Description
Press Officer/Media Relations/Communications Officer required for a leading global defence company based in Farnborough. The Press Officer plays a key role in helping manage the press office and provide support to specific defence businesses. The primary purpose of the role will be to manage the day-to-day running of the press office.
Duties:
- Write, develop, edit press releases and other content (online, backgrounders, Q&A etc) from the business or from third party industry partners
- Issue press releases to the media and ensure it appears in all relevant channels (website, Twitter etc)
- Manage, monitor and take responsibility for corporate social media channels and their content
- Manage approval process with industry stakeholders (MOD,DSTL, industry partners) giving proper regard to responsibilities as a listed company
- Develop relationships with industry press offices (in particular MOD and DSTL)
- Manage media lists and photo library ensuring up to date
- Responsibility for managing/collating media coverage and liaising with press cuttings providers
- Develop key media contacts with relevant trade and local media for the industry
- Sharing on-call press office duties, responding to media enquires, often from national or broadcast journalists on tight deadlines
- Issues management; drafting press statements ( getting approval where appropriate) and managing and informing relevant stakeholders
Skills:
- Experience as a Press Officer/Media Relations/Communications Officer
- Must have to ability to be Security Cleared
- Social Media experience
- Experience of crisis communications
- Experience of defence industry
- Minimum of three years' media relations experience either agency or in-house