Media and PR Manager

Amnesty International UK has a simple aim: an end to human rights abuses. Independent, international and influential, we campaign for justice, fairness, freedom and truth wherever they are denied. If you want to use your skills, knowledge, and experience to be successful in this role, you could be our new Media & PR Manager.

About the media team

Amnesty UK's media team is called upon by most departments to showcase, promote and publicise their work. There is no campaign, event, stunt, publication, piece of research or other product which doesn't look to the press team for support and press coverage. 

In many ways, the media team bookends much of the organisation's most high-profile campaigning work - starting with media strategies, through to crafting messaging, briefing spokespeople, issuing press releases, connecting with journalists and setting up interviews. The media coverage achieved is often considered to be a key indicator in how a campaign or report has performed against the organisation's objectives. 

The team also work with their counterparts and research teams from around the world who want their reports and comments profiled in the UK media. 

The media team also operate an on-call rota service out of office hours. This means that every morning, evening and weekend throughout the year a media manager is available to respond to journalists as well as process important outputs from the International Secretariat.

About the role

This is a unique opportunity and a great time to join Amnesty UK's busy media and PR team.

Amnesty UK has ambitious campaigning and growth targets up to 2026 and you will play a vital role in helping to deliver those targets.

This will be achieved by developing media strategies, organising media interviews and producing the relevant materials such as press releases, fast reactive quotes, opinion pieces and letter to editors.

You will be working across a variety of areas, but there will be a specific focus on UK human rights issues which includes racial justice, economic, social and cultural rights, business and human rights, corporate partnerships and community led programs across the country.

The media work on these campaign areas will be designed to deliver real human rights change and help increase the number of Amnesty supporters in the UK.

You will also monitor breaking news stories to ensure Amnesty UK reacts quickly and powerfully. And be part of an out of hours on call rota.

More details can be found by downloading the job description from our careers portal.

The role may be for you if:

• You possess expertise in PR and media, are a brilliant strategic thinker, and have excellent project-management and communications skills.
• You have generated successful, multi-channel media campaigns on domestic issues with experience of Home Nations media.
• You have excellent news sense with extensive experience of producing effective and quick reactive news lines for breaking stories, and a track record of working closely with key journalists.
• You can develop excellent long-term media and PR strategies to deliver organisational objectives
• You are used to working with corporate partners to develop ground-breaking media plans.
• You have proven experience understanding key audiences and developing media strategies to engage them.
• You have a passion and drive to inspire others and build long-lasting relationships.

Our Commitment to you

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) are at the core of our values. We want to be an organisation that tackles structural inequality and prejudice as well as be an actively anti-racist organisation. This means taking a meaningful and equitable approach to supporting and developing you and others during your time with us.

New colleagues receive 27 days leave annually (29 after five years), as well as bank holidays (pro-rated for part time) and 3 wellbeing days. 2-5% employee pension contributions are matched at 6-9% and we offer 6 months full pay for family leave. We offer flexible working such as compressed work patterns and job shares.

Apply for this role

This vacancy advert may be taken down from job boards earlier than the stated deadline if a high standard of applications is received (if you have started an application in our portal, you will still have opportunity to complete it by the original deadline).

We welcome applications from everyone and particularly encourage applications from people from an ethnic minority background, and people with a disability to help us achieve a balanced representation in our workforce, especially at senior grades.

To reduce bias in our shortlisting process, Amnesty UK operates an anonymised application process. If for any reason you prefer to apply in a different format, or require adjustments in the process, please get in touch. To support all candidates to perform their best at interview, we send questions 24 hours in advance. We are a disability confident organisation.

Visit amnesty.org.uk/jobs for application guidance and information on benefits, recruitment inclusion and hybrid working.