Senior Communications Associate, France

**Description**:
We are hiring for a Senior Communications Associate, France to join The Better Information Project (TBIP), a new and ambitious team within the Meliore Foundation. TBIP’s mission is to create a revitalised and resilient information ecosystem in Europe. We will tackle the structural power of Big Tech and enable the regulatory and enforcement conditions for policymakers, civil society and entrepreneurs to develop and scale alternatives to the prevailing Big Tech model. We will do this by developing networked, strategic communications to stitch together, reinforce and deliver the narratives that support the case.

The Senior Communications Associate, France is a new role that will develop and implement a communications strategy for France based on our wider European theory of change, and lead one of our team’s strategic objectives for Europe.

In this role, you will grow a wide network of partners to create and engage in media opportunities in France and EU/Brussels, and build strategic relationships with leaders and stakeholders in industry, policy, and media spheres.

You will be part of a small but growing team of six communications professionals working in the EU and UK to build an information ecosystem that serves people, democracies and economies. This is the first role in France in the team, and you will report to the Director of TBIP.

This is an exciting and unique opportunity for an experienced and highly driven senior communications professional to make an impact on our technology ecosystem by building out a new geographical area of work for the team.

If this sounds like you, we'd love for you to apply.

**How you'll contribute**:

- Develop and implement a communication and campaigns strategy for France based on the wider team strategy for Europe.
- Lead the French desk work, alongside leading one of our team’s wider strategic objectives for Europe, setting clear goals and measuring impact.
- Build and maintain relationships with key partners in France and Europe, ranging from NGOs and academics to businesses, and offer strategic advice that supports campaign objectives.
- Build a diverse spokesperson network in France and Europe, identifying partners and leaders to help progress our strategic objectives; commission research and analysis to support this.
- Management of a small budget, under the supervision of your line manager
- Develop and maintain trusted relationships with key journalists and editors across mainstream and specialist media in France, as well as select journalists in the EU/Brussels space. Some pitching in English required to EU/Brussels media as relevant to your strategy.
- Deliver newsworthy, high quality communications interventions (press releases, quotes, op-eds, social media content, voices for broadcast media) in line with our strategic objectives. Monitor and evaluate the impact and outcomes of work.
- Pitch stories to French media that support our overall team strategy, using timely, targeted messaging tailored to resonate with local audiences.
- Make judgement calls on how and when interventions should be made in order to influence the public or political debate and advance our strategic objectives.
- Closely follow the political and media debates in France and Europe more widely as relevant to your strategy to proactively identify opportunities for communications interventions.
- Act as a source of intelligence for colleagues and partners.
- Any other duties to be assigned from time to time.
- Extensive experience in a media campaigning role, with a sharp sense of a good media story. Experience working directly with journalists.
- Ability to craft and pitch compelling, media-worthy stories that cut through noise and resonate with French and EU/Brussels audiences.
- Experience in the technology field is a plus, but not a requirement.
- Strong networking abilities to build and maintain relationships with key partners in the technology field. Ability to creatively form new relationships with diverse voices outside of the technology space.
- Project management skills to transform ideas into campaigns and communication outputs and manage their delivery, collaborating with various partners and experts.
- The ability to monitor political debates across a range of technology related issues, through media tracking and intel gathering.
- A self-starting attitude, capable of working independently to establish relationships and initiate projects.
- Solid understanding of campaign communications, with the ability to work with multiple stakeholders and advise partners on communication strategies.
- Residency in France and fluency in French.
- Fluency in written and spoken English, our working language; additional European languages are an asset.
- Genuine interest in and passion for addressing technology issues and envisioning a positive technology future.
- A generous, collaborative disposition in a high-trust global community of peers.
- Adaptable skills to thrive