Closing date: 25th October 2024
Looking to kickstart your communications career with hands-on experience at a leading consultancy? This graduate trainee programme offers the perfect blend of media, politics, and policy work to fuel your professional growth.
Luther Pendragon is one of the UK's leading independent communications consultancies. We work with some of the largest and best-known corporations, trade associations, public sector bodies, NGOs, and government departments in the UK, as well as a range of smaller organisations with big ambitions.
Everybody on our team gets involved across our service offering, providing strategic communications advice, public affairs, media relations, training and coaching, reputation and crisis management, thought leadership, stakeholder engagement, and design services for our clients.
Our graduate trainee programme offers an initial three months' experience working across our client mix as well as supporting with the company's new business and marketing activity. If you have excellent communication skills, are passionate about media and politics, thrive when involved in multiple projects at once, and want to do work that delivers policy change and social impact, then we would love to hear from you. The programme is ideal for a candidate that has already begun their early career in communications and wishes to gain additional experience.
What you will do
The selected candidate's day-to-day activities are likely to include:
- Conducting internet research;
- Monitoring media coverage;
- Drafting letters, policy briefings, press releases, and meeting notes;
- Compiling media lists; and
- Liaising with clients, journalists, politicians' offices, and event organisers.
What you will bring
We are looking for somebody who can demonstrate the following skills, competencies and characteristics:
- Strong interpersonal and presentation skills;
- Meticulous approach to research and writing, with great attention to detail;
- Strong time management skills and is able to prioritise work effectively;
- Interested in and understands the UK media environment;
- Interested in and understands how the UK political system works and the current policy landscape;
- Interested in and understands the world of business and economics;
- Strong self-motivation and initiative;
- Passion and enthusiasm;
- Collaborative and a team player; and
- Relevant undergraduate degree, preferably 2.1 or above.
Benefits
Luther offers a range of benefits to staff, including a structured training and development programme, one-to-one mentoring, and the option for hybrid working. We value diversity of experience so we welcome interest from people from different backgrounds.
We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.
Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.