Media Manager

Energy is making headlines like never before, and, at Ofgem, we're right at the centre of the story. We're looking for a Media Manager to join our busy press office, working on major stories that regularly lead the national news agenda.

Ofgem is Great Britain's independent energy regulator. We're at the forefront of change across the energy sector, driving toward Net Zero whilst protecting energy consumers, especially vulnerable people.

This is a permanent opportunity to build your media career in an environment where no two days are the same. Energy has never been more prominent in the news, giving you the chance to work on high-profile stories and issues that matter to households, businesses and communities across the country.

You'll join a friendly, practical team who'll support you as you take the next step in your career. Growing your media skills and networks, you'll have the chance to work closely with experienced communications professionals and gain fantastic exposure to journalists, senior colleagues and some of the biggest stories on the news agenda.

What's more, you'll turn complex energy issues into clear, engaging communications, and will be involved in everything from responding to fast-moving media enquiries to preparing spokespeople and advising colleagues on high-profile issues. This is a great opening to further develop your press office experience whilst having the freedom to take a different approach to a story when it needs it.

We're looking for someone with press office experience, excellent written and verbal communication skills and fantastic attention to detail. You'll be confident communicating with journalists and senior colleagues, able to turn complex information into engaging content and comfortable prioritising a varied workload when deadlines are tight. The willingness to get stuck in and take part in our out-of-hours media rota, including evenings and weekends, will also be key.

In return, you'll be given the support to grow your expertise and confidence, sharpen your media instincts and take on bigger challenges as your experience develops. Add in a fantastic benefits package and a team that genuinely wants to see you succeed, and you'll have everything you need to take your communications career forward.

We have a critical purpose to protect consumers and support the transition to Net Zero. Join us and help tell the stories behind some of the biggest issues shaping the future of energy.

Read on and find out more.

Key Responsibilities:

• Get to grips with key policy areas and their impact on consumers and net zero
• Write press releases, briefing papers and Q&As.
• Provide effective communications handling advice to policy colleagues especially over critical and high profile issues.
• Respond to media enquiries and interview requests effectively and quickly, using news judgement to know when the story is moving on, where it’s going and whether to stick to the line or develop the narrative.
• Media monitoring, delivering regular and insightful updates to colleagues on relevant developments from media and political stakeholders.
• Prepare spokespeople for interview, with the support of managers
• Take part in an out of hours media on-call rota at evenings and weekends.

Key Outputs and Deliverables

• Clear, concise, consumer-focused lines to take and statements that reflect the external mood.
• Represent the press team in a positive manner Well written press releases, bylined articles and blogs.
• Comprehensive Q&A.
• Impactful communications strategies and plans that address the latest media and political developments.
• Regular and insightful updates to colleagues on relevant external developments.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

When you press the ‘Apply now’ button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), your career history and qualifications.

You will then be asked to provide a 500 word ‘personal statement’ evidencing how you meet the essential and desirable skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the criteria listed in the role profile.

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. You must ensure that any evidence submitted as part of your application or used during interview, including your CV and any statements or examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Ofgem takes any incidences of cheating very seriously. Please ensure all examples provided are of your own experience. Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant applications will be withdrawn from the process. Please note that plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

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