Public Relations Manager

Responsibilities

• Responsible for creating awareness of BHF, you'll promote the breadth of our work, from research and campaigning to fundraising, helping to grow support and income.
• You’ll promote BHF’s work, influencing local partners and shaping the charity’s reputation through media, and other communication channels.
• Working with local teams to devise and deliver impactful communication strategies, you’ll meet challenging KPIs and demonstrate significant impact which should raise the public’s propensity to give.
• You’ll work across a varied range of media activity, partnering with our UK-wide media team to develop and deliver PR strategies that bring key brand and awareness campaigns to life.
• You'll also participate in our out of hours service on a rotational shift basis.
• Your local expertise will guide the way we influence and use both traditional media, digital channels, and engagement opportunities.
• During the 12-month contract, you’ll help deliver a defined programme of work across the following priority areas:
• - Delivering regional media activity for BHF’s Christmas and brand campaigns.
• - Planning and delivering regional media activity to support Heart Month 2027.
• - Supporting the promotion and delivery of the Heart Hero Awards 2027.

Requirements

• In-depth knowledge of the media landscape in the Midlands and North of England
• demonstrable experience of finding and developing stories for the media, delivering successful communications campaigns, and working collaboratively in a media team
• strong experience gained as a journalist or in a communications role (either in-house or agency)
• excellent written and verbal communication and presenting skills
• the ability to build trust and relationships
• strong creativity in developing campaigns
• You can take complicated information and translate it into consumer-friendly communications
• A confident self-starter who enjoys travelling across the UK
• you can work under your own initiative as part of a supportive and geographically dispersed team

Benefits

• on-call rota on a rotational basis for which you will receive an on-call allowance of £1,000 per annum (pro rata for part-time colleagues).