Are you passionate about engaging and effective ways of communicating? Do you enjoy wordsmithing and have a strong interest in the UK creative industries? Are you motivated to keep people in the loop and able to spot opportunities? If so, we may have the perfect role for you as Junior Communications Executive at the Advertising Association, where you will be part of a busy in-house communications team in a high-profile organisation.

The Role

The Junior Communications Executive will support all aspects of our communications and strategy work. You will have input on a huge variety of projects, ranging from our responses to important government policies, to supporting the latest creative initiatives from top media and advertising agencies. Your role will have a key part to play in communicating our climate action agenda and helping to build inclusion and trust in advertising.

What Are We Looking For In This Role?

• Great writing and communication skills
• Ability to take the initiative and be proactive in coming up with creative communications ideas
• A willingness to ‘get stuck in’ and multi-task across teams and workstreams

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Writing and updating communications materials, including weekly newsletters, press releases, and drafting content for our publications
• Producing and scheduling content for the AA’s social media channels, particularly LinkedIn, and our website
• Updating the AA website
• Monitoring the issues affecting the UK advertising industry, specifically through media monitoring tools such as Meltwater
• Helping to produce presentations for the AA’s team to use across a range of meetings with key stakeholders
• Tracking and reporting of communications results including the association’s media coverage and social analytics
• Updating and tracking the AA’s contacts database across media and member contacts
• Liaising across multiple teams to ensure daily updates and processes are managed for the smooth-running of our regular communication materials.

 Skills Required:

• Excellent proven written skills, with the ability to produce high quality, accurate and engaging communications materials
• Experience of using social media channels, with a specific focus on LinkedIn and Instagram
• Strong verbal skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and with confidence to colleagues
• Either a relevant degree, or college qualification (ideally within a field related to advertising, marketing, communications, politics or English) or suitable work experience
• Self-motivated and eager to learn

The Ideal Candidate Will Also Have: 

• Experience of working in a B2B, journalism, politics, media or creative communications environment (such as through work placements internships and/or a sandwich year at University)
• Design skills and ability to produce social media assets and lay out imagery and text in a clear, professional style across presentations
• Experience of WordPress and newsletter campaign software such as Zoho or Mailchimp
• Knowledge of applications such as Canva or Adobe Photoshop
• Interest in and some understanding of the UK advertising industry and politics across advertisers, agencies, media owners and tech companies

How To Apply

To apply for this role, please click the button below and complete the application form. Please take your time answering the application questions fully, and ensure you include a cover letter (in your own words, not AI*) explaining ‘what your favourite advert is and why’ (one side maximum). Your application answers and cover letter will be used to assess your writing skills, and incomplete applications will be automatically rejected.

*Think of using AI in your application? Read this first – we understand the benefits of AI (you can even read about our AI taskforce here). However, we want to know about the real you, so please ensure your cover letter and application questions are your own thoughts and tell us about you personally.

Application deadline – Monday 2^nd December at 9am. 

*We are a hybrid working company – requiring employees to work in our Central London office circa 3 days a week. Given the nature of the role, flexibility on working days and times may be needed to support member meetings and events.

Inclusion at the AA

At the Advertising Association, in addition to the support we give to our members and the industry as a whole, we are on our own journey to make our organisation a more welcoming and inclusive place to work, where everyone can succeed. We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and value the advantages diverse perspectives bring to our work. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of their age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, physical or mental ability. If you have any access needs related to your application that you wish to discuss with us, please email hrsupport@adassoc.org.uk and we will do our best to help.