Head of PR for Stonewall, anyone?

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There's a vacancy - www.totaljobs.com/job/head-of-pr/stonewall-job97588202

Good opportunity for someone to make a difference

'by building deep, sustained change programmes with the institutions that have the biggest impact on us, whether we're learning, working, praying or playing sport.'

Being totally open about the strategy to influence institutions....

They aren’t paying much. Unless there is extra money put aside for your mum, support cat and security blanket human.

Oh dear have they still not been able to find anyone

Haven't they been advertising this for quite a while now? Surely they've been inundated by furries coming out of their mum's basements to do the job? All those ze/zim/zirs they're so desperate to chuck the LGB under the bus for will be desperate to help spread the message of kindness and inclusivity, surely?

its likely to be career suicide. Not a great name for your CV.

Gosh absolute career suicide I would imagine. Can you imagine being head of actual PR for Stonewall over the next few years. What a dangerous crock of a shambles you would be trying to promote and thats before the inevitable public inquiries and attempts to sue really kick off. We are in bargepole territory.

So nobody wants to take up this particular poison chalice then?
In the immortal, sarcastic words of Windsor Davies character Sgt Major Williams in ‘It Ain’t Half Hot Mum’: “Oh dear, how sad. Never mind!”

They are probably having problems getting an actual PR person as opposed to those that just identify as a PR person

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Brilliant! 😂

Any sound PR people will recognise the position as a poisoned chalice / career suicide.

Actually they are probably finding that the delicate little butterflies that a company such as them attract, aren't actually, looking at you KM, equipped to actually exist in the world that is work.

But their reputation is so down the toilet that a reliable knows what they are doing person is going to go "yeah...NO"

You’d know if you took this, you might one day find yourself in front of a tribunal explaining how lesbians are racist.

I can imagine the interview.

Do you need your support parent with you should you have to testify in court or a parliamentary committee?
Do you need a support animal?
What is that support animal?

I don't mock the poor young person - barristers were finding it hard enough to face questioning. Perhaps they also need support animals. Or a daemon.

I'm very tempted to apply. I'm a gardener and a farmer,with no PR experience,but if I say that I identify as a PR person,who are they to deny me?
I could bring my support sheep to every event I attend,all 350 of them. It's be great.

That vacancy has been advertised for months now. What could possibly be putting applicants off, I wonder?

No decent professional would contemplate it. Being asked to defend the indefensible day after day would be career-ending.

@Boiledbeetle I've stuck your comment into all the feminist WhatsApp groups I'm in - tempted to pass it off as my own but they are all probably Mumsnetters too.

The pay is nowhere near enough to get an actual head of comms.

I fancy applying and then going to some meetings and saying 'Yes you need to cancel us, and cancel us now' and then go back into retirement happy that I made a real difference.

Oh I shouldn't laugh at this comment, but I will 😂

To be fair I think we all thought it, when we read the OP!

I was just typing a thought direct from the hive mind!😎

The pay is nowhere near enough to get an actual head of comms.

Genuinely confused by this - what are they spending all their money on if it’s not communications staff? Isn’t comms and PR most of what they do?

That didn't stop Michael Cole, of course. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cole_(public_relations)

I can imagine a good professional relishing the challenge involved but not for that money (which is a good chunk more than my salary tbh but I'd be useless!)