Assistant Publicist

4 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Global Radio Services Full time

Assistant Publicist

**Reporting of the Role**

This role reports to the Senior Publicity Manager

**Overview of job**

Global’s Communications team has an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Publicist, to play an important role in supporting the team.

**3 best things about the job**
- There’s a huge amount of variety - no two days are the same
- It’s a fantastic role to learn all about the role of communications and marketing in one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies
- You’ll be joining a collaborative, welcoming team with the opportunity to work on projects where we all come together, like our world class events

**Measures of success -**

**In the first few months, you would have**
- Understood the role of the Communications team at Global
- Built relationships at Global with key teams
- Got fully into the flow of media monitoring and keeping the business and teams up to date on press coverage
- Taken administrative tasks and be working through them swiftly and fluently
- Supported the team on publicising daily content from the radio brands

**Responsibilities of the role**
- You’ll support the Senior Publicity Manager and Senior Publicist on generating press for Capital, Heart and Radio X along with supporting the wider communications team.
- Writing for consumer communications (this could include articles, press releases, media alerts, packaging newslines, blogs and case studies)
- Writing programme information for the radio brands
- We get a lot of media enquiries, so you’ll be helping deal with day-to-day requests from the media as well as proactively pitching stories to the press, building relationships with journalists and maintaining media lists
- Supporting the team with PR campaigns, working to deliver a strategy and then taking responsibilities for your own campaigns
- Evaluate PR campaigns - monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of PR campaigns and measuring their impact
- Events - helping to plan, organise and co-coordinate events alongside Global’s brilliant events team, and supporting on red carpet media management at Global’s live events
- Photoshoots - helping to plan presenter photoshoots
- Budgets - taking charge of finance processes related to PR spend
- Social media support - working with Global’s Digital Communications Manager on Global and Global Player’s social media output in a strategic and effective way across all major social platforms, with a particular focus on content creation, community management, and planning
- Media monitoring - ensure that the business and radio brands are kept up to date with key coverage, creating daily cuttings alerts and a weekly press coverage highlights document

**What you will need**
- 1 or 2 years experience in publicity, public relations or marketing
- Great written skills, bundles of enthusiasm, full of initiative and able to demonstrate an understanding of the role of publicity
- Good understanding of the media environment (including social media) and the news gathering process
- Ability to manage own workload effectively and assess priorities to meet conflicting deadlines, often at short notice and under pressure.
- A good news sense with ability to write crisp, clear and lively press releases and copy
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- A good working knowledge and use of social media for promoting content
- Able to quickly and effectively management administrative tasks
- Excellent IT skills, with the ability to adapt to new IT systems
- A creative streak would be very welcome

**Everyone is welcome at Global**:
Just like our media and entertainment platforms are for everyone, so are our workplaces. We know that we can’t possibly serve our diverse audiences without first nurturing and celebrating it in our people and that’s why we work hard to create an inclusive culture for everyone. We believe that diversity will set us apart, so no matter what you look like, where you come from or what your favourite radio station is, we want to hear from you.


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