Communications Officer

OPPORTUNITY

The Nitra Manufacturing plant forms a central part of Jaguar Land Rover growth strategy and has an important role in positioning Jaguar Land Rover as one of the leading automotive manufacturers and employers.
Employees communications has a critical role to play within manufacturing. Effective communications can have a direct impact on engagement, productivity and quality.

The Communications officer role is dedicated to delivering consistent, quality and timely communications using a variety of communications channels, with special focus on visual communication tools and community events. The role will involve owning all core communication channels, internally and externally including the weekly Team Talk newsletter, digital TV screens, creating visual content for them and managing business critical employee briefs for the Nitra manufacturing centre. A solid level understanding of internal communications channels and measurement, including working knowledge and experience of software tools such as Poppulo, is needed. The Communications Officer reports to the Nitra Corporate Affairs Manager providing dedicated support to deliver the communications strategy.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Employee communications
• Delivery of film, photography and graphic assets to support plant communications: weekly e-newsletter, employee briefs, digital screens, noticeboards. Most of the communication materials are bilingual (Slovak and English); film assets include filming on camera, cutting the footage and prepare subtitles.
• Creation of scenarios, story boards and inputs for films
• Co-ordination of employee communication and engagement activities: organize or provide technical support for Milestone events, Town Halls, new model launches, tactical plant campaigns.
• Coordinate plant tours and visits and other third party activities.
• Auditing the impact of employee communications and make recommendations for improvement.
• Develop opportunities to enhance and improve existing communications channels.
• Support the central internal communications team in the development and deployment of an all employee communications strategy.
• Work with the wider Internal Communications team to develop, collate and identify compelling stories and features and elevate across all channels in line with our strategy and transformation
• Management of local social media channels – Facebook, LinkedIn
• Support the creation and delivery of JLR Nitra wide digital employee communications campaigns
• Use data and metrics to report and provide feedback on engagement good practice

Community Engagement Projects

• Ensure implementation of community programmes and projects like Employee Grant Programme, volunteering initiatives, community events

Essential:
• Excellent communication skills – both spoken and written, Slovak and English (
• Must be able to produce communications which is relevant and comprehendible for all levels of the company
• Able to negotiate and influence across the organisation
• Strong ability to organise self, and prioritise workload in order to meet tight deadlines
• A good level of IT competence is required in programmes such as Excel, Word and Power Point and Poppulo
• A good level of IT competence is required in programmes such as Adobe Premiere and Photoshop
• A good level of competence with tools to generate engaging and informative contact such as digital cameras and audio visual setups.
• 3+ years Communications experience
• Ability to identify good stories from across the business
• Full driving licence

Desirable:
• Working in stand-alone communications role with large organisation and/or a diverse customer group
• PR/digital/advertising agency Experienced in events management
• Automotive or manufacturing environment experience is advantage but not a must

• For relax, regeneration, as well as for sport activities surrounded by your colleagues, accessible from October 2023, our Centre of health and well-being. Fitness centre, multifunctional playgrounds, table tennis, yoga, massages, nutritionist, psychological counsellor and legal advisor directly in a building helping each and every employee, not only taking care about health, but also strengthen friendship with colleagues in professionally equipped spaces, for free.

• Catering only for 1€. During the breaks, you can have a rest, relax and/or have a snack, beverages from a variety of options offered in our automatic machines.

• Contribution to regeneration and education in value of 200€.

• Give us a recommendation for a new colleagues and get a bonus in a value of 250€ brutto. The more successful candidates you can provide us with, the more you can get.

• For travelling we are offering you contribution of 60€ per month.

• After 12 finished months here with us, we provide you with 400€ brutto, so you can by yourself choose from our Jaguar Land Rover benefits. You all know how you want to spend your free time, either by relaxing, shopping, education…

• Jaguar Land Rover will contribute with 3% from the sum of your salary for your additional pension savings and will cover your life and accident insurance in full.

• You will work in a well-equipped environment, where we make sure our employees feel comfortable and taken care of, so they have all they need, in terms of a proper working environment.

• Your career development is vital for us, that is why we also offer you opportunities for additional education, training courses, etc.

• In Jaguar Land Rover, we also care about our surroundings, including environment, hundreds of our volunteers have already been helping Nitra and communities living here.