Press Officer

Sellick Partnership; Stoke Gifford; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Sellick Partnership is recruiting a Press Officer for a Public Sector client, based in Bristol or London. The role is interim for 6 months, full-time with a hybrid pattern requiring a minimum of 3 days in the office each week.

You will develop stakeholder relationships, support senior leadership engagement, monitor external developments and ensure insights are effectively shared across the organisation. Strong media relations and crisis communications experience are expected.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a similar role.
• Experience preparing briefings, reports or communications for senior audiences.
• Strong organisational and project coordination skills.
• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively across teams and functions.

Responsibilities

• Draft press releases, articles, letters and media content to tight deadlines.
• Handle high-profile media queries with judgement and speed.
• Produce press materials for official statistics where applicable.
• Organise press conferences and media briefings.
• Brief senior leaders for media interviews in London and other locations in England.
• Plan and evaluate communications campaigns with external relations colleagues.
• Contribute to crisis communications when needed.
• Support strategic communications for organisation projects and campaigns.
• Manage all social media content for the organisation including LinkedIn and Instagram.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Media relations

Project coordination

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Role: Press Officer

Sector: Public Sector

Duration: Interim 6 months

Location: Bristol

Salary: £23.50 PAYE per hour

Sellick Partnership is currently recruiting for an experienced Press Officer to join our client based in Bristol or London. This role is offered on a full time, hybrid role with a minimum of 3 days a week in the office.

The Press Officer will be responsible for developing and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships, supporting senior leadership engagement, monitoring external developments, and ensuring insights are effectively shared across the organisation.

The duties of the Press Officer will include;

• Ensuring press releases, articles, letters and other media content are drafted as required to tight deadlines
• Ensuring high profile and complex queries from the media are accurately and speedily handled, using judgement and autonomy as appropriate
• Using your judgement and skills in order to produce effective press releases and other associated media materials for the production of official statistics where they will often be the only member of the directorate with pre-release access
• Ensuring press conferences and media briefings are organised
• Ensuring senior leaders are effectively briefed and accompanied to media interviews - in London and other locations within England as required
• Ensuring communications campaigns are planned effectively and well evaluated in collaboration with colleagues across the external relations directorate
• Contribution to crisis communications are delivered as necessary.
• Strategic communications for specific organisation projects and campaigns are supported.
• Handling all social media content for the organisations including LinkedIn and Instagram

The Press Officer will ideally have:

• Previous experience in a similar role
• Experience preparing briefings, reports, correspondence or communications for senior audiences.
• Strong organisational and project coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively across teams and functions

The Press Officer will need to have excellent communication skills and effectively be able to communicate to stakeholders of all levels. Furthermore, the ideal candidate will have an impeccable eye for detail and accuracy to ensure all workload is carried out effectively and efficiently. They will also need to able to prioritise their workload and be efficient and effective to meet unpredictable deadlines and deal with conflicting demands, whilst working in a high-pressured environment.

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