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London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Key Responsibilities include:•Proactively developing and implementing media strategies to demonstrate the agency’s wider contribution to public health and increase its breadth of media and social media coverage, in line with agency objectives. •Anticipating key issues in a timely manner and responding quickly and accurately to breaking or negative stories to limit potentially damaging media coverage.•Producing appropriate written communications such as media handling strategies, press releases and media lines to take to effectively communicate agency messages.•Arranging press conferences and media briefings, as well as facilitating requests for filming opportunities, arranging media broadcast interviews and maximising social media channels.• Support social media campaigns and using social media channels and communities to communicate.• Participating in a 24 hour media on-call rota. .•Liaising with external agency stakeholders on topical media issues, developing and maintaining lines of co-operation and demarcation.•Playing a proactive role in delivering the agency’s communications strategy and media relations strategyI worked on handling issues such as the PIP breast implant fraud, safety concerns about metal hip implants, medicines recalls, and the investigation into the baby deaths from a contaminated hospital feed.Played a leading role in campaigns including an annual awareness raising campaign on the dangers of buying medicines online

Lead responsibility for dealing with enquiries from the media and writing and issuing press releases. Drawing up ‘lines to take’ on emerging issuesDesigning strategies to gain maximum positive coverage. Briefing key members of staff on relevant issues in the media. Protecting the reputation of the organisation.Led the media relations activity into increasing compensation for egg and sperm donors

London, United Kingdom

Primary responsibility to gain positive coverage for reports into progress towards reducing emissions of greenhouse gasses in the UK and a report into emissions from aviation. Drawing up strategies to gain maximum positive coverage as well as dealing with stakeholders.

Freelance PR Role relating to their store card and Beauty Club Card. This has involved both internal and external (customer) communications.

Responsible for writing and issuing press releases. Dealing with reactive enquiries from the print and broadcast media. Often writing reactive statements to stories breaking in the news. Significant pro-active selling in stories to media. Briefing members of staff on key issues relating to prostate cancer appearing in the media.

Responsible for writing and issuing press releases. Dealing with reactive enquiries from the print and broadcast media. Pro-active selling in OFT stories to media. Briefing OFT officials on how to handle media interviews and put across key messages in an effective way. Involvement in longer term media training.Dealing with campaigns as well as one-off stories. As diverse as scams awareness month, detailed stories regarding the distribution of medicines and the legality of bank charges.

Post Graduate Diploma In Broadcast Journalism, Broadcast Journalism

Ba (Hons) Social Science (Politics), Ba (Hons) Social Science (Politics)