# Deputy Director for Media and Content

**Company**: Department for Education
**Location**: City of Westminster, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Flexible
**Salary**: GBP 92,000 per year
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

The Department for Education is seeking an exceptional communications leader to become our Deputy Director for Media and Content. This is a high-profile role that involves leading the department's media and content strategy, working with ministers, special advisers, and senior leadership teams.

As Deputy Director, you will be directly accountable for:

- Press Office and Media Relations, leading the department's 24/7 media operation, overseeing strategic media engagement, proactive communications, and issues management.

- Leading the department's content and channel strategy, ensuring our work is based on evidence and puts our audiences first.

- Leading creative content production across video, photography, graphic design, and emerging formats.

- Working with strategic and marketing leads to develop integrated communications campaigns.

- Providing advice and delivery plans to ministers, colleagues, and advisers.

The outcomes you will deliver:

- High levels of confidence in all our audiences in the work of the department.

- A movement for change driven by your communication abilities that brings pupils, students, parents, teachers, lecturers, and everyone involved in education together.

**Person Specification**

Essential Criteria:

- Excellent leadership, with a proven track record transforming multidisciplinary communications functions in a complex and high-profile environment.

- Media expertise, with significant experience leading media engagement and managing high-profile and challenging issues.

- A deep understanding of digital and content-driven storytelling.

- The ability to convene and influence senior leaders and partners.

- Sound leadership and people management skills.

**Benefits**

Alongside your salary of £92,000, the Department for Education contributes £26,652 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. You will have 25 days leave, increasing by 1 day every year to a maximum of 30 days after five years' service. We offer flexible working arrangements, such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time, and compressed hours.

**Selection Process**

The selection process will include:

- Online numerical and verbal reasoning assessments.

- A staff engagement exercise.

- A formal in-person interview.

**Other Information**

- The successful candidate will be subject to a social media check and Due Diligence prior to appointment.

- The Department for Education does not cover the cost of travel to your interview or assessment unless otherwise stated.

## Skills

### Required
- media relations
- content strategy
- communications leadership
- digital storytelling

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