Senior Media & Communications Executive

Leicester, UK (Hybrid)

£26K/yr – £26K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and execute PR programs by securing media coverage, coordinating content and social campaigns, and translating news trends into timely communications opportunities across client workstreams.

  • Media relations and press outreach: pitch, place coverage, and manage relationships with key outlets.
  • Social and content execution: support social campaigns and content production using scheduling tools to meet client objectives.
  • Insight and activation: monitor the news agenda and translate insights into activations and cross-functional tasks for the team.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Writing content such as blogs and press reeases
  • Pushing press releases and comments to th media
  • Building relationships with key media ontacts
  • Travelling to manage in-person PR acivations
  • Helping to manage social media activity and campaigns for us and our clients, using scheduing tools
  • Coming up with creative ideas and helping to put them into practice to achieve communicationsobjectives
  • Reporting coverage and shared progres documents
  • Keeping up with the news agenda – and bringing that insightto our work.
  • Supporting the Media and Communications Director and Senior Manager across a range of tasks

Requirements

  • Experience in PR, journalism, and social media and/or a degree or equivalent qualification in a PR/Marketing/Medi related subject
  • Digital Marketing understanding with great atention to detail
  • An excellent copywriter who loves to write in a ariety of formats!
  • Demonstrate initiative and enthusiasm and the aility to multi-task
  • Good understanding of social media platforms and eye for fuure, emerging trends
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Analytical and excellet organisation skills

Preferred

  • Agency experience is esired but not essential
  • Paid social experiencedesired but not essential
  • Influencer managemen desired ut not essential

Benefits

  • Salary £25,500 – £26,000 (DOE)
  • Holiday: 25 days anual leave plus bank holidas.
  • Day off on your birhday.
  • Company pension scheme.
  • Comprehensive Private Medical Insurance
  • Life insurance: x 3 of salary.
  • Hybrid working – 3 x days offce based, 2 x optional day at home.
  • Personal annual training budget an personal development pportunities.
  • Free osite parking.
  • Regular team socials.
  • Immediate membership to a wide range of Employee Assistance Progrmmes for yo and your immediate family.
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CWA Creative Agency

CWA... the client-first marketing agency in Leicester.We’re innovators, experts and creatives. Passionate about what we do and the clients we do it for. A collaborative partner, making great things happen.Our approach is driven by the three pillars that shape our culture; client-first, creative with substance, collaboration not ego.We’re a proactive marketing agency in Leicester, working with clients worldwide. And we’re in this together. We work in partnership to deliver results that add value for our clients, underpinned by the expertise and insights that cement our best-in-class performance.Want to get started? All you need to do is just say "hello@cwa.co.uk"

Founded in 1965
Leicester, England, GBR
41 employees (10 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
54%
Direct
32%
Referral
8.6%
Social
4.2%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~41

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
6 (15% of company)