Overview
Media Resources Officer – OX5 2DU
Number of Positions: 1
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £34434 – £37280
Working Hours: 37
Location: Oxfordshire
Business Unit: Fire Services & Community Safety
About Us
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an organisation with a reputation for excellence and investment in their employees, to work in a diverse and inclusive environment with flexible working hours that offer great work-life balance. Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service provides prevention, protection, and response services across the county. We are committed to providing a great service to the public to prevent fires and reduce risk for the people of Oxfordshire. Training Support are a specialist team within the Training & Development department at Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, whose role is to develop, maintain, and deliver training material and to provide technical support to assist Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service with the maintenance of competency standards. A vital role to ensuring an effective Fire and Rescue Service, the team manage a varied workload, and adapt to meet changes in deadlines or training methods.
About the Role
The successful candidate will be part of a two-person team in Training Support, reporting directly to Watch Manager Training Support, working from Kidlington Fire Station with additional travel requirements within Oxfordshire. You will be responsible for creating, maintaining, and updating training packages to support the learning of Firefighters, as well as organising the storage of these documents on the intranet. This role involves communication with a variety of key stakeholders across Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, to ensure that training packages are updated to meet requirements. You will also be required to produce and edit video and photographic assets for use in training packages and presentations.
About you
To be successful in this role you need to have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to communicate ideas clearly and concisely. You should be comfortable consulting on the packages not only with the members of your team but also with various stakeholders throughout Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service. You will demonstrate the ability to work well as part of a team as well as to independently manage your own workload, prioritising tasks to manage deadlines. The successful candidate will have established that they are competent using cameras to capture video and photographs, microphones to record audio, and ideally would have experience of and or qualifications relating to the creation of digital learning packages. You should be confident using Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Cloud applications.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact – Chris Burgess on 07766 496588 or email chris.burgess@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Closing date: 31 May 2026
Interview Date: 8 June 2026
Rewards and benefits
- Culture of flexible working
- Technology to support agile working where role permits
- 30 day’s holiday p.a. plus bank holidays
- Option to ‘buy’ additional holiday
- Employee Assistance Programme including access to health and wellbeing support
- Membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme, with an employer’s contribution of up to 19.9%
- Enhanced family friendly policies
- Local and national discounts for shopping and travel
- Great learning and development opportunities to support your ongoing development.
Our commitment to:
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
At Oxfordshire County Council we are proud of our diverse workforce. Everyone is accepted for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, or on maternity or family leave. We have a number of staff network groups which provide peer support, education and safe spaces for all.
Our commitment to:
Guaranteed Interview Schemes
As a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee an interview for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job. We also guarantee interviews to care leavers who have completed further education and who meet the essential criteria for the job. For those leaving care without any further education, we guarantee an interview for our apprenticeships. We are also committed to helping and supporting those transitioning from HM Armed Forces to civilian life and guarantee an interview for those demonstrating the essential criteria for the role, within three years of leaving the service.
Our commitment to:
Safeguarding
Oxfordshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect these commitments.
Our commitment to:
Flexible Working
We are open to discussions about flexible working, which can include flexi-time, full time and part time working, job sharing, nine-day fortnights and annualised hours, depending on the requirements of the role and the service.
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