Public Relations Specialist

Pension Insurance Corporation plc; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000

Job description

Pension Insurance Corporation ("PIC") provides secure retirement incomes through comprehensive risk management and excellence in asset and liability management, as well as exceptional customer service. Our purpose is to pay the pensions of our current and future policyholders. We achieve our purpose by setting Companywide strategic objectives and driving a healthy culture based on our PIC Values of Resilient, Adaptable, and Loyal.

• The Public Relations Manager is expected to either lead or support a range of communications initiatives, including new deal announcements and our social media presence.
• PIC's purpose is to pay the pensions of its current and future policyholders, backed by an asset portfolio invested in areas like social housing, renewable energy, and the university sector.
• The Public Relations Manager plays a key role in developing our communications in all these areas by proactively looking for and developing opportunities to promote key themes and support wider business objectives with the media.
• The role works across our business, especially with our investment team and our new business team.
• The role sits within the Corporate Affairs function, which covers PR, social media, public affairs, thought leadership, internal communications, and investor relations.
  
  

Our Company values are expected to be reflected in the delivery and performance of every role.

Specific accountabilities assigned to the role of Business Process Analyst within the Corporate Affairs team:

• Helping devise, develop, and deliver PIC's media strategy for targeted, integrated campaigns, working closely with internal stakeholders.
• Point of contact for media enquiries, regularly working with national and trade media on a proactive and reactive basis.
• Helping manage the external public relations consultancy to ensure agreed KPIs are met.
• Proactively identifying media opportunities and delivering coverage across broadcast, print, and digital, including PR campaigns for thought leadership papers, key events, corporate announcements, and other business activities.
• Identifying key spokespeople and ensuring they are correctly briefed and media trained.
• Writing and placing editorial content, including op-eds as well as LinkedIn blogs for company spokespeople.
• Helping develop ideas for future thought leadership publications.
• Providing communications counsel and crisis communications support as required.
  
  
  

Requirements

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of social media.
• Strong understanding of the media and the craft of public relations.
  
  
  

Skills:

• Strong organisational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to persuade and influence both directly and indirectly.
• Ability to organize work to meet deadlines.
• Ability to work within defined procedures as recommended by functional teams.
• Commercial judgement.
• Working knowledge of MS PowerPoint, MS Word.
  
  
  

Experience:

• Experience of writing, editing, and proofreading press releases and other corporate documents.
• Working within the field of public relations.
• Experience of delivering complex ideas in a clear and concise manner.
  
  
  

Benefits

In addition to a competitive base salary and the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan, upon joining us here at Pension Insurance Corporation, you will get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 28 days' annual leave (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, and much more.