Mayoral Communications Officer

The opportunity and context

📣 Role Summary

Join the Mayoral & Communications team to deliver high-impact communications on behalf of the Mayor, CPCA, and Business Board. You’ll be instrumental in raising awareness of major investment, housing, transport, skills, and climate initiatives across the region.

🏛 About CPCA

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority is dedicated to creating prosperity across our region. Accredited as a Real Living Wage and Disability Confident employer, and the supporting of the Armed Forces & Care Leavers Covenants. We support hybrid and flexible working practices to help our colleagues succeed.

What we need

Key Responsibilities

• Working with the Mayor’s Office and communications team, you will create and deliver timely impactful, proactive and reactive media content and briefings
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the press office communications grid
• Organise and accompany the Mayor to appropriate external engagements, ensuring effective media management, as required
• Create and develop social media assets, including processing and editing event photography, subtitling videos and creating and editing images and graphics for publication
• Monitor the Mayor’s social media channels to log queries from the general public, draft appropriate responses and escalate to relevant teams within the Combined Authority
• Maintain and grow the Mayor’s multi channel audience to ensure communication of key decisions and policies receive maximum impact
• Support the organisation, storage and archive of the team’s media library for campaigns
• Use your research skills to populate the Mayoral communications annual event calendar with key dates

Why Join Us?

🌟 What We Offer

• Competitive salary starting from £37,938-41,510 and workplace pension.
• Hybrid working with flexibility to balance office and remote days.
• Full support for equality, diversity, and wellbeing.
• Ongoing development with potential career progression.

📩 How to Apply

– Review the job description

– Send your CV and a tailored cover letter outlining how you meet the role’s requirements to recruitment@cambridgeshirepeterborough-ca.gov.uk by 7th July 9am.

📢 Why This Role Matters

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough is undergoing major transformation. This role places you at the heart of communicating those vital changes.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
We strongly encourage applications from all backgrounds and provide adjustments to support candidates at all stages of recruitment