PR Coordinator
Competitive Negotiable Salary DoE + Great Benefits
Are you looking for an exciting and varied new PR support role which allows you to combine your passion for facilitating innovative communication strategies with a desire to help increase awareness of the fight against cancer?
As demand continues to increase our client is looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated self-starter to join the PR & Marketing team.
This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of an exciting organisation responsible for PR around some of the most high-profile participation events in the UK.
As a leading charity now entering its 3rd decade, our client is a well-established organisation with an instantly recognisable profile.
Their supporters have helped to raise over £139m allowing them to drive their missions of supporting future health and well-being and increasing awareness.
The ideal candidate will have some previous experience in a support or coordination role with a PR/comms focus, ideally in the voluntary or third sector.
Given the nature of the role and the size of the organisations, flexibility and adaptability are key requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Working with PR team, develop new and innovative ways to launch new events and generate press coverage
- Dealing with press enquiries and requests, along with PR and Comms Director
- Keep and update coverage lists and manage all other elements of media monitoring
- Working with the PR team to draft press releases - including putting them on the website
- Working with the PR team to draft blog content for emails and social media
- Liaising with benefitting charities regarding volunteers and social media posts
- Keep media distribution lists up to date
- Updating elements of the media page on the website
- Liaising with social media team to pull together plans and ideas for content
- Guest List Planning - including invites and packing crates
- Manage and pulling together press packs
- Help to deliver media coverage through high quality proactive and reactive media engagement.
Skills & Experience
- A minimum of 12 months' experience of working within an administrative role.
- Previous experience of working in a fast-moving environment.
- Experience of working and implementing a change in an environment where customer service is a critical requirement
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal at all levels and to be able to grasp the language and mood of the charity
- Excellent grasp of the English language - spelling
- Excellent telephone, interpersonal, negotiation and assertiveness skills in dealing with problem solving
- Excellent organisational skills, accuracy and attention to detail
- Adaptable and resourceful - able to prioritise workload and meet deadlines, whilst responding to multiple demands from a variety of sources
- Used to working with sensitive and confidential information.
- An excellent knowledge of IT including Excel, Word and web databases
- Understanding of breast cancer issues - (or willingness to develop knowledge of these issues) and the ability to deal sensitively and empathetically with these issues in practice
- An understanding or interest in general health and sport - Desirable
- Previous experience of working for a charity - Desirable
- Previous experience in dealing directly with the public - Desirable
This is a wonderful opportunity for an engaging, highly organised PR Coordinator with solid foundation level comms experience and a drive to take on an important support role within a leading, highly prominent cancer charity.
A competitive salary and benefits package is available, alongside genuine career development opportunities.
Apply now!
- Start: ASAP
- Rate: Negotiable Salary DoE + Great Benefits
- Location: Woking, England
- Type: Permanent
- Industry: Sales
- Recruiter: MaxAd Recruitment Ltd
- Contact: Edward Cartledge
- Email: to view click here
- Posted: 2024-07-31 16:48:55 -
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