Salary: £46,758

Closing date: Sunday, 26 November 2023

Contract type: Permanent

Wellcome is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships.

We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate.

These challenges need the bold science we support, but they won’t be solved by science alone.

We are looking for a Media Manager, for Wellcome Collection to join our team on a permanent basis.

Where in Wellcome will I be working?

You will be part of Wellcome Collection’s Communications and Marketing team of nine people, reporting to the Communications Lead. You will also work closely with the colleagues across Wellcome Collection, including our curatorial, Collections and Research, Library and Visitor Experience teams, as well as Wellcome’s central Communications teams.

What will I be doing?

You will lead on media relations activities with regard to Wellcome Collection, including Wellcome Library by developing and delivering strategic and tailored media plans, including briefings for journalists and spokespeople, and preparing internal Q&As on issues of major significance. You will work closely with colleagues to ensure integrated external communications across different channels (owned and earned), responsibility for, and advising on media relations aspects of major projects and campaigns.

To achieve this, you will:

• Develop and deliver strategic and tailored media plans for Wellcome Collection.

• Support and advise Wellcome spokespeople and external advocates for Wellcome on how to engage with the media.

• Research, write and edit press materials, including press releases, blog posts and opinion pieces.

• Work with our press agency to coordinate and manage press conferences to ensure that journalists attending are well briefed and have access to interviewees. Organise and staff interviews, press views, photo calls, and filming.

• Monitor Wellcome Collection’s social media channels, in particular Twitter, and respond as appropriate on news-related issues of strategic or reputational importance.

• Embed our anti-racist and anti-ableist principles and involve minoritised communities when developing media plans and materials.

Is this job for me?

Wellcome Collection is introducing a new strategy that puts audiences at the heart of our work and will ensure the museum and library are accessible and inclusive for as many people as possible. This role will play a crucial part in setting a new direction for Wellcome Collection’s communications to achieve these ambitious commitments.

We’re looking for someone who has a proven track record in / with:

• Experience of media relations in-house, at an agency or experience as a journalist dealing with sensitive and high-profile issues and delivering high-profile campaigns.

• Excellent contacts in the media and cultural world, and a keen understanding of both.

• Excellent written, editing and oral communication skills, including writing and pitching comment and opinion articles in national and international media.

• Excellent proactive and reactive media relations skills, including leading media campaign strategies and crisis management. Financial management and budgetary skills.

• Able to advise on complex issues of strategic and reputational importance.

• Experience in supporting Wellcome’s journey to becoming an anti-racist, anti-ablest organisation. You’ll be an important champion of our Inclusive Communications Principles, building these into your own work and helping to promote them to the wider organisation.

To apply please upload your current CV and complete our short application.

Interview dates: Early December 2023

You can view the full job description on our website

You can read more about the benefits we offer our employees on our website

Our Hybrid Way of Working

We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best We are currently working 2 days per week (Tuesdays and Wednesdays) from our Euston Road offices (as part of our hybrid Ways of Working) with the remaining 3 days from home.

Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do

Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome . We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. Please visit our website for more information on adjustments and accessibility, or contact us at jobs@wellcome.org.

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