Entertainment Careers Casting Calls and Auditions

We are an award-winning international publisher based in the UK and the US. As an independent publisher we offer a uniquely responsive service tailored to each project. Forward thinking and agile we have adapted well to the challenges of Covid while continuing to grow strongly and deliver a world class publishing service to our authors and clients. We work hard to prioritise the wellbeing of our staff and aim always to get the best from people by creating a flexible, supportive, and encouraging work culture.

This new role represents an exciting opportunity to join the expanding Editorial department. Based in the vibrant town of Cheltenham, we are an enthusiastic and motivated team seeking to appoint new talent. 

Reporting to the Senior Editor, Elgar Original Reference, the ideal applicant will possess:

• A demonstrable interest in publishing and the social sciences
• Strong motivational skills and the ability to work independently
• Excellent organizational and communication skills

A detailed job description is available on request. Closing date 31st December 2022

Edward Elgar Publishing is committed to promoting equality of opportunity and to creating an inclusive and diverse working environment where all individuals can thrive. We encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Apply by email with CV and a cover letter to: Miss Toni Steele, [email protected]

This is a UK based role in Cheltenham.

Edward Elgar Publishing

My client is a leading luxury retail business who are looking for a Public Relations expert who can take responsibility for delivering high impact results, delivering footfall, awareness and spend. This should be driven through supporting press and clients with strategic editorials and activations. Helping to grow customer acquisition, reach and awareness across the regions.

Key Responsibilities

•The position is to act as an ambassadorial role in London developing their network and growing their awareness across Private Clients and Press

•Responsible for implementing and measuring the success of a comprehensive media relations, wider press and VIP plans to drive segmented and targeted results.

•Helping to support an active Press Office team dedicated to drive proactive media relations in line with the national strategy – developing proactive outreach and mapping out new opportunities.

•Curating traction with opinion leaders to grow their advocacy, increase awareness, reach and add to the customer acquisition strategy

•Development of media relations campaigns

•Proactively pitching relevant media stories to press on a day-to-day basis and meeting press and VIPs in London

•Proactively pitching relevant media stories to press on a day-to-day basis and meeting press and VIPs in London

•Collating press coverage and results for all activities created with comprehensive AAR reports

•Liaising with the PR agency to create press worthy assets

The ideal candidate will have extensive agency or client-side experience gained within retail/luxury.

If this sounds of interest, please contact wendygray@cartermurry for a confidential conversation.

Carter Murray

PR Account Director | Award-Winning PR Agency | London

The Client

Harmonic are proud to be working with one of UK’s leading technology PR agencies in the search for a PR Account Director to join their team in the London offices. The agency has strong expertise on working with global, start-up and scale-up technology brands, working on a range of sectors including Fintech, Consumer & Enterprise Tech, and Communications & Cloud. They’re currently working with one of the top 3 internationally successful technology businesses and expecting another 4 global accounts to be signed off before the new year. They are looking for an Account Director with talent and ambition who has at least 4 years’ experience in comms.

The agency describes their culture as compassionate and collaborative, with an emphasis on inclusion and a flat structure. They provide a huge amount of support for employees to progress rapidly in their career and have a direct impact on the companies success. The office space is located in a vibrant and diverse location tailored to promote outstanding performance from employees.

The Role

This position will be effectively managing and overseeing a PR team to ensure exceptional campaigns are delivered to the client and helping to identify and gain new accounts. This role would only be suitable to someone who is creative, commercially minded and have an excellent ability at building and maintaining relationships.

• Consulting and providing senior strategy for client accounts
• Developing stories and pitches to the board, client’s, and key stakeholders
• Acting as a team leader ensuring support is provided for more junior positions and leading account managers with performance reviews and support
• Analysing projects and ensuring they’re profitable
• Keeping up with current trends, news, and everchanging culture
• Media relations and relevant contact list
• Ability to deal with short deadlines and keep calm under pressure
• Having a direct impact on the company

Required Experience

• Leadership and management skills within a PR agency on in-house position
• Exceptional written, verbal and presentation skills
• Working with social platforms and their features to target audiences
• Evidence of successfully gaining new clients and providing pitches for accounts
• Collaborative, inquisitive, flexible
• Supporting and managing multiple clients at the same time

Start Date: ASAP

Salary: £55,000 – £65,000 (depending on experience)

Location: London

Please get in touch at [email protected], or at 0161 511 8385.

Please feel free to circulate this with any friends or contacts that may be interested.

Follow us on Twitter: @HarmonicGroupHQ

Harmonic Operations™ | Certified B Corp

£40,425 per annum (hybrid) / £36,755 per annum (remote) 35 hrs a week

Hybrid with 1 day per week in our London office and the rest from home or Remote with 2 days per month in our London office and the rest from home.

Full-time or part-time options will be considered.

What we do: We help young people through cancer

How we work: We’re Determined, United, Spirited and Kind

What we’re looking for:

• Someone that can ensure the issues that matter most to young people with cancer are at the heart of our PR and media activity.
• Someone who can work with respect and empathy directly with our young people to support and empower them to publicly share their stories in the media.
• Someone who can play a leading role in delivering media strategies raise the profile of the company’s influencing, fundraising and services portfolios with our key audiences
• Someone who can build connections across the organisation to ensure the free flow of news and stories that we need to achieve our goals

How to apply:

You’ll need to register on our portal, complete a short application and answer four questions about your skills and experience in relation to the role.

Key dates: Applications by 5th December 2022, 1st Interviews held online on 12th December 2022 and 2nd interviews held face to face in London (TBC) on 19th December 2022.

Compliance statements:

At the company one of our key focuses is around equity and making sure our services are accessible and inclusive to all young people with cancer, with no-one left behind. We have the same goal for people working with us. We want you to be yourself here and thrive doing so. In line with our Equity, Diversity & Inclusion commitments, we would love to see applications from LGBTQ+ people, people of colour/those from ethnically diverse communities, people living with disabilities and people of faith.

At the company we take our commitment to safeguarding seriously and work to protect and promote the rights of the young people who we support. Our safeguarding responsibilities extend to the children and adults who work to support the charity, who we also have a duty of care to protect. Safeguarding is at the forefront of each activity we carry out. In line with our approach, this role is subject to a DBS check (Disclosure and Barring Service).

For information on how we collect, store and process personal data please refer to our privacy policy, please contact HR.

We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential. If there is any assistance or adjustments, we can make to support you to make your application, please contact HR.

DiverseJobsMatter

Publicity Assistant – Entertainment

Talent

We are currently working with a fantastic PR agency, who are keen on staying ahead of the curve when it comes to looking after their top tier talent. With a roster of talent spanning across Television, Lifestyle, Music, Radio, Podcasts and Books and more, this is an opportunity not to be missed!

This role is for a Publicity Assistant to focus on the talent PR support as well as other PR duties within the agency. This candidate must be super eager, fascinated by the world of entertainment and highly driven for progression. If you are a recent graduate with a passion for entertainment and PR or someone who is ready to kick start their career in publicity, then this could be the perfect role.

Key responsibilities

• Staying up to date with coverage emails
• Help create call sheets for talent photoshoots
• Liaise with clients and managers to organize interviews and photoshoots
• Assist publicists at photo shoots and interviews
• Look out and spot potential new talent!
• Monitor coverage for your teams clients
• Flagging any press that could be of concern to clients publicist
• Send daily coverage emails to clients
• Keep an eye on the media
• Create media lists for specific client announcements
• Compile and send campaign reports to clients
• Help publicists find relevant contacts
• Work closely with the social media team to ensure client coverage moments are posted on socials
• Keep across teams to ensure clients feel equally represented on their socials

You will have:

• excellent grammar and spelling
• A confident and enthusiastic mindset
• The ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Enthusiasm towards the world of entertainment

Please get in touch if this sounds like the role for you!

Handle Recruitment

Davies global expansion has opened an exciting opportunity for a self-motivated, and savvy PR manager to join our quickly growing marketing & communications function to help maintain and increase Davies’ strong profile across insurance and other highly regulated markets.

Delivering specialist professional services and technology solutions, Davies works in partnership with leading insurance, highly regulated and global businesses. You’ll help shape and oversee Davies’ media strategy and accelerate our growth targeting leading global insurers and other regulated markets through engaging storytelling and publicity.

Your day-to-day responsibilities

• Help shape and oversee the delivery of Davies media strategy
• Bring and build excellent relationships with the media
• Work with colleagues across the business to find and develop agenda-setting stories
• Be the first port of call for journalists and other organisations we work to influence, responding quickly, confidently, and sensitively to negative or critical news stories, and to positive requests
• Uncover, present, and deliver creative ways to get our issues & expertise into the news
• Proactively drive and generate positive news coverage in industry trade publications, local news outlets and national media
• Write press releases and other media materials to ensure messaging is clear and aligned with the business
• Manage daily media monitoring, and associated services, and help produce communications analyses to demonstrate media impact
• Work collaboratively/strategically with global marketing and internal communications colleagues across the locations Davies operates from

About you

• Excellent judgement and ability to work at pace and under pressure
• Exceptional understanding of the media landscape and how print and broadcast media operate
• You have worked in a busy press function with a track record of influencing and persuading senior leaders
• You will have an in-depth understanding of what makes engaging content and an eye for a story

Desirable

• You have excellent contacts across the media mix, come from an insurance background with the technical knowledge to confidently advise on how to approach complex market challenges in the media

Diversity & Inclusion

Davies are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, we welcome candidates of all genders, gender identity and expression, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, nationality and belief (or lack thereof).

Rewards and Recognition

Innovation: We embrace innovation and run an annual competition available for all colleagues to submit their ideas. 2021’s top 10 finalists will travel to Nashville in Tennessee, USA where they will pitch their ideas to our investors, HGGC. The winner will receive funding to bring their idea to life, as well as rewards for the runners up, some of our colleagues have moved across into brand new positions to further develop their ideas/projects!

Recognition: Kudos recognition is a tool to help you recognise and reward colleagues across the business to say thank you for a job done well, going above and beyond their role, getting involved in CSR and other business initiatives. Rewards are sent to the top 200 people on the leader board at the end of each calendar month.

Other benefits include:

• Leadership, training & support for professional qualifications
• Development programmes & institute memberships
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Virtual GP and other wellbeing resources and regular company initiatives
• Access to Cycle to Work, Season Ticket Loan
• Company Pension and Life Assurance

CSR

CSR is important to us here at Davies. The Davies Foundation is our registered charity, through which we do good and give back to the local communities where our people live & work. Our people fundraise by taking part in all types of events and activities, and Davies matches pound for pound the fundraising efforts of our people raising money for our charity.

Davies

Status: Full time | Home-based in Canada or the US

About PVI

PVI provides continuing medical education (CME) and professional development activities targeted at local, regional, and national levels. By leveraging innovation in educational design and application of adult learning principles, we strive to be a trusted partner in reducing professional practice gaps and fostering continuous professional development. Driving improvements in a range of clinical practice and process areas and encompassing interdisciplinary and systems approaches to disease prevention and patient diagnosis and management, we aim to improve patient outcomes by impacting those professionals in active patient care roles. PVI measures the success of educational interventions on the basis of their demonstrated impact on reducing the professional practice discrepancies.

Description

The editorial assistant performs a variety of editorial tasks, including slide formatting, preparing content to be redrawn by graphic designers, and preparing of content for production, for continuing medical education activities for a variety of therapeutic audiences. The ideal candidate for this entry-level position has an excellent command of the English language, superior Microsoft Word and PowerPoint skills, the ability to understand scientific or medical content, and a desire to develop higher-level editorial skills. Successful candidates will be able to juggle a variety of tasks in a fast-paced, home-based environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Format slides for live, virtual, and enduring continuing medical education activities
• Prepare and review materials for narration, audiovisual editing, or graphic design
• Coordinate with managing editors and production team to handle a variety of tasks necessary to launch virtual, live, and enduring activities
• Develop and maintain knowledge of the rules and regulations that govern medical education and continuing professional development (eg, ACCME) and internal style requirements (eg, AMA, internal style guide)

Qualifications

• Experience as a proofreader, fact checker, copyeditor, or production editor
• An undergraduate degree in science, communications, or journalism
• Proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Word, and familiarity with Adobe Acrobat Professional
• Ability to handle a variety of tasks for continuing medical education activities in various stages of development, while maintaining high standards of quality
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education

Senior PR & Communications Manager

Working closely with the Head of Marketing to develop and deliver a strategic, outcomes-focused PR & Communications plan supporting an ambitious company vision for a fast-paced, fast-growing SAAS technology company.

YOUR ROLE:

• Develop and own public relations and communications strategy to support business-wide goals and make noise about THRIVE’s key milestones, product developments, future plans and people updates.
• Develop media stories and pitches that align with the THRIVE vision, ethos, culture and journey. From planning to execution and analysis.
• Build and maintain critical relationships with key media outlets, focusing on target national and international publications, as well as learning media, business press and trade press.
• Work closely with key stakeholders across the business to support personal branding initiatives as part of wider strategy.
• Advise on the role of PR and communications in key strategic business initiatives.
• Advise on and implement additional media channels e.g. podcasts to spread awareness of THRIVE
• Draft outstanding quality press materials including press releases, employee profiles, pitches, bylined articles, blogs and other content.
• Become the point of contact for external media enquiries, and ensure brand guidelines and key messaging are communicated to relevant external stakeholders.
• Manage a PR & Awards Specialist to drive strategic planning and execution of an ambitious awards strategy.
• Work closely with customer marketing to support customer advocacy and feed customer stories into speaking/media opportunities, and customer case studies/testimonials.

ABOUT YOU:

• Strong journalist relationships across tech and business media
• Highly organised, self-directed and passionate about showcasing THRIVE’s growth and successes
• Able to craft compelling copy and seamlessly adapt tone, PoV etc as required
• Excellent at juggling multiple projects and deadlines, whilst maintaining attention to detail
• Able to analyse PR initiatives and recommend / implement adjustments
• Happy to work independently and cross-functionally as and when required
• PR or agency experience in the tech sector (preferably B2B)
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, energetic, ever-changing environment

THRIVE

Soccer Aid for UNICEF 2023

Job description

Contractor: Soccer Aid Productions Limited (SAP)

Status: Contractor – day rate agreed for circa 100 day’s work

(Use of own editing kit preferred)

Job title: Freelance Video Producer

Reporting to: Head of Content and Social Media

Location: Working from home; some requirement to attend content capture shoots and meetings in London

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9.00am – 5.30pm. This role will require some out of office hours working at shoots and during training week and matchday

Engagement period: Mid-January – June inclusive (five and a half months)

Salary: TBD dependent on experience

Position in the organisation

The Video Producer will be responsible for creating video content for the 2023 Soccer Aid for UNICEF campaign. This role will help deliver quality content for Soccer Aid for UNICEF, talent, partner and stakeholder channels.

You will know the Adobe suite inside out, but have particular skill in Premiere Pro. Advanced knowledge of After Effects would be a big advantage as would the ability to film content and have your own equipment. The candidate will have a passion for best practice digital output and seeing an exciting campaign activated through video content.

You will be exposed to senior managers and stakeholders both within SAP, UNICEF and key partners. You will need to thrive in a role that requires creative thinking, quick decision making and negotiation to deliver results.

Purpose and Responsibilities of the Video Producer

·      Help deliver SAP campaign objectives through the delivery of high quality and high quantity Soccer Aid content across different platforms and for different stakeholders

·      Edit video content shot by our in-house team in a timely manner and in different formats

·      Take a brief and bring it to life through your edit – this could be anything from a 30-second TikTok video to a 10-minute YouTube video.

·      You will know your social media formats like you know left and right – from 16:9 to 4:5 and 9:16.

·      Ensure the in-house content and social team are kept up to date with edit progress and adapt to feedback and amends

·      Work closely with social media staff to help develop edits for specific platforms like TikTok and IG stories

·      Understand and work to approved brand guidelines

·      Take an active role in generating creative content ideas to activate talent at shoots and by using Soccer Aid archive

·      Attend talent shoots to assist the content production process

·      In conjunction with the social and content production teams, assist with a programme of market-leading content during training week and match day

Person Specification

·      Expert knowledge of Adobe creative suite, in particular Premiere Pro

·      Owning editing kit and software is preferable

·      Demonstrable history working in content production environment

·      Ability to work to a brief and add your own creativity

·      Creative, proactive and collaborative individual

·      Strong communications skills

·      Ownership and use of high-end cameras is desirable, but not essential (Sony FX9 or similar)

To apply

Please apply with a CV and showreel to [email protected] and use the subject ‘Video Producer application – Soccer Aid 2023’

Soccer Aid for UNICEF

The brainwave of UNICEF UK ambassador Robbie Williams and Triple S, Soccer Aid for UNICEF brings together two teams of celebrities and football legends from England and the Soccer Aid World XI FC for the biggest charity celebrity football match in the World. The event started in 2006 and since then has raised nearly £75million to help UNICEF UK.

Soccer Aid Productions Limited

Soccer Aid Productions Limited (SAP) is responsible for delivering Soccer Aid for UNICEF and raising substantial funds from both a commercial and fundraising perspective for UNICEF UK. SAP’s ambition is to grow Soccer Aid and the Soccer Aid World XI brand in the UK and internationally to increase revenue and deliver change for children worldwide. SAP work closely with the best in class partners, namely; Initial as Producers of the live TV event and ITV as broadcasters of the prime-time television show. 

UNICEF UK

UNICEF is the world’s leading organisation focusing on children and child rights, with a presence in more than 190 countries. UNICEF ensure more of the world’s children are vaccinated, educated and protected than any other organisation, influencing laws and policies that protect children around the world. Their aim is a world is a safe place for all our children.

UNICEF is supported entirely by voluntary contributions receiving no money from the UN. As champion of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF ensure government’s protect and promote the rights of every child. 

Soccer Aid Productions

Account Director – B2B Tech PR

LEADING AGENCY, HUGE TECH BRANDS!!

We are looking for a talented, creative and ambitious Account Director to be part of one of the UK’s most dynamic and imaginative technology PR agencies. The role would suit a candidate who is passionate about B2B comms and has at least five years’ experience.

The successful applicant will join a team supporting on a portfolio of well-known brands, as well as some high-growth accounts.

The role requires…

• A consultant who is able to provide senior counsel and strategy to clients
• A team leader – passionate about coaching, supporting and nurturing more junior team members
• Knowledge of the UK media landscape
• A talented writer / content creator
• A senior agency lead – able to play an important role as part of the agency’s senior team
• A level head and ability to stay calm under pressure
• Experience in account strategy, delivery, development and growth
• Contribution to the overall development of the agency – including culture, brand and client service
• A creative thinker that challenges the norm and approaches a brief with new ideas

PLACIDO