Communications Business Adviser - Permanent This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Communications Business Adviser
- Job Location: Shire Hall, Block 4, 4th Floor
- Salary: £41,771 - £47,181 per annum (pro rata)
- Hours per Week: 22.50
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Closing Date: 08/03/2026
- Job Requisition Number: 13033
- This post is not open to job share
About the Team
We’re the team that helps everyone understand what’s happening and feel connected. Our job is to make messages clear, engaging, and meaningful—whether it’s a big campaign or an internal update. Every project is different, and every one makes an impact.
You’ll join a team that works together, shares ideas, and values creativity. We partner with leaders and colleagues across the organisation to make sure every message counts. You’ll see the results of your work every day—helping shape decisions, improve staff engagement, and strengthen community relationships.
About the Role
As a Communications Business Adviser: Digital Engagement, you will help lead the council’s digital engagement work, ensuring our websites, intranet, social media and digital channels meet user needs, support digital transformation and deliver real value for residents and the organisation.
Working across the council, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering strategic communications, contributing to the council’s overall communications strategy and annual communications plan. You’ll act as a gatekeeper for our digital platforms, leading development, improvement and innovation while ensuring accessibility, usability and best practice are embedded throughout.
About You
You are an experienced digital communications professional with a strong track record of developing, delivering and evaluating digital engagement work, ideally within a complex or public‑sector environment. You understand how to use digital channels to support organisational change and improve user experience.
You are confident leading projects, managing contracts and working with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leaders. You can translate technical or complex information into clear, accessible communications and champion best practice in areas such as online writing, accessibility, user experience and emerging digital trends.
You bring a creative mindset, balanced with the resilience and organisation needed to perform in a fast‑paced, demanding environment.
Educated to degree level or with equivalent professional experience, you have the credibility and capability to operate at pace and with impact.
Special notes:
This is a politically restricted post.
About us
For all your hard work, you will receive the following:
- Flexible and agile working opportunities
- 25.5 days annual leave (pro rata)
- An option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
- Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family
- Career development and qualification opportunities
- Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
- Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
- An in-house Occupational Health service
- Employee discount scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&Cs apply)
- Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network.
How to a pply
If you feel you have the skills, desire and experience required to make a positive difference then please submit your application and personal statement today by clicking the “Apply Now” Button.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Adam Barnes via email at
Closing date: 8th March 2026
Short-listed candidates will be contacted by e-mail and invited to interview week commencing 9 March 2026
Additional Information
To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-
Communications Business Adviser - Job Profile
The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months' employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.
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We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.
