View Vacancy - Press and Public Affairs Support Officer A2, Tallinn (EST19.305)
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Policy & Political roles)
Communications, Press and Media
The British Embassy in Estonia is part of a world-wide network, representing British political, economic and consular interests overseas and is now looking for a Press and Public Affairs Support Officer.
Main Purpose of Job
- Support the Embassy’s Press & Public Affairs Officer (PPAO) to develop and implement BE Tallinn’s communications strategy, with a focus on social media.
- Ensure continuous development of Embassy digital channels by planning, producing and publishing creative and engaging content that will appeal to target audiences and deliver key messages.
- Monitoring and evaluation of Embassy social media activity.
- Media monitoring.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Support PPAO in development of communication strategies, campaigns and events.
- Plan, create and publish engaging digital content in support of the Embassy’s communications strategy, including: cooperate with colleagues to produce creative and engaging videos, photos, infographics, posts and tweets; work with partners like British Council, NATO Battlegroup, Estonian Embassy in London, etc, to identify opportunities for cross-posting content and joint communications efforts on social media; ensure timely publication of relevant centrally-produced FCO content on the Embassy’s social media channels; monitor comments and messages sent to the Embassy through its social media channels, drafting responses with input from colleagues.
- Monitor and evaluate the impact of the Embassy’s social media activity to improve future work and increase audience and engagement. Report on impact as required
- Monitor traditional and social media in Estonia for trends and messages relevant to UK-Estonian bilateral relations. Keep up to date monitoring lists of key influencers in political, prosperity, trade, academic and cultural areas. Report developments to colleagues as required.
- Minimum 1 year of experience in managing and delivering digital marketing/communications campaigns
- Excellent knowledge of social media platforms, awareness of the latest digital trends and strong practical knowledge of using digital tools, including monitoring tools
- Experience of managing social media platforms, including developing channel strategies, audience profiling and community building.
- Excellent writing/editorial skills, the ability to write and edit engagingly for social media in Estonian and English
- Proven experience in producing and editing photography, video, infographics and visual media for social media
- Strong communicational skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team, respond flexibly to changing priorities
- Proven experience in managing and delivering a demanding workload
- Experience working within a large organisation’s brand guidelines and codes of conduct
- Ability to grasp complex issues quickly and communicate them digitally in an effective way
- Good command of written Russian language
- Knowledge of other digital tools for content creation
- Experience in developing and delivering strategic campaigns to advance policy or other formal objectives.
- Experience of using data analytics to evaluate performance of social media channels and campaigns
23 July 2019
Administrative Officer (AO)
Full-time, Permanent
35
Europe, Eastern Europe & Central Asia
Estonia
Tallinn
British Embassy
1
EUR
16,669.80
29 August 2019
All applicants should have the right to live and work in Estonia. The British Embassy does not sponsor for work permits.
Visa / passport requirements: must currently hold the independent right to live and work in Estonia and be prepared to ensure that right remains throughout the scope of the contract.
The successful candidate will be subject to confirmation of a background check and security clearance.
The start date indicated in the present advert is an estimated date. Final starting date will be agreed between the successful candidate and the Embassy Corporate Services and confirmed after successful security clearance and professional references.
Please note that the deadline for applications is 23:55 on the day mentioned in the above field “Application deadline”.
We advise you to allow enough time to complete and submit your full application, since only applications completed and submitted before the deadline will be considered.
Please be aware that the deadline for submitting applications is considered to be the time zone for the country where the vacancy has arisen.
We advise you to allow enough time to complete and submit your full application, since only applications completed and submitted before the deadline will be considered.
Please be aware that the deadline for submitting applications is considered to be the time zone for the country where the vacancy has arisen.
Please be aware that you will only be able to apply to vacancies for Country Based Staff roles with the British Government through this official tal.net site (operated by Oleeo). Jobs may be advertised on third party websites, however our adverts will always link back to the official tal.net site. If you complete and send an application through any other site, we will not receive it.
This opportunity is closed to applications.
