Campaigns executive - Riot Communications

Deadline for applications: 20th December 2024

Salary: £25k-£27k, dependent on experience

Hours: Full time 9.30am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday. We offer flexible working, with staff welcome to work from home three days a week

Location: Shoreditch, London

Holiday: 25 days per year, increasing by one day per year until reaching the full entitlement of 30 days, plus a day off for your birthday

Interviews: Will take place during mid-January 2025

We’re on the hunt for a campaigns executive with an ambition to progress their career in communications and a passion for all things arts, culture and entertainment.

Riot works with leading cultural institutions such as Oscar-winning animation studio Aardman, the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, the London Review of Books, the newly established Nero Book Awards, and the Science Museum Group, as well as ground-breaking writers and creatives including Matt Haig and Elena Favilli, and entertainment brands such as Moomin Characters and Winnie-the-Pooh. 

Our core values are thoughtfulness, passion, collaboration and disruption, and they drive everything we do: from the clients we choose to work with, to how we deliver our work and who we hire.

Riot is part of the Splendid Collective, a network of ambitious, values-led agencies that also includes Splendid Communications, Kingdom Collective and DIY Creative. The Collective is based at our offices in east London and offers a vibrant community with regular socials, free breakfast daily and Thursday lunches twice a month, and a dog-friendly space. 

About the role

• As part of the Riot team, you will support the campaigns team in planning and delivering high-quality, creative PR campaigns for our exciting roster of clients, encompassing media relations, events and festivals, brokering partnerships, influencer work, and much more.
• As well as implementing social media campaigns for clients, you will assist with keeping Riot's own digital channels up to date through content plans and asset creation.
• You will manage agency processes, systems and procedures, including project and time management tools, effectively and efficiently to ensure campaigns are resourced properly and delivered on budget. 
• You will work directly with some of the best creatives in the world! In turn, you will get to work within a team of highly-skilled colleagues and have the opportunity and responsibility to deliver projects, both as part of a team and independently, as appropriate. 
• You will receive on-the-job training and a one-to-one line manager to support your personal training and career development. 

You will be passionate, curious and solutions-oriented with exceptional attention to detail. You will be a great communicator in all mediums. 

Knowledge, skills and experience

Essential

• Foundational media relations and copywriting skills 
• Foundational social media management
• A passion for culture and entertainment 
• Highly motivated, passionate & curious
• Solutions-oriented
• Reliable & adaptable
• Excellent attention to detail
• Good organisational & multi-tasking skills
• Efficiency in managing tasks and meeting deadlines
• Excellent command of written and oral English 
• Proficiency in Microsoft packages and Dropbox

If we can help you by making any adjustments to our application process, please do let us know when you apply.

The employer reserves the right to close the listing and stop accepting applications sooner than the original deadline. Therefore we strongly recommend applying at the earliest opportunity.

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.

Riot is proud to have been awarded The Blueprint diversity mark and is committed to employing a diverse workforce. You can read more about our D&I policy here and see our November 2024 diversity data update here.