Media and External Communications Manager

Media and External Communications Manager

Fixed Term Contract / Secondment Opportunity until July 2026

Closing Date: 29/7/2025

Interviews will take place week commencing 28/7/2025 and 4/8/2025

A bit about the role...

You’ll play a pivotal part in driving forward strategic media relations activity and plans as part of the external communications strategy, and lend dynamic support to external communications colleagues with proactive and reactive tasks as required. 

The role demands collaborative working and sound decision-making skills, alongside the ability to adapt individual and shared priorities to achieve objectives with professionalism, accuracy and a good pinch of enthusiasm.  

You’ll become an instant part of a passionate, friendly team that care deeply about delivering brilliant, purpose led content to our audiences, with a little fun along the way.  

We work with creativity, curiosity and commitment in close collaboration with the wider communications team and a broad range of internal and external stakeholders that make every day different. 

This is a rare chance to help shape external communications in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. 

A bit about you…

This role is perfect for an experienced media relations professional and skilled communicator who can hit the ground running, loves making a positive difference through talent and teamwork, and views a fast-paced environment with favour not fear. 

Your media insight, ideas and expertise will help drive a first class press office function alongside media inputs and outputs as we strive to inspire a brilliant, diverse set of audiences through impactful stories that showcase our mission in action. 

You’ll be an agile operator with strong media and political knowledge, communications skills and an eye for detail, confident at juggling multiple communications challenges with speed not haste. You’ll be comfortable leading or contributing to operational and strategic tasks through clear action or advice, working at managerial level. 

You’ll have excellent negotiation and stakeholder management skills to senior level, while your discussions will always be shaped by our values and a strong understanding of the communications profession, from insight to evaluation.  

Who are we? 

Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency

We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.

How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.

Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.

What we offer... 

As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you. 

Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.

Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay policy. You can find details on the HR Hub SharePoint site.

If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names. 

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future. 

If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go. 

Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way. 

We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications. 

We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme. 

If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at this stage.