Senior PR Officer

Location: Hybrid/homebased with 1 day in Leicester office per month

Salary: £31,573 to £33,235

Our client, has a clear objective: to help sustain a resilient and empowered community, including serving personnel, veterans and their families. Through their sector leading services, they offer friendship to the isolated and lonely, sheltered housing for those who want to remain proudly independent and childcare to serving personnel on their stations.

About the Role

The Senior PR Officer will be responsible for delivering targeted, impactful media coverage that highlights the work of the Association, increases understanding and awareness of its activities, and grows and protects its reputation. The SPO will be responsible for developing and maintaining a strong network of contacts within the media, delivering effective PR activity that aligns with strategic priorities whilst also contributing to the running of an effective press office. This is a lovely role where you will be building relationships with journalists and landing media coverage. You'll be reporting into a brilliant Corporate Communications Manager, and also get the opportunity to line manage.

About You

Experience in PR/journalism is an essential. You'll have a thorough knowledge of media law, other applicable legislation and ethical codes of practice. With a proven track record of gaining coverage (National or regional) you'll have the ability to impart key messages clearly, concisely and convincingly. Experience of acting as a spokesperson is highly desirable. This is a lovely role which requires a creative individual (experience of taking high quality photographs along with filming and editing video content would be brilliant too)

For more information about this role please send your CV in the first instance to Ellen Drummond at Charity People.

Closing 22nd December but please get in touch ASAP so we can get the conversation started sooner.

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities with which we work.