More in Common UK are seeking a Communications Assistant to raise our profile, and help to take our communications strategy to new heights. Working closely with the UK team, the post holder will support proactive media outreach, translate our research into clear and compelling content, and help disseminate our findings to journalists, partners and other key audiences.

The Communications Assistant role involves the following indicative duties:

• Help translate More in Common’s research into concise, media-friendly insights, including drafting press releases and supporting colleagues to pitch stories to the press.
• Writing compelling content for our blog, newsletter, podcast and social media channels.
• Helping to promote our Opinion Brief newsletter and podcast, and achieve our target of quadrupling our subscriber list over the coming year.
• Expanding More in Common’s media network; helping to build new relationships with journalists while maintaining and updating our existing mailing list.
• Building our long-term media grid, looking ahead to key upcoming moments in the news cycle and feeding ideas into our weekly polls to ensure we can quickly respond.
• Helping to craft an interesting story from our quantitative and qualitative data, and spot key statistics and trends that will be interesting to the media.
• Helping the team to experiment with paid online advertising to increase More in Common's profile and generate new business.
• Updating content on our website and ensuring it remains up to date and showcases the breadth and depth of our research and insights
• Writing first drafts of quotes for media, op-eds, speeches, and external facing briefings
• Working with the wider team to develop More in Common's communications strategy, and identify a set of key performance indicators by which to evaluate our approach.

The successful candidate will also have opportunities to work with the UK Team across our core areas of research, partnership, client work and events. More in Common UK is a small team with a start-up culture where everyone is expected to execute a range of responsibilities. While the Communications Assistant will be primarily responsible for media and communications, we would like them to play an active role across our work.