News And Media Officer

Full or part-time, from 4 days a week

The purpose of this role is to support the News and Media Manager in promoting, strengthening and protecting the reputation of the Academy by delivering clear and consistent messages about our work to key audiences through print, broadcast and digital media.

You will achieve this by creating high quality materials for journalists, responding to media enquiries and generating compelling written content for our owned channels. You will work collaboratively with colleagues and partners, including influential UK and international medical researchers as well as patients, carers and the public, to help shape our work.

You will strive for excellence to develop an exceptional news sense, a flair for pitching stories and an ability to communicate complex information in accessible ways. You will be agile in how you support colleagues working on multiple long- and short-term projects and will work well under pressure to meet short deadlines.

You will behave with integrity to build effective relationships quickly and inspire trust as you collaborate widely with science and health journalists, influential UK and international medical researchers, and press officers in partner charities, universities and government bodies across all four nations. You will act on evidence to deliver factually sound and impactful communications that resonate with the journalists, public, patients, researchers and policymakers.

We’re looking for someone with the energy and passion to actively seek diversity and inclusion across our communications activities. Someone who lives our values of kindness and resilience by modelling healthy working practices and supporting wellbeing and work life balance for colleagues, collaborators and most importantly themselves.

Benefits

• Salary progression framework
• Hybrid and agile working
• 29 days annual leave including Christmas closure dates, plus bank holidays.
• Pension (the Academy contributes 7.5% of gross salary to a pension scheme, with an employee contribution of 3%).
• Life assurance
• Season ticket travel loan (interest free)
• Family friendly benefits - enhanced maternity and paternity leave (subject to qualifying period) coaching for parents returning to work)
• Subscription to Headspace and Class pass
• Staff training to support your development including EDI training

For more information and to apply online, please visit our careers page.

Closing date: 5pm on Wednesday, 1 May 2024.

Interview date: w/c 13 May 2024.