Job Description

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Permanent
35 hours per week
26,100 per annum
Location: Flexible (within the UK), home working
You
With your passion for PR and media, you will want to work a fast, agile way to help deliver creative campaigns and communications. You'll work with colleagues across the charity to produce coverage that's challenging, arresting, and consistent. You'll help to make sure our work reaches the right audiences, is driven by insight, attracts people, and inspires action. You'll be part of a culture of learning and growth. In return, we'll offer a supportive, forward thinking work environment and interesting, inspiring work that will challenge you in all the right ways.
You'll bring:

• Some experience working on successful media campaigns and generating coverage, even better if you have experience in the charity sector

• Knowledge of how to produce and maintain communication plans and grids

• An ability to both spot and create newsworthy stories, with good knowledge of national and local media to share these stories

• A good understanding and willingness to learn more about working with people who have lived-experience (case studies) and an awareness of the associated trauma-informed, safeguarding, and GDPR requirements

• Excellent attention to detail, organisational and communication skills

• Experience of using relevant digital tools to work collaboratively and productively

To succeed you'll:

• Provide an effective and professional service to the media, responding to enquiries and providing information, as a core member of the media and PR team.

• Be the lead in maintaining and ensuring the communications grid is up to date and chasing contributions from the relevant leads.

• Develop good relationships with TCS colleagues across the organisation to devise media and communication strategies, and responses to major announcements and high-profile policy issues.

• Produce news releases and quotes, and brief/ advise our spokespeople. Ensure bold and powerful storytelling with compelling narrative across media content and campaigns.

• Elevate voices of lived-experience. Root messaging in our brand voice to deliver cut-through and raise brand profile. Make sure the people involved in our work feel safe and prepared, and capable of fulfilling the need.

Us
The children's society runs many local services that help tens of thousands of young people who desperately need our support. We campaign to change laws and policies to make children's lives safer and happier.
Every day we're changing the lives of children in this country for the better - and with your help, tomorrow we will change society for even more.
Safeguarding
The children's society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.
The closing date for applications is midnight on Friday 24th October 2025.
Interviews will be held on 5th, 6th and 7th November 2025. Please note that a task will be included for the interview process so we will need candidates to be available for 2 hours.

Skills Required