Media Manager

About

The Role
Do you have demonstrable experience of working in a high-performing, busy press office, operating at pace to respond to news and media enquiries while managing competing deadlines? Are you an advanced communicator with the skills to manage a team and build stakeholder relationships effectively?
We are recruiting for a Media Manager to join on a full-time basis, working 35 hours per week, on a permanent contract. This is a home-based role, with occasional travel required for in-person team meetings and events.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced communications professional to join our award-winning and ambitious National Media Team, to build on our success so far in making dementia a priority.
As Media Manager you will help deliver some of the biggest moments in Alzheimers Societys calendar, working closely with large parts of the organisation, including our regional, celebrity, social media and research communications colleagues, to inform, inspire and engage our audiences.
You will line manage and support a Media Officer to deliver high quality and impactful national media coverage aligned to organisational priorities. You will take a leading role in devising, delivering and evaluating integrated national media plans that support Alzheimers Society priorities and campaigns, in addition to producing high standard media materials, including press releases, pitches, key messages, spokesperson briefings, and photography and video briefs.
Interviews for this role have been provisionally scheduled to take place via MS Teams during the week beginning Monday 10th August.
About you
Joining us, youll have demonstrable experience of working in a high-performing, busy press office, operating at pace to respond to news and media enquiries while managing competing deadlines. Youll have the ability to engage media effectively and build relationships with journalists, possessing established contacts within the media industry.
Youll also have a proven track record of securing impactful national media coverage, with a good understanding of news values and what drives coverage with advanced writing and verbal communication skills.
Crucially for this role, youll have the necessary interpersonal and relationship-building skills to both line manage effectively and influence a variety of stakeholders. Youll also have the ability to manage projects with good organisational skills and the attention to detail required for you to meet deadlines reliably in time-sensitive situations.
What youll focus on:

• Showing bravery and creativity, taking a leading role in devising, delivering and evaluating integrated national media plans that support Alzheimers Society priorities and campaigns.
• Providing day-to-day account management of key media campaigns and key areas e.g. services, fundraising, research and influencing, assigned by Senior Media Manager.
• Line managing a Media Officer to deliver high quality and impactful national media coverage aligned to organisational priorities.
• Producing high standard media materials, including press releases, pitches, key messages, spokesperson briefings, and photography and video briefs.
• Providing an effective, professional press office service, by taking part in a reactive press office rota and an out-of-hours rota.
• Work with internal subject-expert teams to analyse and translate complex data, information or issues, to inform media statements, press releases and briefings.