Queen Elizabethis hiring!Buckingham Palace is seeking a permanent senior employee communications assistant to work 37.5 hours a week on-site, according to alisting posted this week on LinkedIn. The individual hired must be “educated to degree level, with some experience of internal or employee communications.““Working as part of our professional and supportive HR team, you’ll underpin all aspects of our employee communications and will join at an interesting and important time,” the listing says on LinkedIn andThe Royal Household website.Receiving a salary of £27,000 (around $37,000) plus benefits, the selected candidate will be an analytics guru who “manage(s) our social intranet to ensure it’s a ‘must visit’ place for every employee,” as well as “co-ordinate news, source and write content, support local editors and be a point of technical know-how.“Can’t get enough of PEOPLE’s Royals coverage?Sign up for our newsletterto get the latest updates onKate Middleton,Meghan Markleand more!Buckingham Palace.TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty"But that’s not all. We’re just as focused on our external audience, explainingwho we are and the work we doin order to attract future talent. And so as brand ambassador for our recruitment communications, you’ll lead on the development of our external web and social media presence,” the listing adds of the position, whose managers will be accepting applications for through Feb. 7.According to The Royal Household, the palace is also currentlyhiring for four other positions: a design and development assistant, a retail financial analyst, a warehouse operative and a digital learning advisor — the latter of which, like the senior employee communications assistant job, will be at Buckingham Palace.The job openings come eight months after around 380 employees — who had been hired as guides and to help staff the palace’s annual summer exhibit — were laid off due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, before they’d even started work.“The roles were for around 380 temporary summer staff on three-month contracts. They were recruited earlier this year for the Buckingham Palace opening, which now isn’t going ahead,” a spokesperson for the Royal Collectiontold PEOPLE at the time. “They have all been given the option to carry over the offer for next summer.“Want to get the biggest stories from PEOPLE every weekday?Subscribe to our new podcast,PEOPLE Every Day, to get the essential celebrity, entertainment and human interest news stories Monday through Friday. Get a taste of the podcast below.RELATED VIDEO: WATCH: Do You Want a Job in Buckingham Palace?Back in March, the Queen, 94, left Buckingham Palace in Londonto self-isolate at Windsor Castlewith her husband,Prince Philip, amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis.Since then, she has limited her engagements to small gatherings. The Queen held a scaled-downTrooping the Colourcelebration in June as well as theknighting of fundraiser Sir Tom Moore, both behind closed doors.Buckingham Palace announced on Jan. 9 that the Queen and 99-year-oldPrince Philip, who are both in the high-risk category,had been given vaccinations.“The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh have today received Covid-19 vaccinations,” a Buckingham Palace spokesperson told PEOPLE at the time.
Queen Elizabethis hiring!
Buckingham Palace is seeking a permanent senior employee communications assistant to work 37.5 hours a week on-site, according to alisting posted this week on LinkedIn. The individual hired must be “educated to degree level, with some experience of internal or employee communications.”
“Working as part of our professional and supportive HR team, you’ll underpin all aspects of our employee communications and will join at an interesting and important time,” the listing says on LinkedIn andThe Royal Household website.
Receiving a salary of £27,000 (around $37,000) plus benefits, the selected candidate will be an analytics guru who “manage(s) our social intranet to ensure it’s a ‘must visit’ place for every employee,” as well as “co-ordinate news, source and write content, support local editors and be a point of technical know-how.”
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Buckingham Palace.TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty
“But that’s not all. We’re just as focused on our external audience, explainingwho we are and the work we doin order to attract future talent. And so as brand ambassador for our recruitment communications, you’ll lead on the development of our external web and social media presence,” the listing adds of the position, whose managers will be accepting applications for through Feb. 7.
According to The Royal Household, the palace is also currentlyhiring for four other positions: a design and development assistant, a retail financial analyst, a warehouse operative and a digital learning advisor — the latter of which, like the senior employee communications assistant job, will be at Buckingham Palace.
The job openings come eight months after around 380 employees — who had been hired as guides and to help staff the palace’s annual summer exhibit — were laid off due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, before they’d even started work.
“The roles were for around 380 temporary summer staff on three-month contracts. They were recruited earlier this year for the Buckingham Palace opening, which now isn’t going ahead,” a spokesperson for the Royal Collectiontold PEOPLE at the time. “They have all been given the option to carry over the offer for next summer.”
Want to get the biggest stories from PEOPLE every weekday?Subscribe to our new podcast,PEOPLE Every Day, to get the essential celebrity, entertainment and human interest news stories Monday through Friday. Get a taste of the podcast below.
RELATED VIDEO: WATCH: Do You Want a Job in Buckingham Palace?
Back in March, the Queen, 94, left Buckingham Palace in Londonto self-isolate at Windsor Castlewith her husband,Prince Philip, amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
Since then, she has limited her engagements to small gatherings. The Queen held a scaled-downTrooping the Colourcelebration in June as well as theknighting of fundraiser Sir Tom Moore, both behind closed doors.
Buckingham Palace announced on Jan. 9 that the Queen and 99-year-oldPrince Philip, who are both in the high-risk category,had been given vaccinations.
“The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh have today received Covid-19 vaccinations,” a Buckingham Palace spokesperson told PEOPLE at the time.
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