Opportunity for Communications Manager to join AIC team in 2025
The Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC) – the UK agri-supply industry’s trade association – is recruiting a Communications Manager to drive the trade association’s messaging to its Member businesses, policymakers, and agri-food industry stakeholders.
This diverse role works closely with AIC’s busy team of policy leads and technical managers to create high quality, engaging content for print and digital channels, as well as managing press relations, and supporting events.
Reporting to the Chief Executive, this full-time role benefits from a competitive salary, flexible hybrid working, generous pension scheme, and industry-leading employee benefits.
If you’re an agri-food communications professional who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you. Click below to view the full job description.
Essential skills
Applicants must have the ability to:
- Write clear, accurate, and engaging copy
- Translate complex policy and technical detail into accessible information
- Edit and proofread copy, maintaining high-quality standards
- Create and distribute press releases which generate strong coverage in the agricultural and food industry press, as well as national media
- Proactively brief journalists on hot topics, field press enquiries, coordinate interviews with technical experts, and draft and issue reactive lines
- Use CMS to create web resources (news, blogs, briefings, FAQs etc), email campaigns, and update webpages
- Manage social media channels by posting regular content, drive engagement, and analyse trends
- Bring creative ideas to solve problems and improve the impact of AIC’s communications
- Ability to work within a team and maintain clear channels of communication
How to apply
Send your CV and covering letter to Julia Corr ([email protected]) by 24 January 2025.
Alternatively, contact us for an informal conversation about this role. Visit AIC's website to learn more about the trade association.
Author
Oli Hill
As Head of Communications, Oli creates and oversees the content published on AIC's website, emails, Member briefings, print publications, and social media. A qualified multimedia journalist, he previously spent six years working at Farmers Weekly magazine as a Senior Reporter on the arable team, and latterly as Community Editor. More recently he was Communications Manager at Red Tractor.