Media and PR Consultant

Charity People is delighted to be supporting Young Lives vs Cancer to engage a Media and PR Consultant during a significant period of planning as they prepare for the launch and implementation of their new three year strategy. An important role within the organisation, the Media and PR Consultant will work very closely with the Director of Policy, Communications and Voice, and be responsible for developing a Media and PR strategy that supports their North Star vision, creating a media roadmap for the coming years, developing foundations of the strategy and advising on operational delivery requirements.

Media Consultant

Contract: Consultancy role, engaged for a minimum of three days per week for a three month period

Salary: paid on a day rate direct from the charity equivalent to £65,000 to £70,000 per annum

Location: Hybrid - with ties to either Farringdon and Bristol offices, or home based with travel to London and Bristol offices when required

Closing date for applications: 11.59pm on Sunday 11th August

About the role

Young Lives vs Cancer is seeking a highly skilled Media and PR leader to join them on a consultancy basis for a period of three months. The organisation has undertaken a significant piece of research in partnership with other leading children and young people cancer charities and through this research has been able to identify the areas where there are gaps in the system and in the support available to young people with cancer and their families.

The resulting is a vision that Young Lives vs Cancer, alongside partner organisations, wants the children and young people's cancer sector to own and work towards by 2035 and their new strategy has been designed to work towards this aim. Over the next three years the organisation will focus on building their capacity to guide others to work towards achieving that vision together.

As Media and PR Consultant you will lead on the development of a new media and PR strategy. Your role will include:

• Development of a Media and PR strategy
• Analysis of current media presence as well as of opportunities and challenges in the media landscape, informed by the organisational strategy
• Review of current Media Policy and internal relationships and processes, and to provide an overview of the foundations needed to launch an effective Media and PR strategy
• Review and advise on the future of interdependencies between the Media and PR team and other teams across the organisation
• Review of how media and press activity is captured and monitored
• Analysis of current approach to equipping and supporting young people and families to tell their stories in the media
• Development of an approach to establish a quality group of organisational spokespeople
• Identification of target media outlets and influencers
• Development of media messaging matrix and story angles which support organisational strategy
• Creation of a media content calendar and media outreach plan to support organisational strategy - and to dovetail with other communication calendars
• Integration of activity with Brand and Marketing Communications team - in particular Stories, audience strategy, content review, brand messaging development and system influencing engagement approach.

This is an important and senior level role within Young Lives vs Cancer, joining at an important time for the organisation, and we're keen to hear from senior Media and PR leaders who have:

• Previously worked at a senior level, for example Associate Director / Director level within the charity space and who have experience of building new strategies to support organisational goal delivery;
• Experience of galvanising support for that strategy across an organisation, including within the Senior Management Team
• Experience of advising on operational requirements to support the delivery of a new strategy

If you're interested in hearing more about this opportunity, please send your CV to Glen at Charity People in the first instance.

Charity People and Young Lives vs Cancer actively promote diversity, equality, inclusion, and belonging. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.