A rewarding role at Wales’ leading cancer charity working with the media to find and develop opportunities to communicate our work. You’ll be making sure our messages deliver impact and are seen and heard in a way that supports a positive public perception. As an experienced media relations and communications specialist, you’ll be used to reacting to the news and maximising opportunities, as well as briefing spokespeople for interviews and be able to deliver media training.
You’ll naturally work and communicate in a way that’s collaborative with your colleagues across the board, build excellent relationships, keep calm under pressure and creatively come up with innovative ways to keep our brand visible and our strategic vision central. You’ll be great at persuading and seeing the small details yet visionary, coming up with proactive solutions and motivated by the people around you.
It’s an exciting role to impact on the cancer landscape through the power of communication, inclusivity, stories and effective media campaigns so you’ll have a good track record in a role like this. With line management responsibilities you’ll be people focused, flexible in your response to work and sensitive to people’s needs, balancing being responsive to working to business objectives.
Working Hours: 35 hours per week with flexible working
This means outside of our core 11am-3pm hours you can suit work around your lifestyle and personal commitments. We operate our work flexibly between 7am – 9pm so you can do things like the school runs or fit in wellness activities and hobbies with your working life
Job Location: Home & Head Office based
As the role can be mostly home based, we have flexible working arrangements and encourage as much Head Office working as possible with an expectation to attend monthly team meetings in the office. We’d expect our Media Relations & Communications Manager to commute to our Cardiff city centre office as and when required for the role or travel across Wales as needed.
We’re looking for skills, knowledge or experience to show us you’ve:
•Done this type of specialist media relations and communications role already when it comes to working with the press, following brand guidelines and shaping and delivering key external messages (if this is within the cancer or health landscape - even better)
•Great people, communication and relationship building skills to help you do your best work possible in a way that is inclusive, sensitive and underpinned by an organisation’s values
•Line managed or supervised people when it comes to performance and development
The Full Job Description and Person Specification:
In return you’ll be part of a people orientated culture, make impact through a worthwhile cause. Check out our amazing staff benefits on our work with us page here;
About us
More people than ever are living with cancer in Wales, with around 20,000 people diagnosed every year.
We give help, hope, and a voice to everyone affected by cancer. We understand how cancer can impact every aspect of life and how it affects families and friends too. Our wide range of services offer information, advice, and specialist support to people living with cancer, and their loved ones.
Together with our inspiring community of staff, volunteers, and supporters, we’re determined to be here for everyone affected today, tomorrow, and beyond.
At Tenovus Cancer Care we’re committed to making our workplace diverse and inclusive where everyone feels they belong and can be their authentic selves at work. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer who does not discriminate based on the Equality Act 2010’s Protected Characteristics. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment and we can to support people who wish to join us.
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