Published On:
4th, July 2023
Closes on:
17th, July 2023
Job closed
Job Description
As Media Lead, you would be tasked with delivering a new global framework to deliver hard-hitting media briefings and newsworthy research to drive public engagement and profile-building objectives.
With substantial experience working in media relations, you’ll be ready to hit the ground running, using your excellent news sense and target-smashing media strategies to lead and build on the successes of ActionAid International’s high-performing media team.
Responsibilities:
- An expert communicator with a track record of delivering media strategies that drive up the quality and quantity of coverage and build profile.
- An excellent decision-maker, used to working under pressure, with demonstrable experience in crisis comms and reputational risk management.
- An entrepreneurial and determined relationship builder, with a strong awareness of climate media, who sees opportunities where others see
problems.
- An excellent writer/editor – including press releases, features, opinion pieces, letters to editor and blogs – particularly to meet tight deadlines.
- A collaborative worker with proven ability to navigate difference perspectives and work effectively in a complex organisation
- You should also have strong commitment to ActionAid’s values and ethos, including ActionAid’s feminist leadership principles.
Requirements:
- What we offer:
ActionAid is committed to providing a welcoming, supportive workplace where we recognise a job well done, encourage close collaboration and sharing power, and where safeguarding standards and feminist leadership are exemplified everywhere. At ActionAid, you can look forward to a fair compensation package and a flexible working environment, including;
- A workplace that embraces intersectional feminist principles
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption pay