Are you passionate about creating brilliant communications that inform, inspire and connect people? Do you want to play a key role in delivering high‑impact campaigns that make a real difference to colleagues and communities across Sheffield? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

About the Role

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and skilled Communications Officer to join our dynamic, city‑focused internal communications team. You’ll help deliver high‑quality internal and corporate communications through key council priorities; from planning and running major campaigns to supporting change programmes and ensuring colleagues stay connected and informed.

As part of this role, you’ll play a key part in the Council’s major change and transformation programme designed to modernise how we work, improve services, and strengthen the way we support Sheffield’s communities. This means helping colleagues understand what’s changing, why it matters, and how they can play an active role in shaping the Council’s future.

In this varied and rewarding role, you’ll bring:

Strong change communications skills Able to translate complex transformation activity into clear, human, accessible messages for a wide range of audiences.
Confidence working in ambiguity You’ll be comfortable working with developing information and shaping communications within a fast‑moving, evolving programme.
Excellent stakeholder engagement Working closely with programme leads, senior leaders and teams to understand impacts, risks, and ensure communications land well across the organisation.
A strategic mindset Aligning messaging with the Council’s broader priorities and ensuring communications feel connected, consistent and purposeful.
Experience delivering multi‑channel campaigns that help colleagues understand change, feel informed, and stay engaged throughout transformation journeys.
Ability to create compelling narrative and storytelling that brings the Council’s vision to life and helps colleagues see the benefits and opportunities ahead.
Sensitivity to organisational culture and readiness helping shape communications that support colleagues through transition in a positive, supportive way.
A focus on insight and feedback using colleague voice, engagement data and continuous improvement principles to influence messaging and adapt approaches.

What We Offer

A supportive, collaborative communications team.
37‑hour working week with generous annual leave.
A wide range of flexible working options, including part‑time, job share and reduced hours.
Fair, transparent pay arrangements; all council roles are currently part of a new job evaluation programme.

Join Us

Sheffield is a brilliant and diverse city of nearly 600,000 people and is the fourth biggest city in England. We have amazing environmental, cultural, sporting and heritage assets, and are proud of the fact that our outdoor city has been named as the greenest in the UK and is the only city in the UK to include a national park within its boundaries.

It’s an exciting time to work at Sheffield City Council, and we’d be thrilled to welcome someone who shares our passion for clear, creative and impactful communication. If you think this role sounds like a great fit, we encourage you to apply.

For informal enquiries please contact Lee Holland via Lee.Holland@sheffield.gov.uk

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page