The Wildlife Trust | Senior Media Officer

Senior Media Officer
Salary: Up to £35,280
Location: Newark (Nottinghamshire) - Hybrid, with occasional travel to the rest of the UK
Full time: 35 hours per week
Permanent
Closing date for applications: 12 January 2025
First interview: 24 January 2025
Second interview: 29 January 2024
About Us
The Wildlife Trusts are a federated movement of 46 charities, supported by a central charity, the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts. Together we have 900,000 members, 32,500 volunteers, and 3,400 staff across the UK. We are at an exciting moment in our 110-year history, with the development of an ambitious new strategy, setting out a vision of nature in recovery, with abundant, diverse wildlife and natural processes creating wilder landscapes where people and nature thrive.
About You
Are you a brilliant communicator who thrives in a busy media environment where no two days are the same? If you have experience in media relations and would like to work for one of the UK’s best-loved nature charities, then we have an exciting opportunity for you!
Working within our small but brilliant national communications and media team, the Senior Media Officer will promote The Wildlife Trusts and our work, activities, and messages to UK audiences through the national media, with a view to influencing key stakeholders, public opinion, and action for nature's recovery. You will develop and manage strategic relationships with the media and work to actively protect and enhance The Wildlife Trusts brand and reputation.
We are looking for an innovative and creative individual who has proven research, writing, editing, sub-editing, and proof-reading skills. You will have previous experience of generating compelling news stories and features and ideally publicising campaigns, combined with the ability to sell in stories to journalists and editors. You will enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, be organised and resourceful, and have great attention to detail.
We value passion, respect, trust, integrity, pragmatic activism, and strength in diversity. We particularly encourage applications from people who are under-represented within our sector, including people from minority ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities. We are committed to creating a movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.
At The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, we take our Safeguarding responsibilities extremely seriously. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk. For applicable roles, applicants must be willing to undergo checks with past employers and Disclosure and Barring Service checks at the eligible level.
As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to offering an interview to anyone with a disability that meets all the essential criteria for the post. Please let us know if you require any adjustments to make our recruitment process more accessible.
RSWT is committed to increasing the diversity of its staff through its Levelling the Field recruitment pledge and will put any ethnic minority applicants that meet all the essential criteria for the post through to the next stage of recruitment.

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