Media Job: Communications officer (corporate): Police Scotland

CLOSING DATE: September 1, 2014

Communications officer (corporate)

Randolphfield, Stirling

Band E: £24,201 – £28,539

Ref no: R68/13/2

THE post holder will provide a professional and effective frontline communications response, proactively and reactively, in support of the aims of Corporate Communications and Service priorities. You will serve as the first point of contact for the media on corporate media issues and help to deliver communications products in support of the policing purpose of Keeping People Safe.

The post holder will be required to participate in an on-call rota.

The following essential competencies will be used for the selection process:

* Effective communication

* Job knowledge

* Service delivery

* Problem solving

* Team working

* Partnership working

Please be aware that that the interim SPA pay and grading structure may be subject to future change.

Police Scotland are committed to promoting a diverse workforce and to achieving and promoting an organisational culture where staff and officers are treated with dignity, fairness and respect.

Applicants must be a British citizen, a member of the EU or other states in the EEA, a Commonwealth citizen or a foreign national free of restrictions. You should also have been resident in the UK for a minimum of three years immediately prior to application. In certain circumstances, it is possible for the minimum residency period for vetting to be waived. This can only be done where it is possible to make, or confirm, in the relevant jurisdictions with local Law Enforcement and National Security bodies, which are equivalent, and of a similar standard, to enquiries, which would be made in the UK, on both the applicant and all family members and associates. In cases where it is not possible to makes the equivalent checks, the residency criterion will be stringently enforced.

To assist us to monitor the effectiveness of our equality and diversity practices, we would encourage you to complete and submit the Equality and Diversity monitoring form, which will be separated from your application form prior to the selection process. The information you provide will be treated as sensitive data under the Data Protection Act 1998.

No CVs please – full application forms must be completed.

For an application pack visit www.scotland.police.uk/recruitment, e-mail recruitmentcentre@scotland.pnn.police.uk or call 01355 566350. Please quote reference number R68/13/2.

Closing date: Monday 1 September 2014 by 4.30pm.

Interview date: To be advised.

Our Purpose: To improve the safety and well being of people, places and communities in Scotland.

Our Focus: Keeping people safe.

Email: recruitmentcentre@scotland.pnn.police.uk