Key purpose
Promoting the county council internally and
externally.
Roles and responsibilities
We are responsible for managing, protecting and promoting the
reputation of Suffolk County Council, working to create a better
understanding between the county council, its public, staff and its
key stakeholders. We:
- lead on all council communications activity
- protect and enhance the council's reputation
- produce About Suffolk, the council's door-to-door
newspaper
- raise awareness of and explain plans and policies to our
customers
- manage internal communication, news about changes, our culture
and values
- manage events internally and extrnally
- lead on all marketing activity and build strong brand
loyalty by planning and designing marketing campaigns
- help services achieve performance targets by advertising what
we do, and
- act as a franchise agency.
We communicate with nearly 700,000 residents across the county,
27,000 staff and hundreds of local, national and international
organisations and partners.
Background
Based in Endeavour House, Ipswich, we are a small team with
diverse specialist skills in media relations, stakeholder
management, publicity campaigns and publishing.
Our primary day-to-day focus includes media and staff relations,
dealing with staff and media news releases and upwards of
2000 enquiries from the local, national and international
media.