Full Fat X JGA Apprenticeship

Full Fat is working in partnership with JGA to create an opportunity to take part in a placement programme for 2025.

The placement will be open to enthusiastic, driven, and creative candidate who looking for experience and learning opportunities at a creative comms agency across PR & Social Media. This will be the first step in their career in PR and Social Media and will support all levels of the organisation and work across the agency’s brand, lifestyle, events, festivals, food and drink clients.

FULL FAT

Full Fat is a PR and Social Media creative communications agency in London connecting food, drink, wellbeing, festivals & events and attractions with Gen-Z and Millennial audiences. The agency is made up of a team of creative, inspiring and talented individuals who all work to a common set of values - Adventure, Human Connection, Good Vibes and Owning It.

We’re proud of where we work and are firm believers that a happy team breeds success, that’s why we have Full Fat+ - an evolving employee programme promoting positive culture and wellbeing for our team. Through this we offer wellbeing days off, additional holiday, mental health training and check-ins, monthly wellbeing workshops and cultural experiences, hybrid & flexible working, all of which has led to us being certified as a Great Place To Work™.

We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality and inclusivity across everything we do, driven by Full Fat’s DEI Committee, made up of employees at all levels with diverse backgrounds. The agency was recently awarded Diversity & Inclusion Champion at the PR Week Awards 2023 and at the PRMoments Awards 2023.

Press office support

  • Organisation of assets

  • Coverage saving, i.e. scanning, screen grabbing or audio recording

  • Media monitoring, i.e. reading the daily newspapers to look for client coverage, scanning our media monitoring service for coverage

  • Creating and maintaining mailing lists and contact databases

  • Drafting press releases and copy

Media liaison

  • Developing contacts across consumer and trade media

  • Media meets and attending media workshops

  • Pitching into journalists via the phone and on email for campaign sell ins

  • Issuing and managing press and influencer invitations for events

  • Supporting media promotional activity, such as competitions, sampling offers

Agency support

  • Research and audience insight

  • Participation in internal creative meetings for clients and new business

  • Writing newsletters and blogs

Events

  • Support for event preparation including accreditation, interviews, immersions

  • On-site presence supporting team and liaising with media including occasional weekends and evenings

Administration

  • Answering incoming calls and taking messages where required

  • Office admin duties when/where required

Essential Skills

  • Relatively inexperienced in PR/Comms in order to get access to funding-no degrees or postgrad or more than 1 year experience

  • A basic understanding of the media

  • A competent writer - this should come easy to the right candidate

    • Good spelling, punctuation and grammar across all written work

  • A good communicator - confident in presenting, conversing and listening 

  • Organised - can prioritise, work efficiently and productively, and manage time well

  • Ability to work in a fast paced and pressured environment

  • Computer savvy

  • Maths and English-C or 4 minimum grade at GCSE (and be able to prove this) or the equivalent

  • 3 years residence in UK/Ireland

  • Not be in any other education/training

Desirable Skills

  • Experience working with events

Qualities we’re looking for

  • A fast learner

  • A positive, can-do mentality

  • Honest, empathetic and a team player who works well with others

  • Creative and up for sharing their ideas

  • Someone who likes a challenge and likes to problem solve

Please apply here.