News Media and Relations Officer
Salary: £32,000 per annum.
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Contract: 12-month fixed-term contract, 35 hours per week.
Benefits
* 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and the option to buy or sell leave.
* Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
* Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.
* Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover.
* Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.
Why Action for Children?
Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It is the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable childrens lives.
A bit about the role
We are looking for an ambitious News Media and Relations Officer to join the Action for Children team based in Glasgow, Scotland on a 12-month Fixed Term contract.
You will be responsible for planning, implementing, and delivering news and media relations activities in the UK to highlight Action for Children and issues relating to vulnerable and neglected children, young people, and their families. You will also be responsible for managing the Scottish Social Media Activity across different platforms and Internal Comms.
How youll help to create brighter futures
* Plan and deliver a number of nation, regional and local proactive and reactive media relations.
* Manage the Scottish social media across different platforms.
* Relate national, regional, and local news and media relations to corporate KPIs, the corporate and country business plans.
* Actively promote and sell Action for Children’s initiative-taking initiatives.
* Develop key relationships and engage with nation, regional and local media.
* Research and write media releases, statements, and articles.
* Co‑ordinate and deliver media meetings, press conferences and similar events.
* Function as a media spokesperson.
* Participate in the departmental news and media relations rota, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day including weekends and Bank Holidays.
Lets talk about you
* Experience of working within a press, PR, or communications office, overseeing proactive and reactive news/media.
* Experience of working with national broadcast, print, and online media.
* Experience of briefing and preparing service users and colleagues to undertake media interviews.
* Experience of working on projects/ campaigns within multidisciplinary teams to achieve shared objectives.
* Experience of planning and delivering creative news/media strategies.
* Experience of responding to crisis/reputation management issues.
* Ability to build rapport and establish, develop and maintain positive stakeholder relationships with journalists, staff, volunteers, vulnerable families, young people, and children.
* Excellent oral and written communication skills, with excellent diligence.
Please see the Job Description for the full list of accountabilities and requirements.
Contact
Email: recruitmentservice@actionforchildren.org.uk (quoting reference 12949).
We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Diversity, equality, and inclusion
At Action for Children we’re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.
We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
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Closing Date
Tuesday 21st April 2026.
Interviews
Week commencing Monday 27th April 2026.
Job Description
See below for further information about working with us: Action for Children Employee Benefits, AfC Commitment Statement, Management Competency Framework.
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