Media and Public Relations Manager

Are you a media and PR specialist looking for a new challenge with an empowering, caring and courageous organisation?
- Interested in health, wellbeing and making peoples’ lives better?
- Sydney or Brisbane? Hybrid or Remote Opportunity

Are you a media and PR specialist looking for a new challenge with an empowering, caring and courageous organisation?

Interested in health, wellbeing and making peoples’ lives better?

Love the idea of working with impactful, issues-rich content and emotive storytelling as part of an ambitious, inspiring team?

If you’re someone who thrives when working in collaboration with others towards a shared purpose, this could be the one for you

Finding a job that makes your heart sing is something special - we think this is one of those rare opportunities.
- This is a super flexible opportunity - remote/WFH options are available, with some office attendance required (Brisbane or Sydney)._

**About the opportunity**

The purpose of this role is to position and elevate profile and key messaging in the media through effective PR activities.

While managing a national media profile might seem like a typical remit for you, this opportunity is a truly exciting one - think significant scope and impact - and influencing change on important community issues.

Consumer focused and evidenced based, working with individuals, government and a network of partners, this is more than a public health organisation. They’re a change agent, guiding a movement that changes the way this health condition is managed.
- Could you use your exceptional writing, PR and media skills to be part of this change?_

If you’re looking for a PR job with purpose and an opportunity to really make your mark, let’s talk

**More about the role**

Reporting to and supported by the Brand and Engagement Lead, this busy and exciting role will see you working in collaboration with colleagues across marketing, communications and engagement; policy and advocacy; research, information and evaluation; programs and partnerships and directly with the leadership team.

As part of an outward-facing organisation, you’ll love working in partnership with other organisations, experts, academics, government, the media and consumers to develop key messages and tell the stories which raise profile and help make change.

You will be responsible for:

- driving PR and media activity in line with organisational strategy
- develop and execute ideas to increase earned PR, increase profile and influence
- end to end media management including pitching and coordinating opportunities
- effective and timely reactive media management
- extending all media and PR activity to the organisation’s Twitter presence
- developing key messages and content for use across various channels
- supporting and advising media spokespeople
- fostering relationships with key partners and allies towards joint media and PR activities
- managing relationships with industry spokespeople, identifying opportunities to actively grow this network
- work closely with your engagement colleagues to access and tell stories of lived experience in media and PR activity
- provide advice and guidance on risk management, support issues management
- media monitoring, tracking and reporting on media value
- partner with individual consumers and groups on campaigns and events.

**About you**

You’re a positive, versatile and proactive PR and media professional with an interest in health, environment and social issues.

Energetic and driven, you’re keen to make your mark and grow in this exciting role and organisation.

You want to do work with impact, but with your emotional intelligence and healthy dose of humility, you work in a team for a bigger purpose.

You’re naturally consultative, open to feedback and can embrace highly collaborative ways of work.

You might be working in a PR or comms agency or an in-house role, either way you live and breathe media and enjoy the role Twitter plays in PR.

You’re a strong communicator on and off the page and have the ability and appetite to distil large amounts of information into clear messaging, content and engaging stories.

**What’s on offer**
- use your PR skills for purpose
- join a tenacious team and organisation
- opportunity to manage and build a national media profile
- work with highly engaged and committed stakeholders
- positive, supportive, empowering culture
- strong focus on work/life balance and wellbeing
- permanent part time role, 0.8 FTE
- remote working, ideally with ability to attend office 1 day per week
- FTE salary $80-85k (pro rata to 0.8 FTE) + super + salary packaging

**Interested?**:
We’re so glad

Heart Talent Collective is committed to responding to every applicant.