Media and Engagement Officer
Media and Engagement Officer (BAME) - Full Time
Tower Hamlets Council’s Communications and Marketing Service is seeking to appoint a full time Media and Engagement Officers to specialise in connecting with our diverse communities.
Our award-winning Communications and Marketing service is at the heart of the council in the Chief Executive’s Office. We want exceptional people who can help us to tell our story and work with residents to improve lives in the UK’s most exciting borough.
Tower Hamlets offers the best of London in one borough. We are an incredibly diverse place, rich in history, opportunity and culture with the largest Bangladeshi population in the country. We are looking for media and engagement specialist who can help us to communicate with our diverse population through digital media and face to face engagement.
You will have experience of working in the media and engaging with the BAME/Bangladeshi community. You will know how to produce high-quality video news stories and digital content for local/BAME television, online media and the council’s digital channels. This includes story production and video editing with programmes such as Adobe Premiere Pro / Final Cut Pro and Adobe After Effects. You should be fluent in both Bengali and Sylheti.
Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.
Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination based on race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.
We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and applicants who live in the borough.