Job Title: Media Manager
Location: Hybrid with minimum 8 office days per month in either London or Leeds office
Contract: Full time, Permanent
Salary: £45,000
BookTrust is the UK’s largest children’s reading charity. Our work is rooted in the belief that every child deserves the chance to enjoy reading and all the lifelong benefits it brings. With our new strategy, we will focus on helping children from low-income and vulnerable family backgrounds to become regular readers.
Working with every local authority and across every region in the country, and supported by Arts Council funding, we reach over 1.3 million children and families a year via partners in schools, children’s centres, health visitors and libraries. This incredible network helps us to get children reading across the country.
Job summary:
As BookTrust’s Media Manager, you will play a key role in helping us raise our profile and to reinforce messaging our areas of expertise and our core strengths. Specifically, it will be your role to:
* Deliver BookTrust’s Media Strategy, reflecting the priorities from our overarching organisational strategy and organisational needs and priorities, including wider comms and policy / influencing plans
* Liaise with colleagues across our organisation to identify media requirements and potential news stories Identify long-term and tactical opportunities to place stories and comment with national, trade or local press.
* Identify and develop opportunities to build relationships with key journalists and publications.
* Act as a media spokesperson and liaison on behalf of BookTrust Create content, including press releases and quotes for distribution.
* Develop media messaging and provide briefings for spokespeople.
* Monitor media activity and sentiment in the areas BookTrust is active in. Report on BookTrust’s media profile.
* Provide a reactive press office function for BookTrust Ensure crisis communication procedures are in place.
To apply please complete the application along with your CV and covering letter showing how you meet the person specification and your motivations for applying for the role. Your covering letter should not be longer than 600 words.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusivity
We aim to provide an inclusive recruitment process and actively welcome applications from diverse talent pools: minority ethnic candidates, candidates with disabilities and long-term conditions and candidates from underrepresented communities.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and want to ensure we have an accessible application process for all candidates. If you need any reasonable adjustments or would like us to do anything differently during the application process, please contact our HR team020 7801 8866/8856 to discuss your requirements further.
BookTrust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The recruitment and selection process reflect our commitment to safeguarding and therefore, the suitability of all prospective employees will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment, and pre-employment checks.
Closing date:Sunday 13 July 10PM. We may choose to close applications early if we have received sufficient numbers of quality applications, so please don’t wait until the closing date to apply.
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