What is the job role?
Join us and make a positive difference to the lives of Coventry residents
Are you a creative communicator who enjoys developing engaging and impactful content? We’d love to hear from you.
As a Digital Content and PR Officer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and sharing Coventry City Council's story. Your expertise will help deliver innovative content that supports strategic communication campaigns, ensuring they resonate with and reflect the diverse communities we serve. This role is embedded in an experienced Communications Team, where you will be supported to build strong relationships with media, colleagues, and the community. Your contributions will enhance the Council's public image and showcase how the Council touches people’s lives. And at the heart of your delivery will be our One Coventry values, our commitment to working together for the best possible outcome for our residents.
This is a varied and interesting role where you can contribute to organising events, coordinating VIP visits, and offering supportive advice on messaging and brand consistency. If you’re passionate about public relations, digital storytelling, and working in a fast-paced and energetic team, we’d love to hear from you.
What we offer
At Coventry City Council, we’re proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, development, and work-life balance.
1. Competitive salary with incremental progression and salary matching
2. Generous annual leave starting at 28 days annual leave (plus Bank Holidays) with option to purchase more and rising to 33 days following five years’ service
3. Generous local government pension scheme to help plan for your future
4. Lifestyle discounts across a wide range of activities and retailers
5. Flexible working arrangements to support your personal and professional needs
6. Inclusive Employee Networks: EmbRace, Pride, Disability, Young people, and Women
7. Employee Assistance Programme offering confidential support if you need it
8. Certified training courses to help you grow and thrive
Explore the full range of benefits at
Who are we looking for?
You will have experience in communications, PR, or marketing ideally within the public sector and a solid understanding of media relations, campaign planning, and audience engagement. Confidence with video and audio tools like podcasting, or a willingness to learn, is also key.
Within our team global majorities are currently under-represented, as a result we would like to encourage people from minority ethnic backgrounds to apply for this.
If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme - As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:
9. Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
10. Are currently in care or have previously been in care
11. If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.
Interviews are anticipated to be held week commencing 17 November .
About Coventry
Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.
We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.
At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.
To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.