PR Officer - Charity

PR Officer - £29,000 - £36,000

This well-respected national charity is looking for a PR professional to join their growing PR team. Within this role you can look forward to joining a charity with a busy year ahead and take responsibility for the regional and local PR within a specific area of the UK.

 Key Responsibilities:

• Identify opportunities and set clearly agreed targets and objectives with the PR Manager.

• Identify and source consultancies to help deliver these programmes where appropriate, managing them to ensure that communications objectives are delivered and monitoring costs and performance against agreed targets.

• Identify key opportunities and anticipate risks and challenges, adopting a proactive approach to problem-solving and mitigation.

• Research develop and co-ordinate media campaigns. Write and edit press releases; articles for in-house and external publications, creating speeches and items for the organisation's website and intranet.

• Provide social media support such as Facebook, Twitter and relevant bloggers, incorporating new media platforms in the development, execution, monitoring and evaluation of all PR campaigns where warranted and generating social media and digital content as required.

Key Skills:

• Good understanding of communication channels and the media landscape
• Flawless writing skills
• Good understanding of planning processes and requirements
• Confidence when communicating with senior clients and media
• Confident when presenting and networking

You must demonstrate experience in developing and delivering PR plans and campaigns, and will have worked with journalists at the national or regional level in securing significant media coverage.

PLEASE NOTE: As much as we would love to respond to all applicants, due to the sheer volume of applications we receive we are unable to respond to unsuccessful candidates. If you have not heard from us within 7 days of sending your CV, unfortunately you have not been selected for the position.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.