PR Executive - IN HOUSE

This stunning, interesting, historic Mediterranean country has a small, successful tourist office based in Central London, looking for a PR Executive to cover a 9 month contract starting within 4 weeks!

The role is to promote this destination to the UK and Ireland public.  The client is government funded, therefore all stages of delivery have a process and require tenacity, thoroughness, patience, pro-activeness, sometimes a democratic approach, amazing communication and a good sense of humour!   You will be able to communicate with many different personalities and be understanding of language barriers and difference in cultures, though this is very much a UK focused role.

You will be responsible for liaising closely with the external PR agency and lifestyle media. Your main but not limited responsibility is to ensure all public relations activities across the business are delivered in a co-ordinated and effective way.  

You will have proven experience in a similar role, ideally with some travel PR experience but above all, be an enthusiastic hands on PR, who is willing to get stuck in to all! Duties will include but are not limited to, managing the PR agency, press trips, copy writing, proof reading, creating and delivering events along with implementation of the monthly reports.

This is a great short-mid-term opportunity for a strong PR Executive. The role is 4.5 days a week, Monday to Friday, with set hours, not at all like agency life! The role comes with 28 days holiday plus bank holidays! The only time you will be required to do extra is for one Sunday in November for the WTM.  Fridays the office closes at 1pm, giving you a long weekend every weekend! 

Typical responsibilities of the job include:

• Write reports & press releases
• Management of an external PR agency for projects  
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with top tier UK journalists
• Developing press trips 
• Undertaking day-to-day administration
• Liaising with head office
• Manage information enquiries/preparing visitor information
• Willingness to get 'stuck-in' with Ad-hoc work

Key skills

• Excellent communication 
• Confident
• Strong administration 
• Good organisation
• Enthusiastic about the product
• Adaptable & resourceful
• A real team player