Media and Communications Officer London, England
Job description
Key information
Closing date: 10am, Thursday 21st September 2023
Salary: £29,000 to £31,000 per year
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Location: Based in London SW8 / home and flexible working
Interviews: Online, Thursday 28th September 2023
What you’ll be doing
We run a diverse and exciting range of campaigns and projects, including putting books into McDonald’s Happy Meals, running the Marcus Rashford Book Club and creating thousands of primary school libraries.
Working as part of our small media team, you will be responsible for creating and delivering the media and communications campaigns for projects like these, as well as our fundraising, conferences and events. You will build relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, ensure we reach our target communities with vital literacy messaging, and drive support for our work.
You will work closely with our Senior Media and Communications Manager, as well as with colleagues across our marketing and communications team who deliver regional and local campaigns, policy and public affairs, digital comms and creative design. You will also have the chance to work with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders at all levels, including our high profile partners and supporters.
Under our flexible and home working policy, you will be able to work regularly from home, although you will remain responsible for your travel to London when necessary.
What we’re looking for
You will be a driven and creative communications professional with a deep passion for education and social justice. You will need recent experience (approximately two years) working in a media and communications team, and working with journalists to secure positive national and regional media coverage.
Excellent communication skills will obviously be essential, including writing for social media. Experience of working in education or the charity sector would be an advantage, but is not essential.
Above all, you will need to be able to work proactively and independently, using your own initiative, but will also benefit from the support of a strong and collaborative organisational culture motivated by our shared mission and values.
Why our work is so vital
Poor literacy and resulting inequality is not inevitable. The National Literacy Trust improves the reading, writing, speaking and listening skills of those who need it most, giving them the best possible chance of success.
We make society fairer. Poor literacy creates social and economic inequality. The one in six adults in the UK with poor literacy earn less, are less likely to vote and more likely to experience health inequalities.
We enable social mobility. A child without literacy skills can’t succeed at school, and as an adult they will be locked out of the job market. The pattern is intergenerational and starts at birth.
Our work is targeted at communities with the highest levels of disadvantage and the lowest levels of literacy. We support thousands of schools and early years settings, bringing in wonderful partners like the Premier League and the nation’s best publishers who bring literacy alive. We campaign to make literacy a priority for our nation’s leaders. Our research and analysis make us the leading authority on literacy and drive our interventions.
What we offer you
As well as a competitive salary, we offer benefits including a generous leave allowance totalling 39 days (including bank holidays and office closure between Christmas and New Year), pension contributions of 8% of annual salary, a cycle to work scheme, employee assistance programme and other health and wellbeing benefits.
We support flexible working and promote a workplace where you can be yourself and contribute to our success, whoever you are.
Application details
Our people are our most important asset and we value and respect diversity in all its forms (seen and unseen). We particularly welcome applications from those from Black and Asian backgrounds, as well as candidates with disabilities and from the communities in which we work. We would like to increase representation of these groups among our staff as we know greater diversity will lead to an even greater impact for our work.
