Community Outreach Lead

We're revolutionising local news. Firefly runs more than 130 local magazines on our own platform, growing fast, and the people of each town write the news themselves: residents, schools, clubs, businesses, councils. We're hiring the person who leads that on the ground across the North East, Cumbria, the North West and the West Midlands.

You'll run a small, sharp team, open doors in every town, and make the results visible every week. You'll work directly with the founder and CEO and alongside our partnerships and editorial leads: a senior role with real room to grow.

• Lead two community outreach officers and work with our editors day to day
• Sit at the top table with the founder and CEO, our partnerships managers and editorial leads, and help shape where we go next
• Open doors: schools, clubs, councils, charities and businesses, and get them publishing
• Plan and run the sessions and events that turn a town into contributors
• Front the team's updates, team calls and social posts: the face of local news in our regions
• Keep the team organised and the numbers moving

• Have led people, projects or programmes and can show what happened
• Are organised and confident with anyone, from a head teacher to a council leader
• Want to be part of reinventing local media, not maintaining it
• Ideally hold a driving licence and have access to a vehicle; tell us if you would travel another way

• £28,000 to £34,000 a year, depending on your experience and what you bring. That's about £2,330 to £2,830 a month for the length of the contract, plus 28 days' holiday a year pro rata (including bank holidays) and a workplace pension
• Fixed-term employed, 1 November 2026 to 19 March 2027 (start date by agreement)
• About 20 days a month, home-based, travelling across four regions. Travel and expenses paid, mileage at 45p a mile
• A DBS check at the level the role qualifies for, arranged and paid by us