Media Officer

5 months ago

Brighton, United Kingdom The Pensions Regulator Full time

Job ref: 191870

TPR grade: Grade 10 - Associate

**About us**:
More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings. With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.

Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe. We’re committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.

It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Disability Network, Family Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), Minority Ethnic (ME) Network and Women’s Network, which offer spaces to connect.

Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry. We are at the start of that journey. Join us to find out what part you can play.

We operate a hybrid working model, with regular attendance in our Brighton office to connect with colleagues across the business.

**Role**:
We are currently seeking a media officer to join The Pension Regulator’s busy media relations team.

The pensions landscape continues to see significant change with a host of new regulations designed to protect savers, tackle wrong-doing and help improve retirement outcomes. As a result, we have an ever-growing profile in the press.

In the context of these changes, as media officer you will be play an influential role in telling a strong story about TPR’s work to protect savers, highlighting our compliance and enforcement actions, and promoting the regulator’s messages on improving standards and enabling good outcomes for people saving into workplace pensions.

Through your work, you will help manage TPR’s reputation, educate the pensions market on our work and build support for TPR’s approach to regulation. You will maximise the creative use of all communication channels, and robustly defend the organisation in the press.

**Responsibilities**:
You will:

- be confident in dealing with journalists, stakeholders, and other government bodies, and proactively manage media enquiries and reputational issues as required using agreed lines to take
- produce and sell in high-quality press releases, articles, blogs and podcasts to core pensions trade press, national print and broadcast media and business sector publications
- build and maintain strong relationships with key press contacts
- be creative and proactive in generating media and public relations opportunities to raise awareness of the regulator’s work to promote high standards across the pensions industry
- advise colleagues, including the regulator’s Board and senior management team, on media-handling strategies, statements, and lines to take
- participate in our out-of-hours rota as required - approximately one week per month
- work dynamically to provide support to other communication functions as appropriate

**Essential and desirable criteria**:
**Essential**:

- Proven experience in media relations or PR with a strong news sense and judgement.
- Excellent spoken and written communication and organisational skills.
- A self-starter - able to generate creative ideas and opportunities to highlight TPR’s messages.
- Ability to quickly absorb and understand information on complex policy or legal issues and the ability to translate this material into succinct, relevant, and engaging content.
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines, often having to prioritise to meet unexpected or changing workload.
- Ability to advise, influence and persuade others, often at senior levels.

**Desirable**:

- Experience of working in the financial services or pension sectors.
- Experience of working as an in-house media officer.

**Person specification**:

- Ability to prioritise and use initiative.
- Calm under pressure.
- Communication skills at all levels.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Personable and a team player.

**Salary and benefits**:
As well as a salary from £31,684, we offer:

- Civil Service Pension arrangements, which are recognised as some of the best in the pensions world
- discretionary bonus arrangements
- access to performance related pay progression
- 25 days annual leave provision
- flexible working arrangements
- development opportunities
- enhanced parental leave arrangements
- a free employee assistance programme
- an excellent office location in Brighton

**How to apply**:

- a covering letter with details of how your skills and experience meet the role requirements
- a copy of your CV
- details of your notice period

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