PR Manager

(BHF NI) in support of our lifesaving work.

Responsible for creating awareness of BHF NI, you’ll focus on our research funding and its impact to grow our support and income. You’ll promote BHF NI’s work, influencing local partners and shaping the charity’s reputation through media, engagement events, and other communication channels.

As a key member of the BHF NI team, you’ll bring PR expertise to devise and deliver impactful communication strategies, meeting challenging KPIs and demonstrating significant impact which should raise the public’s propensity to give. You’ll also work with the UK-wide media team to devise and deliver PR strategies to promote key brand and awareness campaigns.

Your local expertise will guide the way we influence and use both traditional media, digital channels, and engagement opportunities.

Working arrangements

This is a blended role, where your work will be dual located between your home and our Belfast Office (BT7 2JB).

At the BHF we believe in the power of being together, so our colleagues on blended contracts can expect to spend some time in their office, at least one day each week, on average. The use of our office spaces is driven in part by your role and the activities you need to do. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.

Need more help balancing your work and home life? Talk to us about what flexibility is available at the application or interview stage.

About you

As our ideal candidate, you bring in-depth knowledge of the media landscape in Northern Ireland, and demonstrable experience of finding and developing stories for the media, delivering successful communications campaigns, and working collaboratively in a media team.

With strong experience gained as a journalist or in a communications role (either in-house or agency), you have excellent written and verbal communication and presenting skills, the ability to build trust and relationships, and strong creativity in developing campaigns. You can take complicated information and translate it into consumer-friendly communications.

A confident self-starter who enjoys traveling across Northern Ireland and the UK, you can work under your own initiative as part of a supportive and geographically dispersed team.

About us

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. By funding research across six decades, we’ve helped keep millions of hearts beating and millions of families together. We’re investing in ground-breaking research that will get us closer than ever to a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.

We value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, celebrate diversity, and make inclusion part of what we do every day.

Our Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, Igniting Change, along with our internal EDI group, Kaleidoscope, and a growing number of employee network groups (our Affinity Groups), help us create an environment where all our colleagues and volunteers can succeed.

Salary Details: £35,000 - £38,250 p/a + benefits