Media Co-ordinator Job Description & Person Specification
Job Description
The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is a UK-wide campaigning organisation. CAAT receives national, international, regional, local and specialist media coverage. CAAT wishes to appoint a Media Co-ordinator, to work four days per week to sustain and develop CAAT's media profile and the media components of its campaigns.
CAAT's Media Co-ordinator will be responsible for the development, planning and execution of CAAT's media work. This will include:
- developing media strategies for CAAT campaigns and events in collaboration with other staff
- developing and maintaining good links with national, international, regional, local and specialist journalists working in print, broadcast and online media
- proactively contacting journalists to pitch stories
- producing news releases, articles and letters for use by a variety of media
- responding to media enquiries
- acting as CAAT's principal media spokesperson and briefing others giving interviews
- assisting CAAT's local media activists and giving support and advice on media engagement
- overseeing and developing CAAT's use of new media, including the CAAT Blog, monthly ebulletin for supporters and CAAT's presence on networking and discussion sites
- liaising with the editor of CAATnews to ensure that it effectively promotes CAAT's campaigns, views and priorities
- maintaining administrative systems to support CAAT's media work
- share responsibility for campaign planning and organisational strategy
- be responsible for supervising volunteers undertaking relevant areas of work
- share the day-to-day running and administration of the CAAT office, which works as a collective
- cover for other staff members during holidays and other absences
- be a member of the CAAT Steering Committee, which has ultimate responsibility for the organisation
Person Specification
Essential skills:
- has a commitment to CAAT's aims and objectives as set out in the first section of About CAAT (enclosed) and has been involved with a campaigning organisation
- has at least two years' experience of media work
- has experience of planning and implementing media strategies for specific campaigns or events
- has developed and maintained strong professional relationships with journalists
- has secured media coverage and has experience of producing some of the following: news releases, articles, quotes, photo opportunities and letters for use by the media
- has a demonstrable ability to respond to enquiries from journalists and provide information
- is an effective communicator, using both written and spoken English
- has taken part in broadcast media interviews
- has the ability to support local activists and office volunteers in their engagement with the media
- has experience of using new media and an awareness of its role in promoting campaigns
- can work with, motivate and supervise volunteers in an office environment
- has experience of successfully working in teams and is committed to the collective management of CAAT and to collaborative campaigning
- has an understanding of and commitment to equal opportunities
- is self-motivated and can work effectively without supervision, managing heavy workloads and delivering work to successfully meet deadlines
Desirable skills:
- has an appreciation of arms trade issues
- can edit web materials using basic HTML
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