Press Officer

One of the UK’s largest insurance firms is looking to recruit a Press Officer for its London office to help develop and promote the reputation of the organisation.

Key responsibilities include:

• To be responsible for developing contacts with media to enable fair and accurate reporting of the company’s aims and performance, and to promote and support its image.
• To be responsible for accurate media coverage.
• To support the activity of retained public relations agencies in achieving positive press and media coverage on the company product and service performance, in-line with brand values.
• To help the business win awards, by co-ordinating, drafting and submitting entries.
• To help minimise negative media coverage by investigating customer complaints and responding with a timely and appropriate response.
• To build and maintain a bank of customer case studies for use with the media.
• To reflect the principles behind our brand values in all our relationships with management, staff, contractors, media and customers.
• To support sponsorship and community projects with the use of PR.
• To support the media relations manager in managing internal stakeholders.
• To support wider communications team in corporate activity, i.e. drafting articles, organising events, etc.
• To encourage the business to support the press office and its activities.

Desirable competencies:

• Experience in public relations.
• Broad knowledge of financial services and products as well as all media operations.
• Excellent writing and editing skills.
• High level of influencing skills to be able to create positive outcomes for the business.
• High level of interpersonal skills to be able to build relationships with influential journalists.
• Comfortable dealing with all levels of management and staff and possessing wide organisational knowledge.
• Flexible approach, able to work to tight deadlines involving complex and variable business subject matter.
• Good attention to detail and ability to work on own initiative.

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