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We are currently looking to recruit a Communications Officer, based in London. This role will be working in Press Office and Programmes Desk.

The successful candidate will work as part of a small, high impact team of Communications Officers working with newspapers, magazines and broadcasters as well as digital and social. You will be managing reputational issues, corporate announcements and finding news stories to secure proactive publicity.

This will be a rota based role with the requirement for some evening and weekend work, from home. Work carried out during normal office hours is mainly carried out in our office in London, W1.

As Communications Officer, you will:

• Act as the first point of call for journalists and handle routine press enquiries working across both corporate and programme areas according to business needs
• Generate ideas for proactive stories, develop them, prepare press materials and brief to journalists, securing coverage in support of BBC objectives
• Where appropriate to co-ordinate press conferences, briefings, previews and press management at BBC events, handling requests for interviews and giving authority for viewings to be arranged
• Prepare briefing materials on all aspects of BBC policy for senior executives and help maintain a core rolling brief of issues, including programme-related matters
• Establish a good knowledge of key media contacts in the national and regional newspapers and websites, TV and radio outlets
• Develop and create material for digital comms and incorporate this into publicity and communication campaigns
• Comply with the press office responsibilities under the BBCs Editorial Standards, including checking responses and releases issued to the media have the appropriate level of sign-off
• Provide any additional administrative support where necessary including media monitoring, managing the press office inbox and inputting programme information
• Provide required information and copy to high standards of accuracy and on time
• Where appropriate to work on opinion former events and stakeholder engagement to ensure that BBC messages reach the desired target audiences
• Play an active role in helping to achieve the strategic aims of the whole division by contributing ideas and working towards common goals

Ideally you will have experience of proactive and reactive media relations. Furthermore, you will have an understanding of social media and digital communications channels, how it operates and risk and benefits of engaging with it at the BBC.

You'll have effective interpersonal and communication skills, (verbal and written), including the ability to present clear and concise professional communications to a range of audiences. Experience of using a wide range of digital and social media.

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Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

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Band: B
Contract type: Continuing - Permanent
Location: London

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.