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Job: Communications Manager \xe2\x80\x93 Violence Reduction Unit

Salary: \xc2\xa341,418 to \xc2\xa345,441

Hours: 36.25 hours per week

Contract: Fixed term for 12 months

Location: Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Tootal Building, 54 Oxford Road, Manchester (with a hybrid approach to working location)

Advert closing date: Sunday 21st Jan 2024 (midnight)

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Your role

Greater Manchester is one of the country\'s most successful city-regions and home to more than 2.8m people, with an economy bigger than that of Wales or Northern Ireland. Our vision is to make Greater Manchester a place where everyone can live a good life, growing up, getting on and growing old in a greener, fairer more prosperous city-region.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is made up of the 10 councils and an elected Mayor who work with other local services, businesses, communities, and partners to continuously improve the city-region.

In October 2019, with investment from the Home Office, GMCA established the Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit (VRU). The unit brings together experts in health, police and criminal justice, education, youth justice, and the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector to address the underlying causes of violent crime and work together with communities across our city-region to prevent it.

The VRU Communications Manager oversees and delivers all communications and engagement activity for the unit, including campaigns, internal communications, stakeholder engagement, media relations, and digital communications.

To find out more about working for GMCA and for further information on the Violence Reduction Unit, please visit the GMCA website here: or the GMVRU website here:

About you

The role holder will provide maternity cover for 12 months as part of the wider GMCA Communications and Engagement team, which is responsible for ensuring that all parts of GMCA have a coherent, consistent, and coordinated approach to communications and engagement, all of which is delivered to a high standard. The team works with numerous stakeholders, including our own colleagues, journalists, partner organisations, elected members, members of the public, and industry experts.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll be a strong and creative communicator with the ability to translate complex information into compelling and engaging content in a variety of formats for both online and offline audiences, and with excellent written skills.

The role holder may also manage campaign contracts with external agencies and oversee the delivery of these campaigns, working closely with the VRU team to promote its work and contribute to its objectives to reduce serious violence in Greater Manchester and deliver the ambitions set out in the \xe2\x80\x98Greater than Violence\xe2\x80\x99 strategy launched in December 2023.

The successful candidate will be enthusiastic and feel that you will flourish in a fast-paced local government environment. You will be a supportive team player and be able to work independently.

About us:

As an employer, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is made up of a number of key Greater Manchester strategic functions and service providers including; Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS); Waste and Resources; Environment; Work and Skills; Research; Public Sector Reform; Police, Crime and Criminal Justice; Homelessness; the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub and the Commissioning Hub.

We value the diversity of our employees, and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across Greater Manchester. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people\'s age, disability, Trans status and Non-binary identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.

To find out more about working for us please click here:

Our offer:

In return for your hard work, we offer our employees a competitive package as part of our offer that you can find out more about here:

Mandatory Information:

Employees on the redeployment register will be given priority for any vacancies in the first instance. If employees are identified as a match from the register then the vacancy may be withdrawn or put on hold pending an outcome.

For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link . Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.

Hybrid working

This role is part of GMCA\xe2\x80\x99s hybrid working scheme. As part of our commitment to \xe2\x80\x98Build Back Fairer\xe2\x80\x99 in Greater Manchester following the Covid-19 pandemic, we have evolved our management methods by trusting and empowering staff to deliver their work in the best way that suits the business and their individual needs, and supports health and wellbeing. Our hybrid working policy sets out a flexible approach, combining attendance at our [Manchester city centre office / Fire and Rescue service HQ in Swinton / other location] with remote working, typically from home; the location of work is primarily dictated by the needs of the business: \xe2\x80\x98Do what is right for you and the business on that day\xe2\x80\x99. If appointed to the role you will work with your manager to agree and regularly review the best working pattern for you, your team and your work.

DBS INFORMATION

The role holder will be subject to a Basic level check by the Disclosure & Barring Service.

This post involves working with children, young people or vulnerable adults and is therefore exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. Failure to disclose information when asked within this application could result in dismissal but will not necessarily be a bar to employment with us. The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are considered \xe2\x80\x98protected\xe2\x80\x99. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the .

This post is classified as politically restricted, as in the Local Government and Housing Act 1989, as the post holder will be required to regularly advise the GMCA, it\xe2\x80\x99s Committees, or communicate with the media on behalf of the GMCA.

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21st Jan 2024

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