Media Manager (6 month contract)

Your new company

This organisation provides oversight and direction within a complex, highly regulated landscape. It plays a key role in setting expectations, supporting stability, and encouraging long-term improvement across the system it serves. Independent in its thinking and accountable in its actions, its work is guided by the wider public interest and the need to respond to change.

Your new role

This roles objective is to play a proactive role in maintaining and building the organisations reputation through effective strategic media handling. This is an initial 6 month contract opportunity.

Applicant requirements:

• Several years in a challenging external communications role with demonstrable track record in media relations, writing and implementing media strategies
• Expertise in crisis communications and high profile issues management

Key Skills/Capabilities required

• Excellent writing skills (press releases, briefings, articles, blogs)
• Absorbing complex information quickly and communicating it in an accessible way
• Ability to anticipate and map challenging reputational issues likely to cause media interest and apply a strategic focus on supporting the policy outcome
• Ability to understand how the media will perceive the organisations decisions and craft effective messages in response
• Proactive attitude to building and nurturing excellent external contacts
• Dealing with competing priorities and media deadlines calmly under pressure
• Diligence on reporting/logging conversations and evaluating success

What you will get in return

• £350 per day inside IR35 paid via umbrella company
• 6 month contract
• Project work
• Hybrid working, 1 day in the Glasgow office per week, 4 days working from home

Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer. Job suitability is assessed on merit in accordance with the individual's skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.