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!