We’re looking for a PR specialist to join the Carrington team. This position’s ideal for someone with two or more years’ PR, communications or journalism experience (either agency or in-house) and who loves the idea of working at a growing PR team, helping to deliver brilliant returns for our clients.
We want someone with bags of talent and passion for PR, communications and copywriting. We have a growing list of clients and no two days will be the same:
We want energetic, ambitious people to join us. In exchange you’ll get a good salary (£27k – £33k, depending on experience) and unbeatable local experience working on different clients across a range of industries (see our case studies). You’ll also have access to further industry training and qualifications, and great opportunities to further your career. We’re building a team of experts that’s passionate about doing great client work, and we want the best people to join us.
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Key responsibilities
- Delivering creative press campaigns and PR campaign ideas for our clients
- Copywriting a range of PR and marketing materials for clients
- Proactively managing a range of client PR accounts
- Developing new angles, stories, comment opportunities and media pitches for our clients
- Offering strategic PR advice to clients to support wider marketing and business objectives
- Building and maintaining good, regular relations with clients, important media contacts and industry spokespeople
- Testing new PR ideas and techniques based on latest industry trends
- Monthly PR reporting (using AMEC Integrated Evaluation Framework)
- Setting client strategies in partnership with our SEO and PPC teams
REQUIREMENTS
Essential
- Experience of managing multiple PR and communications campaigns (independently or as part of a team) and delivering strong press results
- Strong organisation and project management skills
- Strong and diverse copywriting ability
- Great client relationships and team working skills
- Excellent attention to detail, communication skills and timekeeping
Beneficial
- Agency experience
- Knowledge or experience of SEO
- Full, clean driving licence
Experience:
- 2+ years PR, communications or journalism experience (but we hire on passion and talent, not length of service)
BENEFITS
- Salary: £27k – £33k (depending on experience)
- Generous company pension (up to 16% per year)
- Flexible working hours and location (between home and office)
- 26 days holidays per year (plus bank holidays)
- Flexible start date (to suit any notice period)
- New Apple products and home working equipment on joining
- Discounts on cinema tickets, holidays and shopping through Charlie HR Perks at Work
- Cycle to work scheme available
- Monthly team lunches and socials
- Climate positive workforce since April 2021 (see our Ecologi profile)
- Google Partner agency (see our Google profile)