Media Engagement Placement

**Media Engagement Placement - Ireland (4 months)**
**Salary**: £21,164 / €30,628 per annum (pro rata)
**Contract type**: Temporary: Fixed Term Contract or Secondment
**Hours**: Full Time
**Location description**: Home based in Irish region
**Interview date**:w/c 27 March
**Closing Date**: 19-03-2023
RNLI lifeboats and lifeguards help thousands of people each year around Ireland and the UK. It’s quite a story and you can help us tell it.
We’re looking for future PR stars to join the RNLI’s Media Engagement Team in Ireland for 4 months. Ideally, we’re looking for people with some basic experience in PR, Communications or Media, or who are studying for or have graduated from a relevant degree.
You’ll be a keen learner looking to build on a good understanding of communications and PR principles. You’ll be a skilled communicator and confident to hit the ground running - whether that’s writing press releases or picking up the phone to our lifeboat crew,lifeguards or the media.
You’ll gain a broad range of experience, from publicising lifeboat and lifeguard rescues and helping handle communications around major incidents, to dealing with the media and protecting the reputation of a well-loved charity. You’ll find out how to use amulti-media, multi-channel approach to promoting a large organisation and discover what it’s like to be part of a busy regional press team.
The RNLI is a 24/7 search and rescue organisation and you should be ready to work outside normal office hours on occasion.
Your reward will be seeing the RNLI’s reputation go from strength to strength as you help raise awareness of this lifesaving charity and inspire people to support us.
This post requires a valid driving licence.
**Safeguarding**
The RNLI is committed to safeguarding; ensuring the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk. We expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment and have a zero tolerance approach to proven incidents of bullying, abuse, harassment orexploitation. The suitability of all prospective employees and volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This will include relevant criminal record checks being carried out dependent on the eligibility of therole. (England & Wales; DBS check, Scotland; Disclosure Scotland PVG, Northern Ireland; Access NI, Republic of Ireland; Garda Vetting; International, International Child Protection Certificate process).
**Diversity at the RNLI**
Other organisations may call this role Graduate Media Placement, Graduate Media Scheme, Media Intern, or Graduate Internship.