The Conservative Environment Network (CEN) is the home for conservatives who support responsible environmental leadership. We are looking for an experienced and strategic communications professional to help us make the case for conservative environmentalism and promote CEN’s campaigns in the media.
This role provides a great opportunity to campaign for market-led environmental action, develop a set of environmental narratives that resonate with conservatives, and showcase the environmental campaigning of CEN’s broad network.
The successful candidate will be empowered to innovate and shape CEN’s communications and campaigns strategy to grow our reach and impact, leading our communications and campaigns team. They will also have significant freedom day-to-day to seek out and exploit media opportunities to promote conservative environmentalism.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain an extensive network of journalists, comment editors, and broadcasters, especially those in the centre-right media;
- Generate and land stories in the media about the work of CEN, place reactive quotes, and secure broadcast media opportunities;
- Draft, review, and place pro-environment op-eds in the centre-right media;
- Brief CEN team members ahead of media appearances;
- Provide communications training and advice to the CEN team and support their development as commentators in the media and on social media;
- Represent CEN in the media and on social media;
- Develop and deliver CEN’s communications and campaigns strategy, engaging our network in promoting our policy work and producing key narratives;
- Oversee CEN’s newsletter, website, councillor magazine, and social media channels;
- Lead CEN’s campaigns and communications team, including line management of the Senior Campaigns Manager and the Digital Communications Manager.
Required:
- Significant experience in a communications and/or campaigning role;
- A strong network of UK political and environmental journalists;
- Excellent political judgement and strategic thinking;
- Strong attention to detail and ability to produce compelling and concise written output;
- Deep belief in CEN’s core mission and values and a desire to advance environmentalism on the UK right-of-centre.