National Senior PR Manager

National Senior PR Manager
37.5 hours per week
Hybrid / Homebased (outside M25)
£ 50,000 per annum

FIXED TERM CONTRACT 12 MONTHS

1 day per week minimum in London Office


About the role:

You will be responsible for shaping our PR strategy and the delivery of key objectives, stories and campaigns that achieve media coverage nationally, and in regional media that fall outside of our hospice catchment areas.

In the role, you will lead on securing media coverage across all areas of the charity’s work, with a focus on our influencing (policy, public affairs) and bereavement.

You will manage our retained agency, a PR officer and a senior PR officer.

Responsibility for the effective and efficient running of our press office function, resulting in planned and reactive media coverage, including the co-ordination of out of hours responses, where necessary, sits with this role

You will lead on reputation management issues with the support of the head of PR.

You are responsible for running the national PR team, covering both press office activity, supporting key organisational projects, and PR campaigns.

This role interacts with colleagues across all functions of the charity and you will regularly meet and collaborate with teams across marcomms.

You will be required to advise and brief senior colleagues, up to and including the chief executive, ahead of media interviews, campaign launches and on crisis communications.

About you:

• Have impeccable attention to detail
• Have experience of leading PR campaigns and managing a PR agency
• Have experience in advising senior colleagues including executive leadership teams and chief executives when managing the media both within a crisis and in relation to reputation management issues

Essential Criteria
• Have extensive experience supporting policy and public affairs teams, understanding how to take complex policy and turn it into compelling news
• Understand how to capitalise on policy/Government events in our space and insert Sue Ryder’s voice into the conversation
• Have a deep understanding of the media and how it works
• Have extensive experience of media monitoring and evaluation platforms
• Write impactful and engaging stories for the media in different formats (press release, comments, op-eds) and be able to coach your team to do the same
• Be a confident, clear and effective communicator at all levels of the charity
• Be an experienced line manager
• Have extensive experience of managing journalists, especially in pressured circumstances, such as when dealing with reputational issues and crisis
• Have experience managing relationships with celebrities and their agents


Occasional travel within England is required for this role. From time-to-time, you will be required to work outside of traditional office hours.

Closing date: 2nd April
Interviews: CVs reviewed as received

We reserve the right to close this advert prior to the closing date should we feel we have a sufficient number of suitable applications.

Sue Ryder is here to make sure everyone approaching the end of their life or living with grief can access the support they need. There is no one size fits all when it comes to how we cope and the help we need, but with our support, no one has to face dying or grief alone.

Benefits
Company pension scheme
27 days holiday - rising to 33 with length of service plus bank holidays
Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
Enhanced sick pay
Employee Networks - LGBTQ+, Ethnic Diversity and Equality, People with Disabilities, and Women and Non Binary Individuals
Staff discount of 10% on new goods online at shop.sueryder.org
Structured induction programme and learning and development opportunities.

For more of our employee benefits please visit our website.

https://www.sueryder.org/jobs/why-work-for-sue-ryder

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and continue to make Sue Ryder a great place to work, and attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.
We are particularly interested in increasing applications from the global majority, LGBTQIA+ and people with disabilities as they are currently underrepresented in our organisation.

For more information on our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion work, please visit: https://www.sueryder.org/jobs/equity-diversity-inclusion

If you require support to compete an application or participate fully in the interview process, please email recruitment@sueryder.org.

Please let us know if you have any feedback to make our recruitment processes more accessible and inclusive or if you require any adjustments made to your application or interview process by emailing recruitment@sueryder.org

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