Vacancies: Friends of the Earth, Communications and Media Manager (maternity cover)

Introduction

Starting salary up to £39,535 – 35 hours

Friends of the Earth is the UK’s leading environment charity with a number of high profile successes under our belt – including doorstep recycling and laws to protect our climate, wildlife and health.

We’re looking for an inspiring Communications and Media Manager with a nose for news and the leadership and creativity to deliver high impact media coverage and profile for Friends of the Earth’s leading campaigns and fundraising drives.

As the head of our Communications and Media Team, you will bring bags of initiative and first class strategy, influencing and project management skills.

Strong media relations or PR experience is essential.

Supplementary information:

If you are a creative and strategic PR or media manager with an interest in campaigning for a better world, Friends of the Earth would like to hear from you.

We are looking for an experienced Communications and Media Manager to lead our efforts to promote Friends of the Earth and our campaign messages to the media and the public.

You will head up our award-winning seven-strong Communications and Media Team, overseeing the shaping and delivery of tactics to help our campaigns set the news agenda and get people talking.

You will be a confident manager who can motivate our team of communications and media specialists to shape the news agenda to our messages and create innovative communications to raise the profile of Friends of the Earth and our work.

The role sits within our Fundraising, Communications and Activism directorate and reports to our Head of Communications. We are looking for someone with a strong grasp of the political, media and public context in which Friends of the Earth works, and the drive and ideas to create mainstream profile for our campaigns and fundraising drives.

You will need to have an appetite for working with a range of people from across Friends of the Earth to shape campaign strategy, media stories and communications tactics, and to build new alliances and contacts which help spread our messages.

Strong media relations or public relations experience within a national organisation is essential. You will be a strong project and people manager with a sound understanding of online communications, creative PR techniques and brand management.

You will lead a seven-strong team whose collective responsibilities and skills include:

· Providing an effective and rapid response to high profile media issues

· Creating and implementing communications and media strategies which raise the profile of our campaigns and help us to win them

· Offering a first class service to journalists including swift access to information, comment, interviewees and organisational expertise

· Writing articles, blogs, press releases, statements and internal and external briefings

· Commissioning online content and managing our profile on social networking sites

· Developing and managing relationships with celebrity supporters

· Managing media and public relations issues

· Briefing and training Friends of the Earth spokespeople

The Communications and Media Team works closely with many other teams in Friends of the Earth including Campaigns, Activism, Publications and New Media, Creative Communications and Fundraising.

You may occasionally be required to travel nationally and internationally, and to work outside core office hours.

You will also take part in the rota for our team’s 24-hour out-of-hours media service.

Read more here.