Location of Role: Chelmsford
Advert Closing Date: 18/06/2026
Starting Salary: £33,603.00 (pro-rata for part-time vacancies)
Part/Full Time: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Mon-Fri
Weekend/Evening Working: No
This an exciting role for a talented internal communications professional. Essex Police is a growing, complex organisation with more than 6,000 police officers, staff and volunteers spread across the county. The Internal Communications Delivery Officer plays a key role helping colleagues feel informed and valued.
The successful candidate will have excellent writing skills across a range of media, pay attention to detail and accuracy, and ideally have experience of working on different content management systems.
You will assist in the design and development of internal communication material and processes, including the internal intranet, providing initial advice and information to officers and staff in order to raise awareness across the workforce of the Essex Police vision, values and priorities. The role requires a keen eye for detail and a focus on evaluating the success of projects and communications materials.
The role will involve writing, sub-editing, creating a range of content to support force wide internal publicity campaigns on a number of topics including neighbourhood policing, specialist services and diversity and equality. Experience of supporting with event planning is also useful.
Please evidence the following essential criteria and the detail in the job description within your reason for application:
1. Working towards qualifications in journalism, public relations or marketing or similar subject or an equivalent standard qualification. This will be combined with around 2-3 years’ experience relevant to public. relations, marketing or internal communications.
2. Accuracy in every aspect of work including excellent writing, content creation and editorial skills for range of media and presentation skills.
3. Evidence of the ability to design, develop and support media initiatives influencing for a positive outcome.
4. Evaluation skills.
Successful applicants for this role will be defined as an;
Office based Agile Worker:
Office based agile working with designated team area at our Headquarters in Chelmsford. Works predominantly (60% or more) in one office space. The rest of the time works at home or at other police site locations. The role will offer flexibility in terms of place of work, including some home working. The extent of flexibility will be agreed through individual assessment with the line manager to assess operational requirements and individual’s suitability for home working. In the event that home working is agreed for the successful candidate, there will be a requirement to regularly attend the contractual workplace at our Headquarters in Chelmsford.
Your application is shortlisted on the content provided within the 'reason for application' section. Please ensure you provide as much detail as possible as insufficient information may mean that you do not meet the shortlisting criteria.
Depending on your current vetting level and security clearances, you may be required to complete additional vetting information during the recruitment process.
Kent Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status.
If you’re not from the UK, you must be a resident in the UK and have lived here continuously for the last three years. You must also be free from restrictions with indefinite leave to remain. If you’re from the UK you must have lived here continuously for the last three years. This doesn’t apply to those serving abroad in the British Armed Forces.
As a Disability Confident Leader we:
5. Have subjected our Disability Confident self-assessment to external challenge and validation.
6. Are taking an active leadership role in encouraging and helping other employers on their journey to becoming Disability Confident.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion are central to the values of our organisation. At Essex Police we value and embrace the unique experiences, identities and abilities that each of us bring to our roles. We strive to empower everyone to bring their authentic self openly and safely to work.
Through the dedicated commitment of our support networks, DE&I team and wider HR departments, we are on a journey to embed our DE&I commitments, ensuring Essex Police is an employer of choice; where everyone feels included.
Essex Police and Kent Police are an equal opportunities employer. Communications may be recorded for monitoring purposes.
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