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Salary: £41,881 – £45,380
Contract: Fixed term (until March 2027)
Location: London – Hybrid working (Farringdon office 1-2 days/week)
Closing date: Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
Benefits: Competitive benefits package including flexible working
We’re delighted to be supporting a leading national charity to recruit a Senior Press and PR Officer (Policy and Research) on a maternity cover contract. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a high-performing external communications team and take the lead on media and PR activity linked to policy, research, and influencing work.
Working in a busy press office environment, you will play a key role in raising awareness of important social issues, developing compelling media stories, and engaging with journalists, policymakers, and senior stakeholders. You will create impactful press materials, respond to breaking news, and act as a trusted advisor to senior colleagues on PR strategy and media engagement.
To be successful in this role, you will need:
- Proven experience delivering proactive and reactive PR campaigns, including handling crisis communications
- Experience working with senior stakeholders and an interest in policy, media, and influencing work
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to produce engaging press content
If you would like to discuss this role with us, please contact us and quote the reference 2978AJ.
Ashby Jenkins Recruitment are a specialist charity recruitment agency. We use our extensive sector knowledge and experience to match candidates to the most suitable charity roles. We are passionate about improving equality across the sector—you can read more about our commitment to diversity https://www.ashbyjenkinsrecruitment.co.uk/our-commitment-to-diversity/.
If enough applications are received, the charity reserves the right to close the role earlier.
Thank you!
Location: London or ITF Regional Hub
Contract: Permanent, Full-Time
We are looking for an experienced professional with a blend of communications and media experience who can push forward a union-led strategic communications agenda, and who can also enhance the ITF’s position in the media as the global voice of transport workers. This hands-on role will span communications and media work across the ITF.
You will be part of a team delivering solidarity and support to local, national and global disputes, building communications that reinforce the critical role of transport workers around the world, developing strategies to support union-led policies on everything from health and safety to sustainability, and raising the volume on the global struggle to advance the rights of transport workers everywhere.
Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, this role will work collaboratively to implement communications strategies for the ITF’s industrial work programmes and their priority campaigns. The role will include targeting diverse audiences including transport workers, employers, media, policy makers and political leaders. The role will also play a crucial role in ensuring that industrial priorities and issues are reflected and integrated in organisation-wide communications.
The Communications and Press Officer will lead on the implementation of the ITF’s global media strategy: the role is pivotal to securing media coverage that raises awareness of the work and priorities of the ITF internationally, across broadcast, print, online media and trade press, while also monitoring the media coverage we gain, evaluating impact and providing insights to help shape future media work.
The role will also be central to developing communications content across the ITF’s industrial sections, from website news stories to in-depth reports and communications support for ITF conferences, meetings and other events: you will need to be able to develop expert knowledge of policy and industrial issues facing transport workers, and effectively interpret and analyse issues and challenges and translate them into compelling and engaging communications outputs.
We are looking for someone who is able to develop, manage and maintain strong relationships and operate in a politically charged environment, someone who has a growth mindset, thinks globally, works with a relational approach, is receptive to feedback, actively values diversity, and who acts with integrity and transparency.
If you’re driven to improve the lives and livelihoods of workers through undertaking innovative and bold communications work, we invite you to apply.
About the team
The role of the ITF Communications Team is to elevate our work on global issues and drive collective action to improve the rights of all transport workers.
The Communications Department leads strategic thinking around communications across the ITF’s industrial sections, global regions and key areas of focus, including women and young transport workers, sustainability, health and safety, the future of work and supply chain accountability. The scope is vast.
You’ll join a team committed to using its skills and knowledge to push the envelope for worker and people-driven change ― working to advance the ITF’s current strategic directions:
- To grow and activate our membership.
- To position the ITF at the forefront of innovative campaigning.
- To influence global and regional policy.
The team sets and delivers strategic communications, setting the creative and strategic vision for digital engagement, content production, design, branding, media relations and building stronger networks and collaboration with our affiliated unions.
This position is based at our London headquarters, though we warmly welcome applications from candidates who would prefer to work from one of the ITF's regional offices around the world; in such cases, salary and benefits will be aligned with the relevant regional office location.
Non Charity Employer
101 - 500
Every day transport workers keep the world moving – connecting millions of people across our cities and countries
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.