Senior Press Officer and Deputy Head of Media Relations

Do you want to work where change is happening and be part of shaping the future? Join our journey towards Fossil Free Living within one generation! If you are a team player who at the same time enjoys proactivity, taking initiative and working in an international environment - then the position as Press Officer at Vattenfall may be something for you!
 
Vattenfall is now recruiting a Senior Press Officer and Deputy Head of Media Relations to the Swedish Media Relations team in the Communications department, with placement in our Head Office in Solna.
 
About this team:
The Media Relations team is responsible for strengthening Vattenfall’s reputation and brand and the understanding of Vattenfall’s strategy through proactive and reactive communication in earned media. This includes drafting messages and press releases, crisis communication and press duty.
 
Your responsibilities as Senior Press Officer and Deputy Head of Media Relations include:
 
Proactively find opportunities for communication in media
Have an operative as well as strategic role
Have an operational team-lead role for the Swedish media relations team, leading the daily work
Prepare and publish press releases, interviews, statements and messages in cooperation with relevant stakeholders
Support spokespersons with media training
Being able to be the spokesperson towards media when needed
Being part of the press duty as well as internal security and incident updates



Your profile and personal skills:
 
Relevant university degree in communication, journalism or equal
Significant and proven working experience within journalism, PR, media relations or equivalent with an existing network within media
Preferably you have experience from working with Media Relations in a large organization as well as being a spokesperson and are used to communicate with journalists
Strategic, creative and used to work in a proactive way and cross discipline
Cooperative team player who finds joy in working with others
You see the big picture and can find relevance for Vattenfall in external context

In addition, the following qualifications are important for this position:
Excellent knowledge of the developing media landscape as well as social media
Strong ability to accurately value information by its actual and potential commercial impact on Vattenfall
Ability to develop newsworthy stories around initiatives within Vattenfall
Excellent skills in writing and editing in Swedish and English



Location: Arenastaden Solna, Sweden
 
At Vattenfall we are convinced that striving for diversity helps to build a more profitable, efficient and attractive company. Therefore we seek a harmonious balance of employees in terms of age, religion, gender identity & expression, sexual identity, disability and ethnic background. Read more on how we work with diversity and inclusion here:
https://careers.vattenfall.com/about-us/diversity-and-inclusion/


We welcome your application, including CV and cover letter via the link below, no later than the 6th of April 2020.


For more information about the position you are welcome to contact Hiring Manager Markus Friberg (Director Media Relations & Editorial) +46 70 261 3084. For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact Recruiter Tanja Husu at +46 73 430 63 14
 
Trade union representatives in Sweden Michelle von Gyllenpalm (Akademikerna), Anders Bohlin (Unionen), Christer Gustafsson (Ledarna), Juha Siipilehto (SEKO). To get in contact with the representatives, please call Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00.


Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.


Since Vattenfall is part of the Swedish critical infrastructure are many of our positions security classed. If this position is security classed the final candidates can be subject to a security vetting process, according to the Swedish legislation.


Location: Stockholm