Digital Communications Manager - Perm

We’re looking for a proactive, creative, and detail-oriented professional to lead the DCC’s digital presence. In this manager-level role, you’ll deliver our digital communications strategy, drive social media development, and oversee the day-to-day management and improvement of the DCC corporate website. You’ll work closely with colleagues across the organisation to source and shape compelling stories that showcase our impact and innovation.

You’ll lead the planning and delivery of our digital communications strategy, ensuring our channels effectively communicate progress in the smart metering roll‑out and highlight how our secure data network enables innovation and wider public benefit. Your work will help build understanding of DCC’s role and strengthen engagement with key stakeholders.

• Lead the planning and delivery of DCC’s digital communications strategy, evaluating impact regularly.
• Drive the development of DCC’s social media presence (Linked In, X, Bluesky) with engaging, timely content.
• Manage and improve the DCC corporate website using Umbraco CMS, ensuring it remains user‑friendly and compliant.
• Create and publish digital content, including graphics, photography, video, and infographics.
• Monitor engagement across digital channels, analyse performance data, and produce regular reports.

• Strong creative and digital design skills, ideally using Adobe Creative Suite.
• Proven experience managing web and social media functions, either in‑house or agency‑side.
• Experience with website content management systems (preferably Umbraco).
• Track record of developing and growing social media communities and delivering content strategies.
• Experience in video production, including filming and editing.

We’re powering Britain’s smarter, greener future. Today. Tomorrow. Together.

Today, we’re deeply invested in building a resilient, sustainable smart energy network that drives transformation. Our success is driven by curiosity, ambition, and tenacity.

Tomorrow, we see vast opportunities for growth and development, contributing to decarbonisation and the Net Zero mission. We’ll continually develop Smart DCC, to fulfil our obligations to consumers, and achieve even more with our customers, partners, and each other.

Together, embrace change, unite in our shared passions and support each other. Working as one team and across our industry, we rise to the challenge to shape Smart DCC, and the future.

A career at Smart DCC means being part of something bigger – a dynamic organisation that’s not just helping transform energy but also shaping the future. We offer a unique, fulfilling environment where you can thrive today, build tomorrow, and achieve together.

At DCC we reward fairly and recognise fully because our continued success depends on our people.

We offer competitive salaries with regular benchmarking, together with bonuses tied to personal and company performance and our core benefits include pension, holidays and private healthcare.

We want you to feel respected and able, so we also offer a competitive 8 days per month hybrid work policy together with other flexible benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

This is meaningful work, with meaningful reward.

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

As a Disability Confident member, DCC is committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments, need a copy of this job advert in an alternative format, or have any other questions you’d like to ask before applying, please contact Stephanie