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ST MUNGO COMMUNITY HOUSING ASSOCIATION
41,881 - 45,380 per year
London
Full-time
28th January 2026

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Location Hybrid - London and home working

Salary £41,881-£45,380 pa

Fixed Term Contract/Full time/37.5 hours per week

This is a Permanent, Full time vacancy that will close in 12 days at 10:00 GMT.

About The Role

Are you an experienced Media or PR professional looking for the next step up in your career?

This post is offered as a fixed term contract until 19/03/2027 (Maternity cover)

With homelessness at record highs, St Mungo’s are looking for a politically engaged, creative, and driven Press and PR Officer to amplify our frontline work and influence efforts to end homelessness for good.

You’ll join a small, dynamic team of three and lead all media and PR activity linked to our policy, research, and influencing work. This is a pivotal role in our busy press office, building strong relationships with political and social affairs journalists to share compelling stories from one of the UK’s leading homelessness charities.

In this role, you will:

  • Respond to varied media requests, from service visits to commentary on major Government announcements like the National Plan to End Homelessness.
  • Create impactful, politically savvy press materials, press releases, opinion pieces, responses to breaking news and letters to editors.
  • Advise senior leaders on policy-related PR, providing briefings and practice interviews.
  • Use St Mungo’s data creatively to tell stories about issues affecting people experiencing homelessness.
  • Support ministerial visits and collaborate with government and sector partners to showcase our frontline work.

About you

You might already be working as a Senior Press and PR officer looking for a new challenge or looking for the next step in your media career. To be successful in this exciting role you will be someone who:

  • Thrives under-pressure and can juggle multiple and competing demands, while prioritising your own workload.
  • Is a team player who is happy to take ownership of projects and step up to support colleagues at all levels as required.
  • Works with a solution focused approach who can see the ‘big picture’ and problem solve in a pressurised environment.
  • Has excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Has experience of delivering proactive PR and communications campaigns and the ability to deal with crisis communications.

In this role you will be required to work flexibly for at least 2 days per week from our Central Office in London. This allows for training, in person collaboration, team building, and other relationship building opportunities. We support a flexible approach to work with opportunities for agile working for the rest of your week; from home, or other St Mungo’s London or regional locations.

While our Central Office is currently based in Tower Hill, London we plan to relocate in the summer of 2026 to a new space in Farringdon, London.

How to apply

To view the job description and guidance on completing your application form, please click on the ‘document’ tab on the advert page on our website.

When you're ready to apply click the ‘Apply Now’ Button to submit your CV and Supporting Statement.

Closing date: 10am 28 January 2026

Interview and assessments on 5-6 February 2026

St Mungo's are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage applications from all under-represented groups.

About Us

Our purpose is to end homelessness and rebuild lives. It drives everything that we do. For the past 55 years, we have been on the ground every day and every night, supporting people to recover from homelessness and advocating for change. We support around 28,000 people each year and our work means that more than 2,700 people have somewhere safe to stay each night.

What We Offer

We are working hard to create a diverse and fully inclusive culture where all colleagues feel valued, and we welcome applications from all under-represented groups. We believe that equity, diversity and inclusion improves the health, wellbeing and development of our colleagues and helps to ensure everyone feels valued. We know that when diversity, inclusion and wellbeing are prioritised, we are happier, healthier and can ultimately achieve better outcomes for our clients.

Below are some of our key focus areas to improve both our candidate and colleague experience:

  • A growing number of diversity networks including LGBTQ+, Womens Action, Lived Experience and Anti-Racist networks.
  • Increasing visibility by ensuring that all interview panels across the organisation are diversely represented to ensure fair and balanced decision making during the recruitment process.
  • A safe and supportive working environment championing positive action via various internal schemes such as upward mentoring and a Steps into Management programme.
  • Mandatory Diversity & Inclusion training for all staff, unconscious bias training for managers, and a range of other courses such as Trans awareness and Autism Awareness.
  • In recognition of the importance of transparency, we publish our employee diversity statistics and pay gap reports on our website.

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We offer a comprehensive package of benefits to our colleagues to ensure wellbeing remains a key priority. Maintaining a good work life balance can be tricky, but with family friendly policies, flexible and agile working options and an incremental annual leave allowance, we are committed to making sure you have the options available as and when you need them.

These include:

  • Agile working model for suitable roles.
  • Supportive flexitime and toil arrangements.
  • 28 days annual leave rising to 31 after five years’ service.
  • Family friendly leave policies including - maternity, adoption and parental leave. Carers leave, and fertility treatment leave.
  • Financial wellbeing platform offering loans, advances and saving options.
  • Auto-enrolment to pension scheme after six months service with an employer contribution of 6%.
  • Employee Assistance Programme and access to SmartHealth app – 24/7 GP appointments, health checks and nutrition advice.
  • Cycle to Work scheme and interest free season ticket loans.
  • Discount vouchers including gym, retail, food & drink, travel, electricals and more.

Want to find out more? Want to find out more? Click here to visit our Work For Us page.

At St Mungo’s we are committed to providing development opportunities for all our colleagues. We welcome people with a wide range of experiences and value transferable skills so that we can provide the best support for people experiencing homelessness. That’s why we have a robust induction, training and development programme that supports colleagues throughout their career at St Mungo’s.

These include:

  • Highly praised internal training courses and access to external learning to build your skills and meet your professional development goals.
  • Steps into Management programme to support colleague progression.
  • Commitment to continued professional development with access to career development forums, internal mentoring and internal secondment opportunities.

Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungo’s current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.

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