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<div class="mds-edited-text mds-font-body-copy-bulk"><p><strong>Summary</strong></p>
<p>This is an opportunity for a proven media relations professional to oversee the day-to-day running of the CMA’s Press Office and the delivery of a highly professional media management operation. The Press Office is vital to explaining the CMA’s functions to our key audiences as well as protecting our reputation in a complex political and commercial environment.</p>
<p><strong>Job description</strong></p>
<p>The CMA is the UK’s world-leading competition authority and as we take on more responsibilities our profile is growing. We are doing important and impactful work whether protecting consumers and driving recovery during and after the coronavirus pandemic or fostering effective competition in digital markets.<br />
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As Deputy Head of Media Relations, your main remit will be managing the day-to-day tasks of the Press Office, ensuring work is delivered to deadlines and to a high standard. Through your leadership you will oversee the work of your direct reports in a way that enhances their performance and develops their potential. While this is a leadership role on occasion you will also be expected to plan and deliver major announcements with national print and broadcast elements, as well as react to media queries. You will also provide high quality media handling advice to colleagues across the CMA, ensuring an integrated communications approach across all channels.<br />
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The successful candidate will have significant experience of handling national, regional and trade media in proactive, reactive and crisis situations, spotting reputational difficulties and ensuring the organisation is adequately prepared to respond to them. Proven experience of managing and developing individuals to ensure delivery of high-quality results is also essential.<br />
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The CMA prides itself on being a great place to work and strives to ensure that staff have the opportunity to grow and expand their skills portfolio. As well as being a hugely rewarding, diverse and stimulating place to work, you will have an opportunity to work for the public good and to stretch and develop yourself while doing so.<br />
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We offer generous benefits, including an excellent pension scheme, at least 25 days leave (increasing to 30 over five years), and generous maternity/paternity leave provision. You can also take advantage of interest-free season ticket loans, a cycle to work scheme, our employee assistance programme and favourable consideration of flexible working.</p>
<p>Responsibilities</p>
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<li>To manage the day-to-day tasks of the Press Office, ensuring work is delivered to deadlines and to a high standard.</li>
<li>To provide management and leadership of the CMA press team and oversee the work of the direct reports effectively in a way that enhances their performance and develops their potential.</li>
<li>To generate high quality, creative content designed to appeal to a wide range of audiences, including written work.</li>
<li>To provide high quality media handling advice to colleagues across the CMA and the implement that handling – both in terms of proactive work and responding effectively in reactive and crisis situations.</li>
<li>To maintain a culture of professionalism and ensure adherence to process.</li>
<li>To support the personal development of the team including by identifying opportunities for Learning and Development</li>
<li>To contribute to developing better ways of working by identifying areas for improvement</li>
<li>To take a lead in news planning by overseeing the function and responding to grid requests from inside the CMA</li>
<li>To ensure the team works closely with colleagues in digital and advocacy to deliver an integrated communications approach</li>
<li>To support the team to deliver effective and measurable communications handling plans based on insight and an understanding of audience</li>
<li>To provide shared oversight of the CMA’s out of hours on call rota (this involves some work outside of core employment hours).</li>
<li>Any other reasonable duties</li>
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<p><strong>To find out more about this opportunity and about working for the CMA, please click on the APPLY button.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 10th January 2022​.</strong></p>
<p>During the Covid-19 pandemic period, our staff at the CMA have been required to work from home to continue delivering our objectives. From October 2021 onwards, the CMA, like many other organisations, will move to a hybrid working model with a mix of office and home working. We believe this supports us to deliver our best work while allowing the flexibility to maintain balanced and healthy lives. Our staff work at least 50% of their time from their office location.</p>
<p><em>The CMA are an accredited Disability Confident Employer, and we are an equal opportunities employer, welcoming suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.</em></p>