Public Affairs & Media Manager

Working arrangements: Remote working, permanent, regular or ad hoc (with frequent travel to London if not London-based) Please note that we also have approximately 3-4 team retreats per year which could be located anywhere nationally. At this pivotal time for 38 Degrees, an exciting opportunity has arisen to manage our Public Affairs & Media offering. We're looking for an effective communicator, who is great at collaborating and has a track record of delivering significant media and public affairs campaign results. You'll bring to life and manage the implementation of 38 Degrees' media and public affairs strategy, in service of 38 Degrees' mission: to make our country fairer, more respectful and sustainable. As we adjust to a shift in our political environment, this brand new role will relentlessly and powerfully amplify 38 Degrees campaigns and the voices of our supporters to the general public, the media and decision makers in the UK. You'll manage our Public Affairs & Media team, including a new Public Affairs & Media officer role - working together, and with colleagues across the campaigns team and beyond, to execute our Public Affairs & Media strategy and deliver impressive results. Whilst this is a Manager role, it's also a very hands on role - you'll be as at home picking up the phone to regional TV to discuss local supporters whose experiences could make perfect case studies for the big story of the day, and helping those people tell their story, as you are meeting with MPs and their staff to use our Campaigns By You platform to run campaigns on local issues in their constituencies. You'll relish a newsroom atmosphere and will be happy that no two days at 38 Degrees are the same, as you focus on amplifying campaigns and making a difference which helps change lives, little by little., 27 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays); Office closure between Christmas and New year; 9-day fortnight (office closed every other Friday); 4pm closure on the alternate Friday; Flexibility to work 90 days overseas per tax year (30 day maximum per travel in any location as per approval process); One month paid sabbatical leave after 5 years of service; Employer pension contribution; 24 hour employee assistance programme; Enhanced family leave policies; Cycle to work scheme; Employer paid annual flu vaccination; Rental deposit loan; Contribution to eye tests/glasses; Learning and development budget. Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion We're especially keen to hear from people who'll bring lived experience of the issues we work on and who'll make our team more diverse as a result. So if you're Black, Asian or from any other minority ethnic group, if you're disabled, LGBTQIA+, or if you're from a working class home, your application will be especially welcome. And thanks to our flexible home working approach and network of offices, we have a staff team that is increasingly based across the UK. We're keen to continue diversifying geographically, so that we're rooted in our supporters' communities. To make sure that we are able to reach our goal of a diverse team we have equal opportunities monitoring requirements. Your application will not be complete without the equal opportunities monitoring form. 38 Degrees is committed to inclusive working practices, so during the application process we commit to:

• Paying for childcare whilst you're at 38 Degrees interviews or tasks
• Paying for your travel costs to the office and back - and for overnight accommodation if you're travelling from a long distance for an interview although at present the majority of interviews are held online using zoom.
• Making any reasonable adjustments - for example ensuring we have a BSL interpreters organised in advance if you'd need one
• If there anything else you're concerned about or think we could provide, please let us know.
To be successful in your application you must meet the essential requirements for this role and answer the questions below which are part of the selection criteria. Without completion of this task your application cannot be considered. The successful candidate must have the right to work in the UK at the time of appointment. Please see our Job Applicant Privacy Notice here: https://home.38degrees.org.uk/job-applicant-privacy-notice/ You can apply for this role by emailing your CV and the answers to the questions below (of no more than 2 pages) to recruitment@38degrees.org.uk Application Questions (max. word count: 2000 words across all questions) 1. Tell us a campaign you have been part of developing a media or public affairs strategy for, including what you were trying to achieve, how you brought team members together to action the plan, and what results you achieved. 2. What challenges and opportunities do you think the recent change in government might have presented to 38 Degrees in the context of our public affairs and media work? 3. 38 Degrees is a digital first, people-powered campaigning organisation where millions of people do something small to add up to bigger political and corporate change. How do you think we can most effectively use our supporters in our media and public affairs work, to win campaigns that align with our vision for the country?

We're looking for someone who can effectively grasp the 38 Degrees approach to public affairs, which combines pressure and persuasion - and who is confident in pursuing both. You will be able to show you can use both, in the right circumstances: from liaising with Metro Mayors on possible partnership campaigns, to commissioning and landing coverage of snap polling that demonstrates public opinion on government plans. The person recruited will need to be a brilliant communicator, and be passionate about opening up democracy and making political and corporate change accessible to all. You'll be a great fit for this role if you have excellent political and news judgement - you know what can make a story and what impact that story can have on decision makers. You'll be extremely comfortable speaking to politicians and their teams, along with journalists, other communications teams in partner organisations, and 38 Degrees supporters who act as case studies in our campaigns. You may already have extensive journalist or political networks and relationships, and you'll have definitely had results. We're looking for a person who knows the political and news agenda each day, and can help set it too. You'll be equipped with the skills to develop a new team, with the skills and experience to manage more junior members of staff, setting clear, inspiring and exciting shared goals. To succeed in this role, you'll need to be a positive, practical person adept at building cross-team relationships, bringing people with you to solve problems in a collaborative way. We're looking for someone who understands the need for us to demonstrate a strategic approach, balancing long term planning and objectives with agility and flexibility. And while you'll have a strategy to work to, your priorities could change at a moment's notice. If this sounds appealing, our fast-paced and exciting role could be for you.

38 Degrees is one of the UK's biggest campaigning communities, involving over a million supporters who campaign to make the UK a better place. We're united by a shared vision to create a fairer and more respectful UK and a more sustainable world. In the space of a week, millions of supporters could be campaigning on anything from protecting our NHS and stopping cuts to Universal Credit, to saving local green spaces and protecting our democracy. 38 Degrees is fiercely independent. We are primarily funded by small donations from hundreds of thousands of members of the public from all over the UK. This independence means we never have to hold ourselves back from taking on those with power and can truly listen to our supporters. Why you'll want to work here The 38 Degrees culture is honest, kind, supportive, courageous, and respectful. We move fast, and frequently change plans to respond to events. We work hard but we also have fun.