Media Lead

3 weeks ago

Scotland, United Kingdom Save the Children Full time

**The job of a Save the Children UK's Media Lead - Scotland is crucial and fulfilling.**
- Do you have experience as a news journalist or a background in media handling in Scotland?
- Do you have excellent verbal and written communication skills, that you can adapt for different audiences?
- Are you experienced and confident with developing media and communication strategies?
- Do you have experience of line management or leading projects?
- Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive but thrives and can go on to change the world - and of inspiring and leading others to do the same?

**If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you**

**Note**:
**About Us**

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In Scotland we work every day to challenge poverty and its impact to give every child the best start in life. Around the world, we work to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

**Job Purpose**

Save the Children is looking for an ambitious and driven media professional with exceptional project management skills to develop and lead on Save the Children's media activity in Scotland..

The role will involve developing and driving the media and communications strategy in Scotland to support policy, public affairs, fundraising and brand objectives. You will also help create materials and social media content for Scotland's communications channels. The role will focus on Save the Children's work in Scotland, while also supporting UK-wide and international work.

You will be highly organised and persuasive, with a good knowledge and understanding of child poverty issues and key political debates in Scotland. You will have experience as a news journalist or in media handling, and a strong track record of building media relationships and obtaining coverage in Scotland. We are looking for someone with excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a proven ability to manage competing priorities under pressure. You will have demonstrated the ability to manage or support others to achieve results.

The role will line manage two senior media managers - one in Wales and one in Northern Ireland. You will lead and support the senior media managers to deliver effective media and communications plans, while ensuring strategic co-ordination across the devolved nations and with the Save the Children UK office in England.

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. You will support our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

**Main Accountabilities**

The key duties will be to:

- Develop and implement a media and communications plan for Scotland that will deliver proactive and reactive coverage in support of Save the Children's influencing and fundraising objectives.
- Cultivate and harness the skills and expertise of colleagues - especially programmes and policy teams in Scotland - in our media and communications work, including by launching products like reports and coaching media spokespeople.
- Lead and manage the Senior Media Managers in Wales and Northern Ireland to develop and implement their own media plans. Provide them with technical and strategic guidance.
- Map, build and maintain relationships with key journalists, editors, commentators, opinion formers, bloggers and documentary makers in your media market.
- Write compelling and hard-hitting media briefings and press releases focussing on Save the Children's work in Scotland, to influence policy makers and key stakeholders.
- Respond quickly to relevant breaking news to achieve cut through for policy calls.
- Identify and support children and families to tell their stories in media and communications, ensuring that safeguarding, ethical standards and best practice are maintained at all times. This includes children and families supported by Save the Children in Scotland and those fundraising or campaigning for our work.
- Protect Save the Children's reputation, developing and implementing crisis management media strategies and rebuttal as required.

**Person Profile**
- Experience as a news journalist or in media handling, and a strong track record of success in obtaining media coverage in a variety of outlets. Experience should include strong examples of developing strategies and obtaining significant coverage on own initiative.
- Demonstrated the ability to manage or support others to create plans and achieve results.
- Excellent working

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