Senior PR and Press Officer

We’ve been championing better work and working lives for over 100 years. We help organisations thrive by focusing on their people, supporting our economies and societies. We’re the professional body for HR, L&D, OD and all people professionals – experts in people, work and change. With over 160,000 members globally – and a growing community using our research, insights and learning – we give trusted advice and offer independent thought leadership.

And we are a leading voice in the call for good work that creates value for everyone.

We offer an inclusive and stimulating culture and a wide range of professional development opportunities, as well as excellent benefits such as 28 days’ holiday with an option to buy and sell days, personal development allowance, access to an award-winning pension scheme and a commitment to wellbeing including a cashback health scheme.

As a Senior PR and Press Officer, you will raise the voice and impact of the CIPD in media and wider communications activities in pursuit of its core purpose of championing better work and working lives. This is an exciting time to join, with new rights for workers and increasing use of AI shaping the world of work. HR and the CIPD are at the heart of these national conversations.

This role offers the chance to support people professionals and employers in navigating these fast-moving changes and in shaping the policy landscape we all work in.

• Managing incoming media enquiries, ensuring journalists receive a prompt and efficient response and briefing spokespeople to help turn incoming enquiries into opportunities to communicate key messages.
• Maximising media coverage to support the CIPD’s strategic priorities and our research, policy and campaign agenda. This will involve regularly translating policy matters and research findings into news stories that will resonate with different stakeholder audiences.
• Being part of the wider Marcomms team, which creates and delivers integrated communications campaigns, and managing the media element of certain campaigns.
• Building and maintaining relationships with trade, national and broadcast journalists as part of our busy press office. You will also work closely with the editorial team that create our CIPD magazines:
  People Management and Work.
• Ensuring the CIPD’s online media centre is an up-to-date resource for the media and members, and that press releases are distributed in a timely way.
• Proactively placing and writing articles for a variety of media, ensuring all articles from CIPD spokespeople are consistent with the CIPD’s key messages.

• Extensive experience in media relations
• Experience of developing and nurturing relationships with national and broadcast media
• Expected to input on qualitative and quantitative media reporting
• An excellent writer and communicator, able to create compelling copy for a range of audiences and channels
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment, juggling competing deadlines and shifting priorities at short notice
• Experience providing consultancy to the rest of the organisation, including the senior management team
• Able to build relationships with teams across the business and external stakeholders
• Experience representing the organisation when working with media and other stakeholders
• Experience of reputation management, and a good understanding of using social media channels to further our key messages

If this role describes you and your career aspirations, click apply. Please note, the Final date to receive applications is on 5 February.

Empowering people; valuing difference. At the CIPD, we believe that every person brings unique perspectives, experiences and strengths that enrich our workplaces and communities. We see diversity as the wide range of visible and non-visible differences that make each of us who we are — including, but not limited to: age, colour, disability, ethnicity, education, gender identity, neurodiversity, religion or belief, relationship status, sex, sexual orientation, socio-economic background and other personal and protected characteristics and experiences.

We are determined to ensuring employment policy and practice promote and deliver EDI at every stage of the employment relationship. This includes not only recognising and understanding how each individual’s personal and protected characteristics can either advantage or disadvantage employment experiences and outcomes, but also to continually strengthen our understanding and sharing the benefits EDI.

Please note, we reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore, we would urge you to submit an application as soon as possible.