Press and media manager

We're a highly motivated team and pride ourselves on excellent cross-team working, creative thinking and strong strategic understanding. Local Trust is a fast-paced organisation which embraces new ideas, so every team member needs to be adaptable and efficient. Suggestions for improvements are encouraged and welcomed - we love to sharpen our practice!

Our priorities our now focused on communicating the legacy and success of our work, we're working closely with colleagues in the policy, research and delivery teams to drive change. Together, we're delivering communications to support Big Local areas and to capture learning from the programme, to secure its reputation for excellence.

About the role

To plan and deliver our work with the press and media, securing positive coverage for our work and protecting against reputational damage that would undermine the legacy of the Big Local programme.

As well as being brilliant at building relationships, you'll be skilled at developing engaging and effective multimedia communications across email, print and digital channels; nurturing and building active online communities; managing relationships with external agencies, freelancers and suppliers; and ensuring our programme communications are creative, inspiring and have the greatest possible impact.