Firefly New Media
Community Outreach Lead (Local News)
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We're Revolutionising Local News
Firefly runs more than 130 local magazines on our own platform, growing fast, and the people of each town write the news themselves: residents, schools, clubs, businesses, councils. We're hiring the person who leads that on the ground across the North East, Cumbria, the North West and the West Midlands. You'll run a small, sharp team, open doors in every town, and make the results visible every week. You'll work directly with the founder and CEO and alongside our partnerships and editorial leads: a senior role with real room to grow.
Where
Home-based, travelling across four regions. Travel and expenses paid, mileage at 45p a mile.
Hours
About 20 days a month, flexible, including some evenings and weekends for events, agreed in advance.
Pay
£28,000 to £34,000 a year, depending on your experience and what you bring. That's about £2,330 to £2,830 a month for the length of the contract, plus 28 days' holiday a year pro rata (including bank holidays) and a workplace pension.
Contract
Fixed-term employed, 1 November 2026 to 19 March 2027 (start date by agreement).
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A DBS check at the level the role qualifies for, arranged and paid by us.
What You'll Do
Lead two community outreach officers and work with our editors day to day
- Sit at the top table with the founder and CEO, our partnerships managers and editorial leads, and help shape where we go next
- Open doors: schools, clubs, councils, charities and businesses, and get them publishing
- Plan and run the sessions and events that turn a town into contributors
- Front the team's updates, team calls and social posts: the face of local news in our regions
- Keep the team organised and the numbers moving
You
Have led people, projects or programmes and can show what happened
- Are organised and confident with anyone, from a head teacher to a council leader
- Want to be part of reinventing local media, not maintaining it
- Ideally hold a driving licence and have access to a vehicle; tell us if you would travel another way
How to Apply
Email jobs@fireflynewmedia.com with the subject "Application: Community Outreach Lead", your CV and a one-page note on why this role and one thing you've done that proves you can. Tell us where you saw this advert. Optional: a one-minute phone video introducing yourself; we shortlist from your CV and note alone and only watch videos after shortlisting. Full details: fireflynewmedia.com/jobs
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Closes Wednesday 21 October 2026. We review applications as they arrive and may interview before then, so apply early. We reply to everyone within a week of the closing date.
Offers are conditional on references, right-to-work checks and, where the role needs one, a DBS check. We recruit on skills and potential. Age, background and route into work do not matter to us. Firefly welcomes applications from everyone, especially people from communities under-represented in local news. If you need any adjustments to apply or interview, tell us. You must have the right to work in the UK; we are unable to sponsor visas. We keep applications for nine months after the closing date, then delete them, unless you ask us to keep yours for future roles. Full notice: fireflynewmedia.com/jobs/privacy.
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