Media Lead

Location: London
Salary expectation: From £50,000
Contract: Full time, 18-month fixed-term contract
Final date to receive applications: Monday 7th September

The Nuffield Foundation is an independent charitable trust working to improve social wellbeing through research and innovation. We are looking for an ambitious media professional with an exceptional sense of what journalists are looking for – someone with strong media instincts, brilliant contacts and the ideas, energy and experience to get important issues and commentary onto the national agenda.

This is a highly proactive and autonomous role. You will lead our media work, finding and creating opportunities to bring the Foundation’s research, expertise and people to the attention of relevant journalists and media outlets. You will spot the hook in a piece of research, connect it to what is happening in the world and turn it into a pitch that makes a journalist want to respond.

You will bring and build trusted relationships with journalists and editors across national, specialist, broadcast and digital media, while constantly looking for new ways to get our work heard and our subject experts known. This role works closely with colleagues across communications, policy and public affairs, grant programmes, our research centres and the researchers we fund, to uncover the strongest stories and get them in front of the right people.

If you are as comfortable with a blank sheet of paper as you are responding to a breaking story, you will enjoy this role. You will write sharp, engaging pitches, press releases and comment pieces, develop lines at speed when the news demands it, and help develop and prepare our spokespeople for media opportunities. You will also be an excellent writer and editor, able to turn complex ideas into clear, compelling copy without losing the substance.

Naturally curious about current affairs and policy making, you will also be confident working with complex research and policy areas, and comfortable operating at pace when opportunities arise.

This role is a chance to have real ownership of our proactive media agenda, working on a wide range of issues that matter, including economic inequalities, SEND, children and young people’s education and employment outcomes, public right to justice, racial diversity, over-50s health and work, AI and education, climate change, demographic change and much more.

Deadline: Monday 7th September