Media & Communications Manager (UK/EU)

Employer: Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility

Work Type/s: Permanent; 4-5 days/week (32-40 hours) [please specify your preference when applying]

Salary: base salary of GBP50-70K (UK) / NOK700-950K (Norway) depending on experience [pro rata if part time]. For an exceptional candidate a slightly higher salary may be available.

Sector/s: Not For Profit (NFP)

Location: UK or Norway, working from home. Other Nordic countries may be considered for an outstanding candidate.

Job posted on: 5 December 2025

Applications close: 5pm GMT on 19 December 2025

Likely interview period: 5-9 January 2026

Role: ACCR seeks to meaningfully accelerate fossil fuels phaseout, through catalysing effective action by institutional investors to mitigate physical and systemic climate risk. As ACCR’s work expands, growth in our communications team is needed. This new role for an experienced communications professional who will work closely with colleagues in Australia and Europe to build ACCR’s profile and brand and deliver ACCR’s communications strategy, with an audience focus on institutional investors based in the UK and Europe, particularly in Norway.

Staff at ACCR are based across Australia and Europe so this role will need to be available to work regularly (at least 3 days/week) from 6am BST/GMT, with flexibility for hours at other times around this. Travel to Australia at least once for a year for a couple of weeks is also part of the role. Occasional travel within Europe may be possible by agreement.

You’ll love this job if:

• You enjoy using your excellent media and communications skills strategically to make an impact. You already are well connected in the UK and/or Norway.
• You understand the financial sector, its media entry points and how to communicate with it. You may have experience in an investment fund or similar entity; if not, you would be able to come up to speed quickly to engage with corporate/finance audiences.
• You would thrive in a dispersed, multidisciplinary, highly skilled and motivated team focused on making a difference in decarbonisation.

Responsibilities

The role will include the following types of tasks in relation to the UK and Norway, and at times more broadly in Europe:

• Work with the Strategic Communications Lead to build a consistent ACCR brand presence with mainstream media, investors and civil society, including building relationships with institutional investors in UK and Europe, for example, increase ACCR’s profile in investor publications; interface with investors and their communications departments
• Build and manage media relationships, responding to media requests, drafting media releases, aligning media with organisational messaging
• Collaborate with ACCR’s Australian-based media agency and colleagues to ensure non-duplicative media outreach and protection of relationships
• Work with other members of the ACCR Communications team, to create digital content for ACCR’s digital channels
• Proactively identify speaking opportunities and conferences in the UK and Europe, pitch ACCR spokespeople, and support in preparation for events
•  Under the leadership of the Strategic Communications Lead, contribute to the development of UK/Europe communications strategies to support ACCR industry and financial sector workstreams
• Contribute to the development and execution of ACCR’s narrative strategies

Criteria

We’re looking for someone with these types of skills and experience:

•  Substantial (7+ years’) experience in media and communications, including experience developing sophisticated communications strategies for impact
• Excellent writing skills for media releases and digital content
•  Excellent interpersonal skills for building external relationships and collaborating within a multidisciplinary, international team and preparing staff for media work
•  Ability to work nimbly and independently, while having good judgement as to when to bring others in on decision-making
•  Experience with/in investment/stewardship/financial institutions would be a very strong advantage
•  Climate experience would be a bonus
• A commitment to ACCR’s mission and values including demonstrating respect and genuinely valuing diversity.
•  Flexibility to work overlapping hours with colleagues in Australia and travel occasionally.
• Comfort working in a remote virtual context – connected to colleagues elsewhere, possibly with some colleagues within the same region depending on location, but also able to work from home, and thus having an ability to operate fairly autonomously.

If you don’t meet every point above, please still apply if you can see your skills well used in this role.

Reporting to: Strategic Communications Lead (based in Australia)

Key Relationships: Communications Officer, Digital & Marketing Lead, Research & Publications Manager, Publications Editor (all based in Australia)

About ACCR: ACCR is a non-profit shareholder advocacy and research organisation founded in 2012. We seek to meaningfully accelerate fossil fuels phaseout, by catalysing step-change across industries and financial markets, in the interests of investors, planetary systems and people.  We use a range of tools, including company and investor engagement, the filing of resolutions, legal strategy, and the publication of financial analysis. More information about our latest work can be found in our FY25 Annual Review.

ACCR has a dynamic team of about 40 driven and experienced staff, based in Australia and Europe, working globally. Our growing team has a wide range of expertise - climate science, communications, engineering, law, equities analysis, finance, investor relations, IT and more.

What we offer:  

• We enjoy flexible work hours and supportive home-based working.
• Annual team retreat so we can connect, learn and grow together.
• 5 weeks’ annual leave.
• We value peer learning and each of us has a professional development budget to use towards individual career goals.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing platform, which includes a discount for friends and family.

Further details relevant to each jurisdiction can be provided on request and discussed at interview.

Application Guidelines

We use Applied as our recruitment platform, helping us reduce the risk of unconscious bias in our hiring process.

We will ask you to answer 3 questions designed to test your ability to do the job. Please give it your best effort, your scores on these questions will be the primary consideration in whether you are invited for an interview. To avoid bias, we do not look at CVs until later in the process.

Once started, you can save and return to your application before submitting. For example;

• Give an example from your work history of when you have led a successful communications campaign. Describe how you approached it; why you chose the tactics you did; and how you deployed your tactics. Reflect on what you learned from this experience. [250 words]

Please note, for this role, ACCR is only able to employ those who have the pre-existing legal right to work in the location from which they will be working.

We value diversity, equity and inclusion in our workplace. ACCR encourages applications from people of all cultures, abilities, sex and genders.

ACCR is committed to improving accessibility to enable the full participation of a diverse workforce. If there are any alterations to this recruitment process that would assist you in applying, please let us know.