Position Overview & Specifications
This is a great opportunity to join the UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK) as PR & Media Officer working in a fast-paced and busy press office responsible for delivering world class communications for UNICEF UK’s public fundraising and brand campaigns, as well as delivering news-focused media for humanitarian and policy-led issues.
You will manage relationships with both news and consumer-focused journalists across UK media, working with UK and global colleagues to deliver effective and well messaged multi-media coverage for UNICEF UK’s humanitarian emergencies and child’s rights issues. You will deliver media relations for high-profile communications and fundraising campaigns such as Soccer Aid for UNICEF and World Children’s Day as well as leading on key relationships with UNICEF offices around the world to develop news-led features.
To succeed in this role, you will have:
- proven experience of working in a busy press office and/or PR agency
- an excellent track record in developing, delivering, and evaluating audience centric, objectives-focused media strategies and media engagement activity
- first class interpersonal and relationship management skills, including with journalists to aid effective media relations – with a focus on News and PR
- strong interest in child and human rights issues, with an understanding and awareness of the broader consumer, news and digital media landscape
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Benefits – UNICEF UK salaries and benefits are benchmarked against other organizations in the charity sector.