Senior Media Officer (Remote)

Senior Media Officer.

Salary: c£37,000 per annum.

Location: Remote.

Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week.

Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave.
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover.
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailer’s discounts.

Why Action for Children?

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It is the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children’s lives.

A bit about the role

This is an exciting opportunity to join Action for Children as a Senior Media Officer. You will have responsibility for planning and delivering news and media relations activities across the UK to highlight the work of Action for Children and issues relating to vulnerable children, young people and families.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced, proactive & enthusiastic Senior Media Officer to join the team at Action for Children.

How you’ll help to create brighter futures, by:

• Planning and delivering national, regional and trade proactive and reactive news and media relations activity.
• Demonstrating your excellent news judgement and developing key relationships to engage with national, regional and trade media as required.
• Researching and writing media releases, statements and articles as appropriate for national, regional trade media outlets.
• Assisting in writing briefings and Q&As and preparing spokespeople for media interviews.
• Working closely with the influencing team to disseminate complex policy findings to a news audience in an accessible and engaging way.

Let’s talk about you

• Experience of media relations as a journalist or within a press, PR or communications office.
• Experience of raising the profile of an organisation through media and PR activity and campaigns.
• Experience of working with broadcast, print and online media.
• First-class verbal and written communication skills with meticulous attention to detail.
• Flexibility to participate in the out of hours rota which runs 365 days a year, 24/7.
• Must be policy focussed and able to deal with complex data.

Please see the Job Description for the full list of accountabilities and requirements.

Good to know

Application Process

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

There are five sections to complete: Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration.

Diversity, equality, and inclusion

At Action for Children, we’re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.

We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

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Closing Date: Monday 11th November 2024.

Interviews will be week commencing 18th November 2024.