Job Title: Head of Media
Location: London / Hybrid
Salary : £45,000 - £65,000 per annum based upon experience plus discretionary bonus and comprehensive benefits
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
Role Overview:
This is an opportunity for an experienced media professional to own techUK's voice in the national conversation on technology and policy, running a busy press office and shaping how the UK's most contested tech issues are argued in public.
As Head of Media, you will lead techUK's response to fast-moving Government announcements, regulatory developments and industry news on behalf of our more than 1,200 members, often to tight deadlines. No two days are the same, from rapid-response commentary on data centres, AI regulation or defence procurement to proactive outreach on robotics in healthcare or international trade. You will bring clarity to complex issues and protect our reputation as a relevant, credible and influential trade association.
You will sit at the heart of techUK's operation. You will be in the room as our positions are developed, brief the Senior Leadership Team before broadcast and interviews, and join meetings with Government and regulators alongside our policy leads. Few in-house media roles offer this proximity to the substance, and it is what turns press handling into genuine influence.
Reporting to the Director of Marketing, Membership and Communications, you will run the press office, set and deliver our proactive media strategy, manage our spokespeople and lead issues and crisis communications. Success is measured by cut-through rather than volume: the quality and placement of coverage, and whether techUK's arguments shape the debate on the issues that matter most to our members.
Key Responsibilities:
Own techUK's press office, responding to often technical and time-sensitive media enquiries across the technology policy landscape.
Set and deliver techUK's proactive communications, identifying news opportunities that raise techUK's profile and support the wider technology sector.
Run techUK's spokespeople operation: developing briefings, delivering media training sessions, sitting in on interviews and accompanying colleagues to in-person interviews where appropriate.
Lead issues and crisis communications, prepar...
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