PR & Admin Assistant

The role is providing admin and some basic PR support including the following; monitoring media coverage and liaising with our press cuttings agency, creating press cuttings and monthly cuttings books and media coverage reports for our clients, uploading content on our website and posting and picking up content on our social media platforms, creation of case studies for our most successful events and PR activities, making travel arrangements and creating the programme and press profile documents for press trips, assisting with sending samples out to press from our warehouse, helping to organise wine tasting events by sending out invitations on mailchimp, creating online registration on jotform, registration lists, helping with design of invites on Canva, name badges, event materials and helping to run the event if you live within easy access to London. Updating and adding contacts to our press list and trade database which will involve data entry, online research and emailing and some cold calling.

You will need to be a native English speaker and have excellent communication skills, a personable and professional email and phone manner, a high level of attention to detail, efficiency, accuracy and organisation, a willingness to learn and be able to quickly grasp new activities with a can-do approach, work independently, be flexible and able to turn things around quickly and work to a deadline. Experience of working in PR and comms and knowledge of the media would be very useful but not essential as training will be given.

You will need to have excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office, social media especially instagram, mail chimp, jotform, word press websites and canva.

You will be working for a small, busy, friendly PR agency specialising in the wine industry.

I am looking for ongoing support so please only get in touch if you are available and looking for ongoing freelance work. I'm happy for you to work remotely but being able to occasionally come to the office in London and to help run events would be ideal. The amount of work will vary each week but on average will be about a 2 days/week spread over the week. It would be ideal for someone with small children who needs to fit work around childcare.