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. 

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 internal communications, keeping colleagues informed of business updates and core messaging, and deliver regular internal updates including a bi-weekly newsletter, all-hands calls and ad hoc Town Halls.
• Line-manage a Junior Communications Manager, leading by example, providing day-to-day support and direction.

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