Communications Officer

Compass is looking to recruit a Communications Officer as we enter an exciting new period for UK politics in 2025.

The Communications Officer will take a lead on commissioning, producing and distributing our content to help grow awareness of Compass and our work. We’re looking for a communications generalist, who has experience working with social media, media and digital communications.

You should be motivated and experienced in comms work and able to create stories, content and messaging to help Compass appeal to different audiences. You should have a background in journalism, campaigns or public relations and have a keen understanding of the political landscape in which Compass works. You should be a self-starter, with a proven ability to self-organise and comfortable working within a small, dynamic team. You should be interested in progressive political ideas and working in a pluralist, open way to make change happen.

The Communications Officer will work closely with Compass’ campaigns teams, as well as a broad network of partners, associates and volunteers. We run campaigns on democratic reform, climate justice, inequality and cross-party cooperation and this post will support our communications work across all campaigns.

We are looking for an energetic, creative and agile thinker, with a keen eye for a good story, curiosity about politics, and a passion for political change. This role is suitable for someone who wants to work flexibly and hard, responding to political events as they unfold and developing a powerful narrative that could help us build the power of progressives in the UK and land some big campaign wins.

This role involves:

• Working across a range of media - written publications, our podcast and online digital comms - to help Compass tell powerful and engaging stories to our membership and the wider public.
• Helping harness creative communications to increase our supporter base on email and social media
• Commissioning blogs and publications from a range of writers that help Compass deepen our political argument and broaden our network. Working with the editors of the journal ‘Renewal’ to elevate the best new thinkers, especially from people under-represented in our politics. Helping raise up our work on a ‘New Settlement’ for British politics.
• Contributing media expertise to the communications work of our campaigns team by identifying media interventions and writing press releases to publicise our work.
• Developing compelling messaging and framing, and ensuring message discipline across all our comms.
• Adopting a creative approach to amplifying campaign messages across both traditional media (print and broadcast) and social media. 

Full full details and how to apply see the full specification. 

Compass is committed to providing equal opportunities to people regardless of background and we actively seek applications from people with backgrounds that are underrepresented in our sector, especially with regards to race and class. We recognise that representation in our sector is not good enough; this makes our politics and our campaigns weaker. As such, we particularly encourage applications from people who can demonstrate the skills, even if they have never worked in this precise field. We welcome people to apply who can demonstrate their aptitude, even if a career in politics has so far been closed off to them.