Media and PR Manager

This is an exciting new role within our Integrated Marketing and Media department, managing a talented Media and PR team, creating impactful moments that inspire action and drive change for men.

You'll be responsible for developing our media and PR approach, ensuring prioritisation to deliver our Communications strategy and campaign objectives. You'll contribute to future planning, crisis planning, and measuring impact by tracking and evaluating our PR results.

You'll work with our paid media agency to maximise our media partnerships, ensuring all our work delivers for men. You'll work alongside our creative content team to help men affected by prostate cancer share their stories and build strong relationships with our spokespeople and key stakeholders.

What we want from you

A strategic thinker who can drive results and think long-term but who can balance getting involved with the team and the details. A collaborator who can build strong relationships with different teams across the organisation and with external partners. You'll have experience leading PR teams working with a variety of stories and media outlets.

You're a natural leader who knows how to inspire and manage a team, supporting creativity while meeting deadlines and objectives. An excellent communicator, confident communicating complex technical information to general audiences. You've got your finger on the pulse of the modern news environment, able to anticipate threats and navigate thorny issues. And you're credible building trusted relationships and influencing at senior levels with journalists and other external stakeholders.

Why work with us?

Every man needs to know about the most common cancer in men - prostate cancer. It's a real and present danger that takes over 12,000 of our dads, grandads, brothers and friends each year.

Prostate Cancer UK is the largest men's health charity in the UK. We have a simple ambition - to stop prostate cancer damaging lives. We invest millions in research to revolutionise testing, treatment and care. We're blazing a trail to a screening programme that could save thousands of lives with regular, accurate tests for all men at risk. And we work tirelessly to spread the word about risk and offer specialist support to people living with the disease.

Work with us and you'll see your efforts pay off as we give men and their families the power to navigate prostate cancer.

Please address the core/essential skills, experience and competencies required - using real examples where possible - and tell us in what ways you are a good match for the role.

We'll focus on these criteria in reviewing and shortlisting applications:

1. Proven experience of strategically planning campaigns to generate media coverage and deliver specific messages to achieve clear objectives.

2. Experience training and coaching spokespeople for media interviews

3. Deep understanding of how storytelling can be used to inspire action and drive change.

4. Experience building trust and connection with community groups, ideally including knowledge of engaging high-risk communities (such as black men).

5. Enthusiasm for measurement, prioritisation, and continuous improvement. We'd like to hear your thoughts or real-world examples.

6. Strong analytical skills with the ability to digest and respond to complex information, often under pressure of tight media deadlines.

7. Strong experience leading and developing a team, in particular leading teams through change.

Join our team and be part of an award-winning charity. We'll support you to develop your skills and expertise.

We offer a competitive benefits package, including:

+ Generous leave entitlements that increase with service

+ One 'development day' a month to use for training or personal development

+ Enhanced contributory pension scheme

+ Life insurance and group income protection

+ Health Cash Plan

+ Life and wellbeing advice and support via our Employee Assistance Programme

+ Discounted gym membership and high street shopping discounts

+ Loans for season tickets or cycles

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

At Prostate Cancer UK, we believe that equity, diversity and inclusion are essential to building a strong and innovative workplace, that represents and can advocate for the communities we support. We stand against discrimination and prejudice, and we champion tolerance, fairness and equality in everything we do. This makes us stronger and helps us reach more people. We're all here for the same reason: to give every man the power to navigate prostate cancer.

We're committed to righting health inequalities across the UK, starting with those faced by Black men who are at double risk. This includes ground-breaking research into Black men's risk and working with communities directly to overcome barriers to the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.

Therefore, we're particularly interested in applications from those from marginalised and vulnerable communities. This will help us create an environment of inclusion where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work, where personal qualities are as important as professional experience, and our people feel seen and heard.

Our people networks

We're continuously learning more about the needs of our colleagues, and have three amazing People Networks, sponsored by our Leadership team:

+ Pride - A safe space where LGBTQ+ colleagues - and our allies - can share their diverse lived experiences, celebrate LGBTQ+ culture and history, and create new ideas about how our organisation can be more inclusive and representative of LGBTQ+ people

+ Mind & Body - Here to increase awareness, promote wellbeing and support colleagues affected by neurodiversity, mental health problems, disability and long-term illness

+ Multicultural - Here to increase awareness and celebrate the different cultures and beliefs that we have in the organisation, so that we all have our cultures felt and feel welcomed

Wellbeing and hybrid working

Our hybrid working approach combines the best of flexible working - a positive work/life balance, inclusive and accessible platforms, and online information at our fingertips. We understand that everyone has different needs, and we strive to create opportunities for relationship building, collaboration and social time.

Each of our teams has a team agreement outlining when and how often we're expected to be in our London Bridge office. We're very welcome to work there more frequently. Office time is a commute, so we pay our own travel costs.

For this role, we would expect the successful candidate to be coming into the London office 1 day per month.