Strategic Media Manager

OXFAM; Packmoor; Ibrido; GBP 37.000 - 40.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Flexible working options

Generous pension scheme

Annual leave

Company sick pay

Life assurance

Descrizione del lavoro

Oxfam is looking for a Strategic Media Manager to design and deliver bold media moments with a digital-first mindset. You will develop compelling stories, stunts, and pitches to spark headlines and conversations across social feeds while aligning with our mission to end poverty and injustice.

The role requires leadership in a dynamic 24-hour multimedia environment, strong project management, and the ability to shape narratives that influence public attitudes and policy.

Competenze

• Experience designing and delivering high-impact media moments.
• Proven ability to lead media campaigns in fast-paced environments.
• Strong understanding of both digital and traditional media landscapes.

Mansioni

• Lead the design and delivery of bold, high-impact media moments that break through the noise.
• Develop compelling stories, stunts, and media pitches for headlines and social conversations.
• Align campaigns with Oxfam's values, advocacy, and public influencing goals.
• Manage media campaigns and events with strong project execution.

Conoscenze

Media relations

Digital storytelling

Strategic communications

Leadership

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Policy awareness

Copywriting

Strumenti

Social media platforms

Media analytics tools

Descrizione del lavoro

• Location:Oxfam House - Oxford, Oxford UK/ (with the ability to work from home under Oxfam GB's hybrid working arrangements)
• Workplace Type:Hybrid
• Hours:36 hours per week
• Salary:£36,826-£40,000 per annum
• Job Family:Communications
• Division:CEO Office
• Grade:C
• Job Type:Fixed Term
• Closing Date:26 October 2026
• Country:United Kingdom

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

Oxfam is looking for a Strategic Media Managerto lead the design and delivery of bold, high-impact media moments that break through the noise. In this role, you'll bring a digital-first mindset to earned media—developing compelling stories, stunts, and media pitches that make headlines and spark conversations across social feeds.

Your work will not only be eye-catching but mission-driven—aligned with Oxfam’s values and public influencing goals. From shaping narratives to shifting public attitudes and policy, every campaign you lead will help advance our fight against poverty and injustice. If you're ready to make a real‑world impact through strategic storytelling, we want to hear from you.

We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam's mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.

An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:

• Lived experience(s) or evidence of learning/taking action on anti-racism and inequalities.
• Deep knowledge of a wide range of digital and traditional media andsocial media platforms
• Experience of leadership within a dynamic 24-hour multimedia newsroom thatsupports organisational objectives.
• Understands politics and the role of people power in influencing powerholders.
• Ability to design and implement innovative, attention‑grabbing media campaigns.
• Project managementskills and ability to deliver media stunts or events.
• Understanding of how media engagement can complement and amplify advocacy, influencing and campaigning.
• Creative storytellerwho can inspire diverse audiences.

We offer a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits to staff including flexible working options, generous pension scheme, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance and a range of other benefits.

From the day you join Oxfam we invite you to stretch and learn in your role. Our wide range of Learning & Development opportunities includes in-house courses, e-learning modules, on‑the‑job learning opportunities, coaching and mentoring, and much more.

You can read more about all Oxfam has to offer here.

Flexfam:

We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you.

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks.Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.

A thriving diverse Oxfam:

It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organisation working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity and inclusion across our community of staff, partners and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.

To do that:

• We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
• We need an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring who they are to our work and feels celebrated for the differences they bring.
• We want and need everyone, and that means we need you.