- Professional
- Oficina en Birmingham
What can we offer you?
- Make your mark early on: You’ll be helping to deliver PR strategies for all brands across the Ampa Group- getting hands-on experience from day one and seeing the impact of your work across a variety of campaigns. Every day brings something different!
- Agency feel, without the timesheets: We treat our brands and stakeholders like clients- so if you’re coming from an agency, you’ll feel right at home. The difference? You’re not the supplier here- you are the client.
- People-first culture: You’ll work closely with people from all corners of the business—building great relationships and learning a lot along the way.
- Flexible working, real support: We believe in balancing autonomy with collaboration. Our hybrid, empowered working, approach means you’ll have the flexibility to do your best work in a way that works for you.
The role:
We’re looking for a PR Assistant or Executive, on a 15 month fixed-term basis, to join our external communications team and support PR activity across the Ampa Group- covering our existing brands and any new ones that may join our House of BrandsTM in the future. We are also open to considering candidates on a part-time basis.
This is a great opportunity for someone who’s keen to learn and happy to take direction, but who also brings their own ideas to the table. You’ll be writing press releases, thought leadership pieces, and media comments that help raise the profile of our brands and the brilliant people behind them.
You’ll need to be comfortable working both independently and as part of a wider team on bigger campaigns. We’re after someone who’s proactive, creative, and always looking for ways to improve what we do. Someone who gets why it’s important to measure results—and who can take complex or technical topics and turn them into clear, engaging content that earns coverage.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with wider marketing team on campaign activity crossing PR, content, events, marketing and internal communications
- Research, write and issue press releases, thought leadership articles and comment pieces, with support
- Proactively monitor relevant breaking news stories for comment opportunities
- Support with data analysis and data gathering for PR activity
- Maintain and update media lists
- Monitor media coverage and keep clippings log up to date
- Circulate coverage with supporting social media posts to fee earning groups across the group
- Write case studies for brand websites
- Support in the production of content for back link strategy
- Be an advocate for PR and wider marketing team
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- At least one year’s experience working in a PR agency or in-house PR role
- Keen eye for a news hook and ability to ask the right questions to draw out a story
- Experienced in media liaison including pitching press releases, thought leadership and rapid-response comments
- Experienced in managing media lists and press release distribution (specific experience with Cision – desired)
- Experienced in PR reporting and measuring PR success
- Excellent written communication across a range of platforms including press, marketing collateral, SEO, social media
- Experienced in data analysis and data gathering for PR activity, such as FOIs and surveys
- Experience working in professional services sector (desired)
- Experience in developing social media posts and content
- A genuine passion for PR
- Comfortable receiving constructive feedback
- Approachable and confident working and communicating with senior stakeholders
- Proactive – finding the stories within our business
- Resilience, where you are comfortable working on multiple projects within a fast paced, fast changing working environment
- Confident and positive perspective that aligns to our ambitions and team values
