Communications Officer

At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About The Opportunity

Jacobs Nuclear is the Design and Engineering partner for Sellafield under the PPP (Programme and Project Partners). This is a 20-year arrangement to deliver ~£7bn of major projects. We are looking to recruit high value expertise from across regulated and comparable sectors to work in a collaborative environment. PPP is delivering major projects, site wide improvements and provision of supporting services.

Jacobs Nuclear provides the front end design and engineering capability across the PPP portfolio. Being part of the PPP Team offers a unique opportunity to drive change and innovation in engineering, safety and delivery solutions in one of the most complex industrial sites in the UK if not the world. We are looking for people who are passionate about developing themselves and in meeting new challenges.

We have a fantastic opportunity within our partnership for a communications officer to join the team delivering communications for one of the largest infrastructure programmes in the UK.

We are looking for an individual who brings fresh ideas, creativity and an eye for detail, to support the delivery of our internal and external communications plan.

Your activities will include

Sourcing, gathering, creating, editing and proofing content across all media forms e.g. digital media, print, photography, film, online and offline to support our internal and external objectives.
Identifying and developing good news stories from across our programme and major projects.
Writing stories / articles for internal and customer magazines, press releases and social media
Creating and executing communications plans
Organise internal events to support workforce engagement
Working with internal support functions and third parties to deliver activities in the communications strategy
Working with internal graphic designers to deliver high quality materials and multimedia
Writing award submissions

Here’s What You’ll Need

Significant experience of working in public relations, communications or marketing teams
A track record of delivering communications that deliver agreed outcomes
Good understanding of new and multimedia techniques as well as of content management systems and design
Experience of overseeing multimedia production and editing skills are desirable
Demonstrates inclusive and respectful behaviours with ability to positively challenge others