Responsibilities

• Help translate More in Common’s research into concise, media-friendly insights, including drafting press releases and supporting colleagues to pitch stories to the press.
• Writing compelling content for our blog, newsletter, podcast and social media channels.
• Helping to promote our Opinion Brief newsletter and podcast, and achieve our target of quadrupling our subscriber list over the coming year.
• Expanding More in Common’s media network; helping to build new relationships with journalists while maintaining and updating our existing mailing list.
• Building our long-term media grid, looking ahead to key upcoming moments in the news cycle and feeding ideas into our weekly polls to ensure we can quickly respond.
• Helping to craft an interesting story from our quantitative and qualitative data, and spot key statistics and trends that will be interesting to the media.
• Helping the team to experiment with paid online advertising to increase More in Common's profile and generate new business.
• Updating content on our website and ensuring it remains up to date and showcases the breadth and depth of our research and insights
• Writing first drafts of quotes for media, op-eds, speeches, and external facing briefings
• Working with the wider team to develop More in Common's communications strategy, and identify a set of key performance indicators by which to evaluate our approach.

Requirements

• A strong interest for media and communications.
• Strong attention to detail, including when working at fast pace.
• Diligence in fact-checking and ensuring data accuracy.
• Excellent written communication; the ability to write clear, compelling content for different audiences.
• Familiarity with how to analyse data and turn that data into a compelling story.
• A can-do attitude, with the ability to work both responsively and proactively at pace
• A keen interest in and genuine enthusiasm for UK politics and public opinion
• The ability to manage and prioritise multiple competing demands from different people and projects.

Preferred

• Experience in PR, journalism, media, social media or marketing.
• Familiarity with social research methods (either in an academic or professional setting).
• A proven track record of growing a social media account, through both organic growth and paid campaigns.

Benefits

• The role offers a competitive salary plus 25 days holiday, private health insurance and pension.