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Head Of Media

Employer
NFP People
Location
London
Salary
£52530 - £52530 Per Annum
Closing date
5 Mar 2019

Job Details

About Our Client

Our client works in partnership with people with a learning disability, and all their services support people to live life as they choose. Everyone wants a purposeful job - to do something really meaningful. Working for our client can give you that. You’ll have opportunities to develop as a person, colleague, leader and activist. They want to make you feel inspired to reach your potential.

Their work includes;

 

  • Providing high-quality, flexible services that allow people to live as independently as possible in a place they choose
  • Providing advice through our help lines and web sites
  • Campaigning for the changes that people with a learning disability want

About the Role:

Do you have senior PR experience and a passion for using media relations for positive change? Are you a strategic leader looking for an opportunity to shape an exciting new team?

Our client has a brand new role as Head of Media within their external communications department. You will be developing and implementing an ambitious media strategy, detailing how the organisation can harness the power of the media to improve the lives of people with a learning disability.

You will develop a creative and impactful media strategy for the organisation to increase the visibility of people with a learning disability across all types of media and challenge public attitudes. Navigating issues across healthcare, social care, education and employment, you will be creating diverse and impactful opportunities for sharing the organisation’s expert voice. Calm under pressure, you will have considerable experience of navigating reputational and crisis issues.

Leading the media team, you will identify opportunities to generate visibility of people with a learning disability in the media and work closely with senior colleagues to establish the media team as a key function for influence and brand awareness. With an exciting, high profile, brand partnership on the horizon, there will be plenty of scope to use your expertise to increase visibility and the public’s understanding of learning disability.

If you’ve led fast-paced and ambitious teams to deliver impactful results across national media, then this could be the role for you.

Benefits

As well as knowing that what you do is making a positive difference to people’s lives, you will receive fair pay and have access to a wide range of rewards and benefits:

 

  • 30 days holiday (including bank holidays) increasing to 35 days with long service plus the ability to buy up to another 10 days via our HolidayPlus scheme
  • Service related sick pay when 6-month probation is completed
  • Eligibility to join a Pension Plan where the organisation matches contributions up to 5% on a salary sacrifice basis meaning NI savings. If you don’t join the Plan you will be auto-enrolled into NEST
  • Membership of our client’s Pension Plan to include up to 3 times salary, death in service, live cover AND Income Protection of 50% salary to be triggered at 26 weeks of long term sickness
  • Loans for debt consolidation, bikes, computers and phones when you have been with us for 6 months
  • Interest free season ticket loans
  • Discounts and cashback from 3% to 30% at high street shops including major super markets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more
  • Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc.
  • Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
  • Quarterly award scheme and recognition at every 5 years through our YouRock program
  • Access to award winning training and development

 

Company

We are Not-For-Profit People.

We recruit exclusively for organisations in the challenging Not-For-Profit sector. We’re fully behind the charities and bodies that aim to change the world – one project at a time. Whether you’re seeking exceptional leaders, committed staff or a combination of the two, you probably want to know exactly how we’re different and why it matters to you. We don’t do business as usual. We deliver a recruitment solution that replaces clunky, costly, contracted processes with a single, seamless solution.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01234 815658
Location
6 West Street
Olney
Buckinghamshire
MK46 5HR
GB

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