Department: Marketing Team: PR and External Communications Location: London with hybrid working Position type: Fixed Term Contract (parental leave cover) – 12th January 2026 to 15th March 2027 What the hiring manager says “In this PR Executive role, you’ll play a key part in supporting and shaping the GSMA’s reputation with a global audience. Your work will directly contribute to building our position, increasing our visibility, and driving meaningful engagement with our key stakeholders. Whether it’s through events, strategic communications or impactful PR campaigns, you’ll help bring our story to life in a way that resonates and delivers results. You’ll gain hands-on experience in a dynamic, collaborative environment where your ideas are valued, your initiative is welcomed, and your growth is supported. If you’re looking for a role where you can see the real impact of your work and continue developing your skills alongside a passionate team, this is the place for you.” Teresa Wincrantz, Head of External Communications About the Team The External Communications team holds a unique position within the GSMA, supporting all pillars of the organisation; including Outreach, Industry Services and Solutions, and Connectivity for Good. This broad remit means we’re deeply involved across a wide range of global initiatives, amplifying the GSMA’s voice and ensuring our work has maximum reach. We’re a small and closely knit team, known for being agile, collaborative, and purpose driven. Our strength lies in our ability to work across functions, align with strategic goals, and deliver impactful communications. About the role As PR Executive, you will play a critical role in maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders, producing communications pieces, and creating reports that demonstrate the work and performance of the PR and Communications team. You will be a digital native, adept at using and learning new technologies. You’re driven, proactive, highly organised and focused on getting things done, whether that is writing drafts, collating reports or working collaboratively with the team and across a complex global organisation. Strong storytelling skills are essential, as you’ll help draft a variety of communications materials, including press releases, media alerts, and more. You will also oversee the organisation, and version control of key PR documents, ensuring all materials are properly approved and accessible. The role involves participating in meetings to capture key actions, track progress, and manage deliverables. You’ll be responsible for managing media inquiries via our press box, identifying and advancing high-impact opportunities with top-tier media that align with our strategic objectives. You’ll also support the Head of External Communications with a range of administrative tasks, including budget tracking, raising purchase orders, managing contracts and measuring the impact of our work. About You You bring relevant experience from PR, management consultancy, or another environment where you’ve built transferable skills in communication, strategy, and client relations. You’re someone who can confidently navigate challenges across teams, working smoothly with others to deliver high-quality results every time. You take initiative, meet deadlines, and hold yourself to a standard of excellence. You have demonstrable and hands-on experience with tools like Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Cision, WordPress, and the full Microsoft Office suite. Knowledge of AI tools is a plus. You’re a skilled communicator who knows how to adapt your message to suit different audiences, cultures, and contexts. You're enthusiastic, approachable, and diplomatic. You’re someone who takes ownership, solves problems, and isn’t afraid to roll up your sleeves to get things done. Contract type Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term) Worker type Employee What We Offer Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish. In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others. To learn more about the GSMA, visit our career site, our LinkedIn page and our Twitter page. Being You at the GSMA We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We're keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The sucess of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life. GSMA Values Our values not only drive our culture – they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation. Passionately driven We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact. Insightful leaders We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight and creativity so that we’re always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility and nuance. Stronger together We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us, embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own, fuelling each other’s successes and constantly asking how we can help. Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we’re at our best – we are collaborative, considerate and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we aren’t at our best and the pressure is on – we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play. If you're currently an employee at GSMA, please apply internally using the GSMAHub by clicking on ‘Jobs Hub’ in your main Dashboard. About the GSMA The GSMA is a global organisation unifying the mobile ecosystem to discover, develop and deliver innovation foundational to positive business environments and societal change. Our vision is to unlock the full power of connectivity so that people, industry, and society thrive. Representing mobile operators and organisations across the mobile ecosystem and adjacent industries, the GSMA delivers for its members across three broad pillars: Industry Services and Solutions, Connectivity for Good, and Outreach. Connectivity for Good engages members, governments and civil society, to advance positive policy and spectrum outcomes, facilitate digital innovation to reduce inequalities in our world, and tackle todays’ biggest societal challenges such as digital inclusion, climate change and sustainability. Industry Services and Solutions underpins the technology and interoperability that make mobile work. Via our projects, working groups and promotional activities we facilitate the industry’s focus on areas such as 5G, Mobile IoT, fraud and security. And our technical services offer tools, data and resources to enable even more efficient and robust mobile experiences for users. Outreach provides the world’s largest platform, convening and informing the mobile ecosystem, at MWC Barcelona, Shanghai, Los Angeles and the M360 series, and through Mobile World Live and GSMA Intelligence with breaking news, insights and expert analysis. We invite you to find out more at gsma.com.