Press Assistant London, England
Job description
About us
EHPR is a small business in London, Greater London. We are professional, agile, innovative, and our goal is to Create brilliant publicity campaigns for all our exciting clients!.
Our work environment includes:
- Modern office setting
- Food provided
- Work-from-home days
- Growth opportunities
The Press/Publicity Assistant role is for an organised individual, with a passion for theatre, arts and culture supporting a small and busy press team. We offer the flexibility to work from home apart from when you will need to attend in-person meetings, photocalls, press junkets, press events and press nights.
Responsibilities
- Assisting, and at times leading, on PR campaigns and development - helping to brainstorm and devise PR campaigns for each production, then taking responsibility for specific pitches within the campaign
- Managing administration connected with running accounts including maintenance of campaign documents, updates and reports
- Proof reading and fact checking coverage for accuracy before sending to clients
- Specific management for tour production PR and liaising with press officers at regional venues
- Creating and managing press lists
- Conduct research to support PR planning for each individual campaigns
- Sending press releases where appropriate and resizing and distributing press images
- Helping to book in and organise press tickets for press nights and other performances
- Providing briefing notes to talent, clients and media as required
- Distribution of press cuttings to clients, and tune ins ahead of radio/TV interviews
- Pitching to journalists and following up with press materials as required
- Dealing with day-to-day requests for press information
- Seasonal highlight pitching
- Maintaining EHPR’s Website and multiple social media platforms
Knowledge, Skills, Experience
Essential
- Passionate about theatre, arts and culture and interested in media and Public Relations with ideally at least 1-2 years of experience in the field.
- Have sound administrative skills, excellent organisation and time management
- Have a positive attitude in their approach to all tasks and a willingness to learn.
- Showing initiative at all times, and can adapt quickly and easily when required
- An excellent communicator, verbally and in writing with impeccable attention to detail
- An ability to multi-task and is confident working across multiple projects with urgent deadlines
- Flexible approach to work with ability to attend evening and occasional weekend events as required
- Experience in social media use, mainly Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
- Preferable but not essential, experience using Microsoft Office, Mailchimp, and confident with MAC computers.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £19,469.00-£23,592.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
- Performance bonus
Experience:
- Arts PR or other PR: 1 year (required)
Work Location: One location
Application deadline: 31/03/2023
