Description
Sopra Steria Recruitment are working in partnership with a Public sector organisation to hire a Press Officer/Media Advisor based in Nottingham. Role spec below. Many thanks.
Rate: up to £260 per day
Contract: 3 months (with possible extension)
Job Purpose:
- Provide a highly-responsive reactive media handling capability, as well as proactively creating and seeding stories, and developing quality direct-to-consumer' campaigns and content using digital and social media.
- Deliver informative external communications to assist the effective operation of client's services and promote the agency's vision, priorities and policies.
- Ensure all communications activity is insight-driven and fully evaluated.
Essential:
- Experience of working in a press office
- Experience of working with the media, including digital and social media
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- The ability to write clearly and simply, using plain English
- A practical understanding of how print, broadcast and digital media work, including the media cycle, circulation and deadlines
- Negotiation and persuasion skills; ability to build alliances to make a case
- The ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines
- A practical understanding of emerging digital services, tools and trends, including techniques for optimising digital content
Desirable: (Not mandatory)
- Understanding of the theory and practice of behaviour change
- Ability to carry out data analysis to understand audiences
- An awareness of the agency's work and wider government priorities