• Working with the Bradford 2025 Audiences (Press, Digital, Marketing, Design, Ticketing) team to profile the organisation’s impact on the region.
• Securing local and national media coverage for selected areas of Bradford 2025’s activities.
• Acting as a point of contact for partners and stakeholders on selected areas of Bradford 2025’s activities.
• Writing and preparing clear and effective PR materials including press releases, briefing documents, press-packs and responses to media enquiries.
• Help to organise media and PR activities including press launches, interviews, photo-calls, and other on-the ground press activity.
• Briefing spokespeople across programmes of work and overseeing media interviews. Working with Bradford 2025 press team, evaluation team and other departments as necessary to identify and create case studies that exemplify the Story of Change for media stories and Bradford 2025 preliminary evaluation.

This role will include working across the following areas of Bradford 2025’s activities:

• BD: Walls
• PLAY
• Our Patch
• Creative Health and Mental Health programmes
• Volunteering
• Cultural Learning

• Demonstrable experience of securing national and local press coverage.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in writing press releases, briefing notes and case studies.
• Good knowledge of local and regional media landscape.
• Comfortable with the media on telephone and in person, and communicating with a range of internal and external contacts and organisations.
• Organised, self-motivated and able to work across a range of events simultaneously, managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Strong storytelling skills.

Please email a CV, a short proposal of how you would deliver this work, and between 5 and 10 links to examples of where you have secured national and local media coverage for campaigns to [email protected]

Please do not apply unless you meet all of the job criteria.

Closing date: 9am on 27 October.

We would like the right candidate to start as soon as possible.

If you would like to arrange an informal call to discuss the role, please contact [email protected]