Average Media Specialist salary in London

Job Title: Media, PR & Digital Manager Location: London Salary: £40,000 per annum Job type: Full time, Permanent Closing Date: 27th April 2025 Are you a Media, PR & Digital Manager looking for a new opportunity? Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is the leading maritime charity for youth development and lifelong learning. We are a vibrant and growing charity inspiring young people to achieve their potential through challenge and nautical adventure and also enabling seafarers and maritime professionals to realise their potential through learning and career development. Working with our employees, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a strong vision and five-year Future Ready strategy to meet the growing demand for what we provide, both for young people, seafarers and maritime professionals - and the thousands who aspire to be the sea cadets and marine professionals of the future. It is also about equipping them to achieve their potential and thrive in a rapidly changing world, while growing our charity to benefit even more people - including those from under-represented or marginalised groups. We are currently looking for a Media, PR & Digital Manager to join our team. About the role: The Media, PR & Digital Manager leads and supports the delivery of flexible, cost-effective and class-leading media, marketing, and digital communications. This role ensures MSSC achieves its objectives across campaigns, fundraising and policy through targeted and effective profile building in the media and across multiple online platforms. The post holder will manage media communications activities, delivered in-house or outsourced as appropriate, to meet the needs of MSSC while maintaining the charity's image, values and stakeholder engagement. Responsibilities: Media & Public Relations: Proactively explore national and regional opportunities for media coverage, establishing effective media links to raise the profile of the organisation.Lead and coordinate integrated media campaigns alongside digital marketing efforts for maximum impact and coverage.Support communication with MSSC's internal and external stakeholders on sensitive media matters. Marketing & Digital Communications: Manage and coordinate the use of digital channels, including intranets, websites and social media.Lead the development and support of the DAMS (Marketing Hub) to facilitate effective brand and campaign management.Contribute to the production of high-quality, on-brand marketing materials, ensuring they meet deadlines and engage target audiences.Assist with website development and paid digital marketing campaigns.Develop and maintain MSSC's social media channels and other digital communication platforms. Requirements: Degree graduate or equivalent and experience in a communications environment.Experience in a similar role.Experience in developing and maintaining good working relations with journalists and media specialists.Excellent written and verbal skills with good attention to detail.Understanding of principles of media, PR, social media and communications. Benefits: 25 days annual leave per annum, increasing with length of serviceHybrid working for many rolesVolunteering LeaveLife assurance (4x salary)Private medical insuranceGenerous pension (employer contribution up to 10%)Cycle to work schemeWellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counsellingEmployee development: We are investing in our employees' development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential. Additional Information: MSSC positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. Equity, diversity, and inclusion really matters to us, so we can best serve our beneficiaries from every community. We work to ensure a fair and consistent recruitment process and aim to be a charity where diversity of experience, identity and skills are valued and welcomed. MSSC is an equal opportunities employer. We recognise our responsibilities to safeguard and protect the young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work. We do all we can to promote their health, safety and wellbeing, and we expect our staff to share this commitment and work in line with safeguarding policy, the MSSC's values and ethos of inclusivity. We adhere to safer recruitment practices and therefore employment is subject to detailed pre-employment checks for successful candidates, including references and criminal disclosure checks and the completion of a disclosure questionnaire. All successful applicants are required to attend safeguarding training and undergo pre-employment checks including a criminal record check. Please click APPLY to be redirected to our website to complete your application. Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Media Manager, Head of Media, Communications Manager, Communications Specialist, Public Relations Specialist, and Public Information Officer, may also be considered for this role.

An internationally renowned University in London is looking for an interim Media Manager to join the team for 3 months starting in May. The Media Manager will support on a large scale external communications campaign. Client Details Our client is a well recognised brand in the Higher Education sector. The team are in the office 2-3 times per week in central London. Description Develop and deliver proactive, engaging and impactful external communications campaigns that increase awareness of the university.Provide reactive communications support including crisis management.Develop and implement proactive external communications campaigns and activities.Manage media enquiries from local, national and international media.Collaborate with colleagues across the University as well as the communications team.Lead on corporate projects and activities including: speech writing, media briefings, website content, online and print publication content creation and production. Profile Experience of developing, planning and delivering successful, proactive, external communications campaigns.Track record of successfully working proactively with news or specialist media to secure positive coverage.Background in external communications and campaign management.Evidence of crisis/issue management media handling.Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to build relationships quickly.Ability to produce written content suitable for a wide variety of channels. Job Offer 3 month contract.Start in May 2025.Day rate contract PAYE or Umbrella.Salary bracket £40,000 - £48,000.Hybrid working.Fast moving interview process.

A leading Media organisation are looking for a progressive Reward Specialist to join their People team, supporting across all aspects of employee reward, benefits, and well-being. Working closely with the Head of Reward, you will play a key role as Reward Analyst on a wide variety of interesting projects as well as managing the execution of the total reward offering, in order to optimise attraction, engagement, performance and retention. You will provide day-to-day guidance and insights within the People Team and to the business, whilst also leading on wider reward initiatives and projects to serve their business goals. The ideal candidate will be a data whizz when it comes to reward! You'll need a high degree of data curiosity, accuracy and integrity to develop impactful people insights and solutions in this role! Alongside the team, you will be responsible for maintaining data integrity and producing all aspects of People MI on behalf of the People Team for the business. You'll need to have strong analytics/data skills with the ability to provide data, trends, insights and will have previous experience within a Reward role. They operate a hybrid model, with 3 days in the office alongside a competitive salary! If this sounds like the role for you, apply now! Handle actively welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds - we pride ourselves on attracting the best talent for every opportunity through a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.