ID: 1560 Christmas Media-PR Assistant
Service: Insight and Influencing
Salary:
- £24,206 FTE per annum (£9,682.40 per annum, pro rata = 14.8 hours per week for 12 weeks)
- Additionally, £480 home-based allowance pro rata per annum
- Secondment position available
Location: Homebased
Hours: Part-time, 14.8 hours per week.
We offer flexible working arrangements - please see below for more details.
Contract: Fixed term contract for 12 weeks
Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.
We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the
importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.
Family Action is seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Temporary Media-PR Assistant to support our festive communications efforts during the Christmas period, which helps us to drive donations so that we can support more families in the future. This role is ideal for someone with a passion for media relations who wants to develop their skills working on campaigns, strong writing skills, and an interest in supporting impactful community work.
Main Responsibilities:
1. Drafting compelling localised press releases that highlight Family Action’s Christmas initiatives and services, and distributing these
2. Collaborate and coordinate with Family Action’s services to gather information on Christmas activities and imagery for media use.
3. Monitor media coverage, log results, and compile coverage reports using our media monitoring system.
4. Support and log media enquiries and contacts
Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):
• Interest in media relations or communications
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and people skills, with the ability to build positive working relationships across teams
Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days plus bank holidays pro rata
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities
We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.
To Apply:
• Click the “Apply Now” link below and fill out our digital application form
• Closing Date: Friday 12th September 2025 at 23:59
For any queries, or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or the potential for flexible working, please email: Stacey.warren@family-action.org.uk
All appointments with Family Action are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
To help remove financial barriers to working with us, we will reimburse travel costs if you are invited to attend an interview in person.
*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.
