Media Manager (Emergencies)

Save the Children
£34,000
Permanent
Full Time
London EC1

Save the Children’s fast-moving press office is looking for a proactive and experienced media manager to lead our media work on global emergencies and support media around the EVERYONE campaign.

You will be on the ground as soon as emergency hits, working in a high-pressure environment to deliver powerful and wide-reaching media on our emergency response, our issues and around our emergency appeal. You will come up with creative and high impact ideas to keep emergencies in the news once the media spotlight has turned away. When not in the field, you will help us push for change for children around the world, identifying hard news and feature stories and successfully pitching them to major media outlets, across print, broadcast and online. You will work with teams in the UK and across country programmes, motivating and supporting them to create big media moments and react fast to opportunities to get Save the Children’s messages and issues out there.

If you have are tenacious, creative, have a nose for a story and previous experience of operating in difficult environments, we would love to hear from you. Ref: 5595.

We’re the world’s independent children’s charity. We’re outraged that millions of children are still denied proper healthcare, food, education and protection. We’re working flat out to get every child their rights and we’re determined to make further, faster changes. How many? How fast? It’s up to you.

Closing date: 22 March 2010.

For more information and to apply online go to www.savethechildren.org.uk/jobs