, Hootsuite, WordPress and Google Analytics. Naturally, you\xe2\x80\x99ll be a great communicator in person as well as in writing, with the confidence to work constructively and collaboratively with all kinds of partners and colleagues, plus press, PR and media contacts. You\xe2\x80\x99ll bring to the role a positive can-do attitude, bags of initiative and a passion for making London an even better place.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council\xe2\x80\x99s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city\xe2\x80\x99s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

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