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We are Heard the multi-award-winning charity helping people, organisations and the media tell stories that change hearts and minds.
In 2024, we sparked stories that reached a combined audience of 39 million: about poverty, climate change, migration, domestic abuse, sexual violence, trans experiences and children’s palliative care.
We partner with storytellers across TV, film and news shaping popular culture – such as the BBC, Netflix, Sky, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, LBC, The Times, The Guardian and Paramount – to help them tell powerful and captivating stories at scale that make change feel possible.
We support, up-skill and empower more than 600 professionals a year to embed framing into their everyday communications and champion narrative change in their own sector to make impact long-lasting and sustainable.
We co-create with people with lived experience to ensure their learnings are shared and their voices are fairly represented.
Programme Coordinators (PC) at Heard support the delivery of the innovative and varied programmes of work we develop, to bring about long term narrative change across a number of social justice issues. This role will be working directly with our Economy, Youth Media and All About Trans programmes.
Programme Coordinators (PC) hold much of the day-to-day operations of the programme, and help plan, deliver and evaluate activities aligned with programmes’ strategies including: media, sector training and trusted messenger work. This includes coordinating with colleagues, sector partners, lived experience networks and consultants to keep work moving smoothly and on track.
All About Trans is a programme that works to improve media representation of trans people. The programme works with a lived experience network of trans people.
Youth Media is currently a one year research programme looking at how young people of migrant backgrounds (or from families with intergenerational migration histories) feel about representation in the media they watch and engage with.
Our new Economy programme explores how we can shift public mindsets about the economy – to understand that different approaches are possible, and that we all have agency over how our economy is designed. This programme works with lived experience to consultant to co-create a framing toolkit on a new economy, and to work with the media on telling a new story about the economy
Read more about the key responsibilities and expectation in the full job description here.
To apply please complete this application form. The application deadline is 11.59pm on Sunday 10th May.
Here’s more info about the form and application process:
