Do you want to help power your career and be part of an evolving energy industry?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic PR and Campaigns Advisor to join our Communications Team.
The successful candidate will be responsible for providing high quality proactive communications content across Northern Powergrid’s channels that meets our communications priorities through promoting business activities, organising events and preparing promotional materials. Delivering of effective, targeted external publicity campaigns from concept through to delivery and evaluation, aligned with Northern Powergrid business objectives.
Along with a competitive salary between £35,00 and £40,000 depending on experience, we also offer;
* Up to 10% annual performance bonus
* Enrolment into our double-matched pension scheme
* 25 days holiday per year increasing with tenure, plus bank holidays
Key Responsibilities:
* Produce engaging and diverse PR content (video and editing, imagery, infographics, audio and content) for promotion across Northern Powergrid’s website and organic social media channels.
* Deliver a creative, targeted external PR and campaigns through effective reactive and proactive communications and sponsorship opportunities.
* Creating and delivering a range of paid digital communications campaigns.
* Creating and managing website content for the Northern Powergrid corporate website, maintaining the quality and a creative digital experience for customers and stakeholders.
* Generate proactive news releases and engaging with local, national and trade media to secure coverage.
* Responding to escalated media enquiries, drafting statements, engaging with media and briefing company spokespeople for media engagements.
* Supporting the delivery of consistent branding across Northern Powergrid’s external communications including updating existing materials and creating new corporate content.
* Managing Northern Powergrid’s media monitoring and evaluating press office activity.
* Supporting the PR & Campaigns Manager by representing Northern Powergrid on energy industry communications and campaign groups, as appropriate.
* Monitoring and reviewing the effectiveness of external communications channels, including the corporate website.
* Provide out of hours support for communications as a participant of the response/recovery team to deliver effective communications in major incidents and take part in the out of hours rota.
Key Competencies:
* Creative skills to develop content that influences, informs and engages media, customers and other key stakeholders.
* Strong organisational skills for Project and Event Management
* Ability to work effectively with different teams and stakeholders
* Competence in delivering clear and effective communications during crisis or emergency situations
* Ability to manage complex media issues with reputational implications for Northern Powergrid.
* Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills including experience of building effective working relationships with colleagues as well as the managing media and external agencies.
Qualifications and Attributes
Essential Qualifications and Experience:
* Experience in media management and/or PR campaign delivery experience.
* Highly developed writing and content production skills including social media, video and audio.
* High level competency with Microsoft IT packages.
* Experienced and confident communicating with senior leaders.
* Experienced in crisis management.
* Full valid UK driving license.
Desirable Qualifications:
* Experience of videography and video editing, as well as using systems such as Hootsuite and Google Analytics would be advantageous.
* Experience of using CMS and managing corporate web copy.
* Experience of Adobe Creative Suite.
Applicants are considered on the basis of their suitability for the post irrespective of sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender re-assignment, race, age or disability, in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.