PR Associate

ABOUT US

Climate Impact Partners is the trusted partner for organizations taking ambitious climate action. Since 1997, we’ve helped leading businesses reduce or remove more than 151 million tonnes of CO₂e, turning climate ambition into measurable results.

What sets us apart:

· Boundless, urgent ambition. We are accountable, relentless, resilient.

· Courage to innovate. We are courageous, creative, curious.

· Integrity without compromise. We are trustworthy, credible, committed.

· Empowered to serve. We are respectful, inclusive, collaborative.

THE ROLE

As a PR Associate with Climate Impact Partners, you will play a crucial role in driving climate action by providing operational support across Climate Impact Partners' PR and Communications function, with a particular focus on running our corporate social media channels and supporting the delivery of external events.

The role also provides light-touch support on announcement drafting and awards submissions, giving the postholder a well-rounded introduction to comms.

This role is critical to building Climate Impact Partners’ brand, ensuring the business maintains a consistent, professional external presence day to day, freeing up senior leadership to focus on strategic narrative, media relations, and reputational risk management.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Social media (core)

You will run Climate Impact Partners’ corporate social channels day to day, ensuring they reflect our brand, narrative and reputation priorities.

· Manage daily publishing, scheduling and governance of Climate Impact Partners’ corporate social channels (primarily LinkedIn).

· Draft social posts aligned to the editorial calendar, leadership visibility needs and market developments.

· Ensure all content meets claims, accuracy and reputational safeguards before publishing (with Director sign-off on anything sensitive).

· Track performance through monthly reporting, identifying insights and optimisation opportunities.

· Support executive social media activity (drafting, posting, engagement monitoring).

· Lead live social coverage for events, award wins, announcements and milestones.

Events (core)

Support the Director in delivering external events, from Climate Weeks to sponsored engagements and speaking opportunities.

· Assist with logistical preparation: run sheets, checklists, registration and event materials.

· Coordinate speaker bios, briefing documents, session abstracts and submission forms.

· Support content capture and amplification for social media and PR channels.

· Assist with on-site event coordination where required.

Announcement support

· Maintain the organisation-wide editorial calendar (corporate, client, project and thought leadership announcements).

· Draft first versions of short-form comms materials (announcement copy, social copy) for Director review.

· Gather inputs and approvals from relevant internal teams.

· Maintain trackers covering announcements, upcoming milestones and required outputs.

Awards support

· Maintain the awards calendar across corporate, project, team and individual categories.

· Draft first-version award entries and coordinate collection of evidence, metrics and quotes.

· Coordinate social amplification for shortlists and wins.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

· Strong writing skills, including the ability to draft clear, concise social and short-form content.

· 1–3 years' experience in PR, communications, digital marketing, events or a related field.

· Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.

· Strong attention to detail.

· Curiosity and interest in sustainability, climate policy or market developments.

Desirable

· Experience with social scheduling or analytics tools.

· Event coordination experience.

· Experience in sustainability or climate-related communications.

Nice to have’s

· Sustainability and Climate Knowledge: Familiarity with climate action, carbon markets, and sustainability initiatives, and a passion for purpose-driven work.

Soft Skills

· Clear Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of distilling complex topics into clear, engaging messages for diverse audiences.

· Relationship Building and Stakeholder Influence: Strong interpersonal skills, with an ability to build collaborative relationships across teams and influence key stakeholders to align content strategies and priorities.

· Judgment and Problem-Solving: Ability to exercise discretion, navigate uncertainty, and make strategic decisions to mitigate risks and identify opportunities for brand visibility.

Values Alignment

· Alignment with company values of ambition, integrity, innovation, and service, with a demonstrated commitment to leveraging your role to drive positive impact and meaningful change.

PERKS

• Hybrid working

• 25 days paid holiday

• Private Health Insurance (we've teamed up with Vitality to offer you a wide range of perks, including free coffees, travel deals, and gym discounts)

• Enhanced Pension Scheme

• Bonus Scheme (subject to company and individual performance)

• **Enhanced Parental Leave

• Green Commute Bike Scheme

• Professional Training Budgets

• Summer Fridays (start your weekend early if you've finished everything on your to-do list)

• Working from Abroad (up to 4 weeks a year)

• Global Volunteering Day

• Modern, state of the art office in Paddington, London, which is dog friendly and includes showers, a mother's feeding room, a wellness room and barista coffee bar.

Climate Impact Partners is an equal opportunities employer. Our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workforce, that embraces our differences, and so all aspects of employment including the decision to hire and promote, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business need. We do not discriminate on the basis of characteristics protected under federal, state, or local law. To support this, all applications are anonymised until the interview stage which means that regardless of who has applied, your characteristics are totally anonymous.