Media Manager
Your day-to-day role will be working on External Communications within our Customer Experience Team, but your contribution will be far wider as you help us to deliver clean, safe drinking water to all our 3.8 million customers every single day across the South East of England
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As a Media Manager, you will focus on delivering proactive and reactive news releases and blogs for Affinity Water to enhance the company’s reputation with national, local, regional and broadcast media and build on the excellent reputation we have established with the trade pre
ss.If you are interested in the environment this role will suit you. You may be reporting on new Water Resources Management Plan, our Catchment Management Plan or our work on restoring River flows. We operate in a supply area which is uniquely home to 10% of all globally rare chalk streams. Although we have sufficient water to serve our customers now, we need to reduce abstraction from boreholes near these rare chalk habitats in the longer te
rm.The combination of population growth, demand for water, climate change and the need to leave more water in the environment, particularly for our vulnerable chalk streams, means we need to identify and implement some significant changes to the way that we manage both the supply and demand for water in our area.You will be responsible for providing advice and key insights into the media, using your top-level contacts, to help inform media strategies that support key business objectives.You will be securing media interviews for the CEO and Directors and providing regular media interview briefings to them to ensure they are fully prepared before broadcast media interviews and know the tricky issues that are dominating the headlines.You will monitor our media coverage and give regular updates on what our impact is and how it can be improved. Working alongside our Stakeholder teams you will be alert to what issues are likely to be on the horizon for us and feeding into their work streams.You will use your knowledge of the Utility Sector to suggest new topics to prepare releases and blogs on and be familiar with the topical issues that dominate the press headlines. You will feed into our “mission to explain” output to improve perceptions of the Company and the industry.From time to time, you will be required to answer the reactive media inquiries and prepare statements to the local press as and when these arise working alongside the production teams to prepare these.You will also be required to be part of our fast-fire reactive crisis communications team on standby out of hours, working on a regular rota basis. This is a real learning curve for anybody interested in the industry and how it operates as an emergency service particularly during hot weather spells and winter freeze and thaws. You will need a cool head, but it will help prepare you for you next step up the comms ladder.
Got what it takes to succeed?
Here at Affinity Water, we attract and nurture the top talent. It’s the pride we take in our delivery and performance. In order to excel in this role, you will have a passion for working within a bustling marketing and press environment with the flexibility to adapt to changing surroundings. You will be based in our Head office in Hatfield, however this role also requires some remote working. You will have at least 5 years’ experience of working in journalism at senior levels and have experience of producing blogs and digital content.
What’s in it for you?
You’ll be based in our modern and spacious offices within the heart of Hatfield Business Park with on-site bistro and parking facilities. If you fancy a walk or a bite to eat at lunch off-site, you won’t be short of choices.In return for all your excellent work, we’ll provide you with a double-matching pension scheme and a holiday allowance that increases with length of service, which means that the longer you stay, the more you gain!We are also committed to developing your career progression. and will support the cost of your professional fees to help you get to where you want to be.As a further thank you, we will give you access to a wide range of shopping and entertainment discounts. Who wouldn’t want money off their weekly shop or night out at the cinema? If that wasn’t enough, we’ll give you access to support of your wellbeing with tips such as healthy eating recipes and mindfulness techniques.
Benefits include:
- Salary £40-45k
- Hybrid Flexible working – Office based 3 days per week
- Company annual bonus
- 27 days holiday
- SMART Pension Scheme – we double match your contribution to 12%
- Discounts for Medical and Dental Insurance, Retail Outlets
- Volunteer days
- Company annual bonus
- Life Assurance
- Above all, our company culture is unique, personable, friendly and diverse and we welcome applications from all! You will have the opportunity to create, shape and drive something new for Affinity water with a great deal of responsibility with endless opportunity for impact and freedom for initiatives.
Thirsty for more?
You can find out what it’s like to work at Affinity Water through our career site https://www.affinitywatercareers.co.uk/ where our colleagues share their career development stories and you can get a feel for our company culture.
Don’t forget to look at all the good work that we do at Affinity Water through our social media channels. You too can help shape our successful save water campaigns and make sure that there is enough water for the future. https://www.affinitywater.co.uk/saveourstreams/tips
Tell us how you would be a great fit for this role by following our quick and simple application process and we will respond back to you shortly.
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