Job Title: Media Communications Manager
The Consumer, Competition and Regulatory Authority (CCPC) is seeking to recruit a highly experienced and talented Media Communications Manager to work in our Corporate Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Unit.
This team is responsible for delivering corporate communications for CCPC enforcement, advocacy, and research activities; media queries; public affairs, including preparations for media interviews and appearances at Oireachtas committees; stakeholder engagement; event management; internal communications; and the delivery of regular consumer information and personal finance public awareness campaigns.
Key Responsibilities:
* Review complex and technical material and distil it into concise, easily understood content suitable for media, business, political, and public stakeholders.
* Create a range of compelling communications outputs, including press releases, stakeholder communications, briefing documents, executive summaries, and website news stories.
* Draft timely, accurate, and approved responses to media queries, ensuring advocacy and consumer awareness messaging is included where appropriate.
* Support the planning and implementation of a calendar of proactive, non-paid PR activity on consumer rights topics to complement paid consumer awareness campaigns and amplify priority CCPC messages for consumers and build the CCPC profile.
* Develop media and communications strategies and campaigns to communicate organisational outputs for non-paid media partnerships, including consumer awareness, mergers, and enforcement activities.
* Monitor the media environment and support media relations activities, including identifying media opportunities, developing relationships with journalists, and selling into national and regional media.
Requirements:
* Minimum of four years' relevant experience in public relations and media communications, either in-house or agency, with existing connections in national and/or regional media.
* Excellent copy writing and storytelling skills with the ability to cut through complexity to find the big picture story and translate complex concepts into easy-to-understand content.
* Proven ability to write succinct, corporate and consumer press releases at pace.
* A good understanding of national and regional press scheduling.
* Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritise requests from multiple stakeholders, identifying what is urgent and responding accordingly.