Senior Media Officer In-house

Senior PR Executive 

A new Senior Media Officer position has arisen to join a friendly and hard-working press office team, and work for a London Borough Council. This is an exciting role to communicate effectively the Council’s policies, defend and enhance its reputation by implementing media handling strategies for the Council’s key communications campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Implementing media handling strategies for the Council’s key communications campaigns. 
• Working with others in the media team and policy colleagues to provide a swift, accurate service to Cabinet members and journalists.
• Researching, drafting and issuing clear, concise lines to take across a range of channels.    
• Working closely with other teams in the communication directorate including campaigns and digital. 
• Analyse evidence to assess effectiveness of media handling and identify lessons learned. • Bring forward ideas of how the media team can better understand the effectiveness of its work.
• Always maintain the highest possible standards of professionalism and build good relationships with members and officers. 

Requirements

• Experience of delivering engaging digital content for our social media channels to directly reach our audiences.
• With a proactive and positive attitude, you’ll be able to cut through the policy jargon and clearly communicate our work to our audiences.
• You will also remain calm in a crisis and under pressure. Skills
• Strong news and media understanding, able to spot a good news story and issues that might pose a reputational risk for the Council. 
• Excellent communications skills both written and verbal including writing news releases, media statements or other briefing material.

Please email [email protected] for more information