Media Manager

Overview

Manage media relations, content creation and strategic communications for a public sector org.

Key Responsibilities

• strategic planning
• media relations
• social media
• content creation
• out‑of‑hours
• campaign support

Tasks

- Supporting strategic comms planning and providing handling advice and support on maximising audience reach for significant announcements or events via established media, social media and other channels, while anticipating and mitigating presentational risks/challenges. - After your first few months of service, participating in the out-of-hours duty comms system, including evening, weekend and public holiday working. - Playing an active role in organisation’s campaigns, working alongside marketing and insight colleagues. - Creating, sharing and evaluating dynamic content — including photo and video capture — through organisation’s social media channels. - Delivering media relations services including drafting, publishing and promoting news releases; designing and delivering external media opportunities and other 'proactive' content-capture events; and responding — in writing and at times by verbal briefing of journalists.

Requirements

• resilience
• content creation
• problem solving
• stakeholder advice
• relationship building
• journalist liaison

What You Bring

- The ability to maintain personal resilience through periods of sustained pressure caused by external events, workloads and resource challenges. - An understanding of the changing way in which content is created and consumed and the ability to create dynamic content for a variety of channels. - The ability to identify potential problems and react quickly, ensuring stakeholders receive timely and professional presentational advice. - The ability to build and maintain relationships, while working with journalists and other key influencers to inform the public of policies, positions and record.

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About Venesky Brown

-Grew from a single office to nationwide coverage via hubs in Edinburgh, Milton Keynes & Birmingham. -Delivers bespoke recruitment for major public-private projects—from energy and rail to higher education and digital transformation. -Team expertise spans Construction, Engineering, IT & Digital, Professional Services and Public Sector frameworks. -Staff volunteered with Cross Tay Link Road project to aid school grounds restoration.

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