Media Relations Manager
- Employer
- CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY
- Location
- Cranfield, United Kingdom
- Salary
- £33,809 to £37,684 per annum
- Closing date
- 12 Dec 2021
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- Job Type
- Professional Services, Marketing & Communications
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time, Part Time
Job Details
School/Department Communications and External Affairs
Based at Cranfield Campus, Cranfield, Bedfordshire
Hours of work 37 hours per week, normally worked Monday to Friday. Flexible working will be considered.
Contract type Permanent
Salary Full time starting salary is normally in the range of £33,809 to £37,684 per annum
Apply by 12/12/2021
Role Description
Cranfield University’s world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships creates leaders in technology and management globally. Learn more about Cranfield and our unique impact here.
About the role
Reporting to the Head of Media Relations, the role holder is responsible for helping to develop and implement Cranfield’s media relations strategy. This will involve working with senior staff across the University to deliver a wide-ranging programme of media relations activities to enhance the University’s reputation and distinctiveness.
In this role, you will research, develop and write news stories across the University, supporting University-wide media initiatives, content creation and activity.
You will also be a key member of the incident management/crisis communication team.
An experienced media relations specialist, you will ensure that activity is linked to the Schools’ and University’s strategic priorities, enhancing its influence, reputation and profile locally, nationally and internationally.
About You
The role holder is responsible for helping to develop and implement Cranfield’s media relations strategy. This will involve working with senior staff across the University to deliver a wide-ranging programme of media relations activities to enhance the University’s reputation and distinctiveness.
About Us
As a specialist postgraduate university, Cranfield’s world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships are creating leaders in technology and management globally. Learn more about Cranfield and our unique impact here.
Communications and External Affairs (CEA) welcomes applications from media relations professionals for this role.
CEA is responsible for building and protecting Cranfield’s reputation, engaging with a range of stakeholders and raising awareness of Cranfield’s brand and its distinctiveness.
CEA is responsible for the communications, brand and content strategies, supporting the University’s strategic priorities and plans for growth.
Our values and Commitments
Our shared, stated values help to define who we are and underpin everything we do: Ambition; Impact; Respect; and Community. Find out more here.
We aim to create and maintain a culture in which everyone can work and study together and realise their full potential. Find out about our key commitments to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Flexible Working here. We are currently piloting hybrid working arrangements until April 2022. This means the majority of our staff are spending between 40% and 60% of their time working from the office where job roles allow.
How to apply
For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Duncan Murray, Director of Communications and External Affairs, on (E): d.r.murray@cranfield.ac.uk
Company
Cranfield is world-leading in its contribution to global innovation. With our emphasis on the aerospace, agrifood, defence and security, environmental technology, leadership and management, manufacturing and transport systems sectors, we have changed the way society thinks, works and learns.
We generate and transform knowledge, translating it to the benefit of society. Our partners, from micro SMEs to the largest blue-chip multinationals, from governments across the world to NGOs and charities, tell us this is what they value about Cranfield.
Innovation is part of Cranfield’s ‘corporate DNA’, evolved over 60 years of commitment to this agenda.
Our work informs policy for governments and produces new technologies and products for the world of commerce. We draw on this pool of research and consultancy to provide our students with a distinctive ‘real-world’ learning environment, allowing them to develop as professionals and transfer their new knowledge to the global economy. This has always been the ‘Cranfield way’ but it has never been more important than in today’s world.
People are key to our competitive advantage and so we need to attract, develop and retain the best talent for our business. We aim to create a culture where you can flourish and succeed and, in turn, contribute towards Cranfield’s success.
- Telephone
- +(44)01234 750111
- Location
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CRANFIELD
CRANFIELD
BEDFORDSHIRE
MK43 0AL
United Kingdom
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