Application form, page 1 of 3

Please complete all sections of this form and remember to tell us everything relevant to your application. Please also provide a copy of your CV covering:

  • Your current employment – including salary and notice period
  • Your employment history
  • Your education, training and professional qualifications
  • Other experience or work which you feel could be relevant to your application

Please e-mail your completed application form along with your CVand covering letter no later than 5.00 pm on Wednesday 18 April 2018

If you have any difficulties completing this form, or require it in an alternative format e.g. large print, audio or Braille, please call Christine Cherry on 01727 762021 or e-mail This will not be detrimental to your application.

Where did you hear about this vacancy?
Section 1 – Your personal details
Your title:
Surname:
Other names: / Address:
Telephone: / Email:
Section 2 – Evidence of how you meet the criteria for this post
Please use this section to show how your skills and experience meet the criteria set out in the person specification for this post – n.b. all sections will expand as you type
  1. Experience of successfully delivering high profile communications work

  1. Skilled at developing communications strategies for multiple audiences

  1. Experience of commissioning or working in partnership to develop assets to support communications strategies or campaigns

  1. Excellent project management skills

  1. Creative and lateral thinker

  1. Good at networking, engaging influencers and VIPs

  1. Excellent critical thinking and analysis skills

  1. Resourceful and resilient

Please use this section for anything else you would like to add in support of your application.

In order to comply with the Immigration Act 1996 we are required to see proof of your right to work in the UK. This will be requested once an offer of employment has been made. If you require a work permit to work in the UK please indicate below.

Yes No

If yes, please give details of the type of work permit or visa you have/require:

Please give details of any criminal convictions you have had, excluding any ‘spent’ under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (minor motoring offences may be disregarded)

Declaration

By sending us your application by email you confirm all information given on this form is, to the best of your knowledge and belief, accurate and complete and that you have omitted nothing, which to the best of your knowledge might affect this application. You also agree the information included on this form may be used by The Reading Agency for assessment of your application.

Your name: / Date:

Now please complete our equal opportunities monitoring form

Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form

The Reading Agency asks all job applicants to complete this information to enable us to monitor our equal opportunity policy.

This form will be separated from your application. We will treat the information you provide as strictly confidential and it will not influence your application.

  1. Are you: female male
  2. What is your ethnic group? Please choose one section then tick the appropriate box to indicate your cultural background

Asian or Asian British
Bangladeshi
Indian
Pakistani
Any other Asian background
Please specify: / Mixed
Asian and white
Black African and white
Black Caribbean and white
Any other mixed background
Please specify:
Black or Black British
African
Caribbean
Other black background
Please specify: / White
British
Irish
Any other white background
Please specify:
Chinese
Chinese / Other ethnic group
Any other ethnic group
Please specify:
  1. The Equality Act 2010 defines disability as 'A physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long term adverse effect on a person's ability to carry out normal day to day activities.' Long term in this context means likely to last longer than 12 months or likely to recur.
    Do you consider yourself to have a disability? Yes No Prefer not to say
    If yes, please provide details:
  2. Do you have dependants? Dependants might include children, the elderly, or other people who rely on you for care. Yes No

For the purposes of compliance with the Data Protection Act I confirm that by completing this form I give my consent to The Reading Agency processing the data supplied above in order to monitor its equal opportunities policy. I also agree to the storage of this information on manual and computerised files.

Thank you