PR Coordinator

Job Title: PR Coordinator

Company: BritBox International

Reporting to: Director, Publicity

Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time

About Us

Welcome to BritBox, the ultimate streaming destination for British TV. We bring you an unparalleled collection of thoughtfully curated entertainment, cleverly crafted and brimming with the kind of charm, wit and heart only the Brits could deliver.

The PR Coordinator will be responsible for supporting with communications and publicity to drive awareness for Original series premieres and other BritBox initiatives.

As part of a relatively small but growing team it will be important for the incoming person to be an ambitious, collaborative, and proactive team member who is eager to take on new projects and tasks as needed. They should be a resourceful problem-solver and take initiative on any and all projects.

Skills and Personal Attributes

• Self-starter and determined approach to achieve success in a time pressured environment
• Strong collaboration skills to enable problem-solving and produce positive outcomes
• Outgoing and enjoys connecting with people across all walks of life as a way to cultivate relationships and engage stakeholders
• Has an even temperament in the face of adversity
• Knows how to work on a small, tight-knit team
• Highly developed written and verbal communications skills with the ability to influence
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently requiring excellent organisational skills
• A proactive and flexible approach to work and comfortable with a dynamic environment with changing priorities
• Ability to use own initiative with confidence, using judgment to escalate where necessary
• Applies tenacity to all challenges in order to problem solve and find answers quickly
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment who knows how to navigate ambiguity
• Collaboration with external partners and international press - this will require some flexibility in terms of working hours
• Partners with cross-functional teams - including Marketing, Brand, Creative, and Programming - to align on coordinated PR strategies that amplify our series launches
• Executing events and supporting talent relations will also require occasional overtime and weekend hours
• Demonstrates a keen awareness in social media trends, pop culture moments and emerging digital platforms and outlets to inform innovative and relevant PR strategies

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree – Graduate Degree a plus
• Preferably experience in publicity, communications, events or talent relations for a streamer or TV/Film studio
• Understanding of media landscape, industry trends, and pop culture

Responsibilities

Administrative

• Create and maintain department reports
• Maintain departmental calendar
• Create, update and maintain content contact sheets and press lists
• Execute and own purchase ordering process through SAP Concur from vendor set up through to payment
• Schedule meetings & book conference rooms
• Process expense reports
• Spearhead weekly team and agency meeting agendas including taking notes and sending meeting recaps and action items
• Support in maintaining departmental budget

Media Relations & Communications

• Track and update changes for consumer, entertainment, and trade press lists
• Distribute requests from press outlets to proper team or agency member
• Create and distribute screener letters
• Track, store and distribute key assets - trailer, key art, episodic images etc.
• Draft and edit PR materials such as press releases, media alerts, monthly listings, and pitches
• Maintain and update BritBox media hub with available assets to press
• Participate in brainstorming and creative meetings
• Assist with relevant research for upcoming projects
• Show a strong interest in national press, media and industry trends and regularly consume them across various platforms

Talent Relations and Events

• Create and maintain talent schedules
• Arrange all travel and grooming needs for talent, including negotiating rates with groomers (hair/make-up) and stylists under direction of supervisor
• Work special events – premieres, press junkets, screenings as needed
• Work on press/talent mailers and gifting as needed
• Greet clients, talent, creative staff & executives and acts as talent liaison at special events
• Check-in press at screenings/special events. Compile attendance lists & reactions to circulate internally and externally

Salary Range: $60-65K base salary + competitive benefits + bonus potential

Please note that the salary range is intended to give as an indicator of the salaries that could be attributed to the breadth or experience for a given role. All candidates will be measured based on their level of experience.

Our Values

Our BritBox Global Values not only represent our culture but also ensure that we have principles that shape everything we do. Defined by our employees, they are not just words on a page, but the foundation of how we work together, every day.

Our values have been cascaded into specific behaviours, which are embedded into all of our people processes, including hiring, onboarding, performance evaluation and feedback.

We are proud of our values and seek to hire people who resonate with them

This job spec is not exhaustive and may change from time to time in line with the evolving nature of a dynamic and growing business.