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About the Role
We are seeking a Communications Assistant to raise More in Common’s profile and elevate our communications strategy. This role involves supporting proactive media outreach, translating research into compelling content, and disseminating findings to key audiences.
Responsibilities
- Translate research into concise, media-friendly insights, including drafting press releases and pitching stories.
- Write compelling content for blog, newsletter, podcast, and social media channels.
- Promote the Opinion Brief newsletter and podcast to achieve subscriber growth targets.
- Expand the media network by building new journalist relationships and maintaining mailing lists.
- Build a long-term media grid, anticipating news cycle moments and feeding ideas into weekly polls for rapid response.
- Craft compelling stories from quantitative and qualitative data, identifying key statistics and trends for media interest.
- Experiment with paid online advertising to increase profile and generate new business.
- Update website content to showcase research and insights.
- Write first drafts of quotes for media, op-eds, speeches, and external briefings.
- Collaborate with the team to develop communications strategy and identify key performance indicators.
- Play an active role across core research, partnership, client work, and events, contributing to a start-up culture environment.
Requirements
- A strong interest in media and communications.
- Strong attention to detail, even when working at a fast pace.
- Diligence in fact-checking and ensuring data accuracy.
- Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to write clear, compelling content for different audiences.
- Familiarity with analyzing data and transforming it into compelling stories.
- A can-do attitude, with the ability to work both responsively and proactively at pace.
- A keen interest in and genuine enthusiasm for UK politics and public opinion.
- The ability to manage and prioritize multiple competing demands from different people and projects.
- A CV.
- A short cover letter (max. one page).
- A separate Word document with a short piece (around 200 words) predicting UK politics in 2027 and explaining its significance.
Skills
- Media outreach
- Content creation
- Data analysis
- Writing
- Social media management
- Public relations
- Journalism
- Marketing
- Social research methods
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Open to candidates with great potential but limited experience
- Experience in PR, journalism, media, social media or marketing is desirable
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- 25 days holiday
- Private health insurance
- Pension
About the Company
- More in Common is a research agency working across the US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Brazil and Poland to tackle polarization and division.
- More in Common leads and supports initiatives to build more united, inclusive, and resilient societies.
- Our mission is to understand the forces driving us apart, help societies find common ground and bring people together to tackle shared challenges.
- In the UK, our work is described as part consultancy and part think tank, providing research services including polling, evidence reviews, audience strategy, and communications strategy.
- More in Common is a member of the British Polling Council.
- Our work is informed by a unique values-based segmentation of the British public.
- Our insights help leaders in government, media, business, and civil society develop better strategies and communications.
- We have published thought leadership on topics including assisted dying, immigration, trans and gender identity, and the conflict in Israel and Palestine.
- Our political research helps policymakers understand the fragmentation of politics.
- Our work is regularly covered in the British press and media, with partnerships with broadcasters and newspapers.
- In the 2024 General Election, we were among Britain’s most accurate pollsters.
- We have supported partners like the BBC, British Library, National Trust, government, civil society, and the National Farmers Union.
- Exciting projects in the pipeline include understanding public attitudes to climate change, exploring public opinion on immigration, embedding our new Seven Segments, and navigating declining trust in institutions.
Equal Opportunity
- We particularly encourage applications from underrepresented and minority communities.
- More in Common wants to meet the aims and commitments set out in our equality policy, including not discriminating under the Equality Act 2010.
- We will include voluntary and anonymous questions to understand the diversity of job applicants, which will be kept confidential and not linked to applications.