Media Lead

Salary: Starting from £50,000 per annum Contract: Full time (35 hours per week). Fixed term contract for 18 months. Location: We are London based (Farringdon). Our staff have the option to work 2 days per week from home. Closing: 09:30am (BST), Monday 7th September 2026. The Nuffield Foundation is an independent charitable trust working to improve social wellbeing through research and innovation. We''re looking for an ambitious media professional with an exceptional sense of what journalists are looking for. Someone with strong media instincts, brilliant contacts and the ideas, energy and experience to get important issues and commentary onto the national agenda. This is a highly proactive and autonomous role. You''ll lead our media work, finding and creating opportunities to bring the Foundation''s research, expertise and people to the attention of relevant journalists and media outlets. You''ll spot the hook in a piece of research, connect it to what''s happening in the world and turn it into a pitch that makes a journalist want to respond. You''ll bring and build trusted relationships with journalists and editors across national, specialist, broadcast and digital media, while constantly looking for new ways to get our work heard and our subject experts known. This role works closely with colleagues across communications, policy and public affairs, grant programmes, our research centres and the researchers we fund to uncover the strongest stories and get them in front ..... full job details .....