Dementia UK
Media and PR Assistant
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Media and PR Assistant
Dementia UK is looking for a Media and PR Assistant to join our Media and PR Team. This newly created role is an exciting opportunity to develop a career in PR, supporting the charity’s press office while helping to raise awareness of our services, clinical expertise and impact through the media.
No two days are the same in this fast-paced, reactive role. You'll support the day-to-day running of the press office, while taking ownership of key administrative processes and helping to coordinate storyteller, influencer and ambassador activity. You will support reactive and proactive media activity, monitor the news and media landscape, coordinate interviews, draft and proofread media materials, and produce media coverage reports. You'll have the opportunity to build your PR skills by supporting with pitching stories to journalists, developing media contacts, and contributing ideas to improve the way the team works.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the day-to-day running of the press office
- Take ownership of key administrative processes
- Help coordinate storyteller, influencer and ambassador activity
- Support reactive and proactive media activity
- Monitor the news and media landscape
- Coordinate interviews
- Draft and proofread media materials
- Produce media coverage reports
- Support pitching stories to journalists
- Develop media contacts
- Contribute ideas to improve team processes
Qualifications and Skills:
- Keen interest in PR and communications
- Relevant experience in communications or marketing
- Understanding of national media, social media platforms, and news consumption habits and trends
- Highly organized and detail-oriented
- Excellent proofreader
- Confidence to spot errors and maintain high-quality work under tight deadlines
- Agile and adaptable
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to prioritize competing demands
- Keen to learn, develop, and contribute new ideas
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Salary: £28,860 - £30,000 per annum
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Location: Hybrid - a minimum of one day in the Aldgate, London office per week
Closing Date: Monday 17th August 2026 at 11.59pm
Annual Leave: 33 days (plus eight bank holidays)
Benefits:
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, and shared parental pay
- Family-friendly policies
- 8% employer pension contribution (Aviva)
- Life assurance cover at 3 x annual salary
- Health cashback plan (Medicash): employee cover plus up to four dependent children
- 24/7 virtual GP access (UK registered), plus access to Best Doctors
- Confidential employee assistance programme (Medicash)
- Access to a wellbeing app
- Flexible working options including hybrid working, flexible working patterns such as part-time, compressed hours, and more
- Learning and development opportunities including bespoke training and access to LinkedIn Learning
- Commitment to employee health and wellbeing. We have a Menopause Friendly accreditation and are a Disability Confident employer
Our Culture:
In addition to offering a competitive salary and a generous benefits package, we truly value our people. It’s important for us to create a workplace culture that looks after our people to support them in achieving their full potential. You will become part of a diverse and dedicated team who are supported to use and develop their skills. We recognise and value the key role you will play in delivering our strategic plans for the benefit of those living with dementia.
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Our staff have a voice. Representatives from different roles and levels across the organisation lead and positively contribute to our working groups around health and wellbeing, menopause, and equity, diversity and inclusion.
Our supportive and nurturing workplace culture has recently earned us recognition as the Sunday Times Best Place to Work in the non-profit and charities sector 2025 (big organisation).
Dementia UK is proud to welcome everyone. We aim for a truly inclusive culture with talented, diverse teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. We celebrate differences and individuality and encourage everyone to feel comfortable being themselves at work.
Dementia UK is a Disability Confident employer. If you would like support to make an application, contact recruitment@dementiauk.org.
By applying to join Dementia UK, you acknowledge that in the event you are successful for the role, any offer and your ongoing employment will be conditional on you having or obtaining the right to work in the UK.
*Please note that any decision on flexible working is based on business needs
We expect this role to attract high interest and may close it before the advertised closing date. To avoid disappointment, we recommend submitting an application at your earliest opportunity.
When you apply for a job at Dementia UK, we will collect certain information about you to process your application and assess your suitability for the role. Further details can be found in our privacy notice.
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