About the role

  • Director-level media role focused on energy and climate policy in a leading consultancy. Shape narratives and advise clients within a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

  • Shape clear and credible narratives on complex energy and climate issues, ensuring they are both intellectually robust and able to land with external audiences
  • Translate detailed and often technical policy into concise, accessible and persuasive outputs across a range of formats
  • Advise clients on media strategy and political positioning, drawing on a strong understanding of how media, politics and policymaking interact in practice
  • Lead major client accounts with a high degree of independence, maintaining quality while managing delivery and expectations
  • Build trusted client relationships and oversee programmes of work from initial scoping through to delivery, ensuring work is both impactful and commercially sound
  • Manage and support teams to deliver consistently strong outputs, drawing effectively on expertise from across the firm
  • Contribute to winning new work, including through proposal development and by identifying opportunities with existing and prospective clients
  • Develop the best journalist network in the UK energy sector
  • Support the development of the practice and the wider firm, particularly in strengthening our media and communications offer

Requirements

  • A senior media professional with strong judgement and established credibility
  • Extensive experience in journalism, senior press roles or media consultancy
  • A clear and sustained interest in energy, climate or environmental policy
  • A precise and confident writer, able to make complex issues clear without oversimplifying
  • Well connected in media and news outlets with the ability to draw upon those networks in meaningful and strategic ways
  • Commercially aware, with experience of leading client work and managing competing priorities
  • Collaborative and self-aware, with the ability to operate independently while knowing when to draw on others

Benefits

  • 25 days annual leave
  • 5% pension contribution
  • private healthcare
  • profit share (bonus) scheme

Job title

Director – Media, Energy & Climate

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

£80,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

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