Senior Media Officer
Hybrid Working – London or Birmingham (minimum 1 day office per week / remaining days home working)
Salary
Birmingham £36,935 per annum plus pension
London £38,284 per annum plus pension
Permanent, Full Time
Closing date: 27th January 2025
Do you have experience as a press officer or journalist or an impressive track record of increasing the profile of a consumer-facing charity brand across a range of media? Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference? Then we want to hear from you!
At the Money Advice Trust, we help people recover from financial difficulty, and aim to stop it happening in the first place. We’re looking for a Senior Media Officer to help us raise awareness of our vital debt advice services by securing high-volume, high-impact consumer facing media coverage, including TV and radio coverage.
As Senior Media Officer you will need to be confident in developing and implementing effective media strategies, to help us grow the reach and impact of our services and to campaign for change.
We’re looking for someone with excellent news and media judgement, who can proactively identify and create media opportunities. You’ll also need excellent writing and editing skills and be able to build and maintain strong relationships with journalists.
In return, you’ll make a real difference by ensuring more people get the support they need, and by helping to prevent financial difficulty. It is an extremely rewarding role in a friendly and supportive environment with excellent salary and benefits.
- 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- A contributory pension scheme
- Hybrid working arrangement
- Generous Life Insurance
- Wellbeing days
- Healthcare cash back scheme
- Free on-site gym
- Enhanced maternity pay
- Long service awards
- Subsidised parking
- Social events
- Birthday voucher
- Employee Assistance Programme
We reserve the right to close the role early should we receive high numbers of applications. To avoid disappointment, please apply as soon as possible.
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We take diversity seriously and are committed to making diversity and inclusion a part of everything we do. We strive to create a workplace that reflects the communities we serve. Our vision, underpinned by our values, to put people first, support each other and solve problems, is to be a place where everyone feels welcome and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work and to make the Money Advice Trust an employer of choice.
We are committed to working in an equitable, diverse and inclusive environment and welcome applications from all backgrounds. We use a blind recruitment system which hides your personal details such as name, address, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, educational institution to ensure all candidates are on a level playing field. Personal details will only be revealed once the application has been shortlisted.
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Application notes for Networx:
Pre-screen (auto decline) questions same as last time
Applications questions x 4 same as last time
Mandatory CV
Essential criteria from JD to be scored same as last time
Internal version on intranet to replicate external apart from EDI questions.