This is an opportunity for an experienced media professional to own techUK’s voice in the national conversation on technology and policy, running a busy press office and shaping how the UK’s most contested tech issues are argued in public.

This is a role at the heart of the UK's technology and policy landscape, creating the strategic messages that land with the media and working on key issues that within our sector that regularly create headlines in broadcast and national media. As Head of Media, you will lead techUK's response to fast-moving Government announcements, regulatory developments and industry news, often working to tight timescales on behalf of our more than 1,200 members. Never a quiet day - this can range from working on rapid response commentary on data centres, AI regulation or defence procurement to proactive outreach around the use of robotics in healthcare and our members views on international policy and trade. Responsible for our reputation management, you will need to bring clarity to complex issues, ensuring techUK's positions are communicated clearly to our audiences so we remain a relevant, credible and influential trade association.

You will sit inside techUK's operation rather than alongside it. You will be in the room as our positions are developed, brief the Senior Leadership Team before broadcast or interviews, and join meetings with Government and regulators alongside our policy leads. 

Key Responsibilities

• Own techUK's press office, responding to often technical and time-sensitive media enquiries across the technology policy landscape.
• Set and deliver techUK’s proactive communications, identifying news opportunities that raise techUK's profile and support the wider technology sector.
• Run techUK’s spokespeople operation: developing briefings, delivering media training sessions, sitting in on interviews and accompanying colleagues to in-person interviews where appropriate.
• Lead issues and crisis communications, preparing forward-thinking crisis comms strategies, statements and briefing.
• Build relationships with national, broadcast and trade journalists, and write press releases, briefings, and statements.
• Support the media elements of our report launches, events outreach and other proactive communications.

A full version of the job role can be found on our website linked below.