Responsibilities

• Maintain consistent communication with clients and team, setting internal deadlines and ensuring those deadlines are met by you and your team.
• Respond to client emails and/or calls promptly; use judgment to ensure sensitive issues are responded to during off hours/weekends.
• Maintain consistent knowledge of current trends.
• With assistance from junior staff (as available), monitor, collect, track, evaluate and create reports on public relations tactics and activity – weekly, monthly and quarterly – as needed.
• Maintain successful relationships with key media members, locally, regionally and nationally; leverage relationships to generate strong client results.
• Draft press documents, pitches and other PR and marketing collateral.
• Ensure the client receives all media coverage in a very timely manner, either from you or your team members and is delivered in a manner that merchandises the agency’s relationships, efforts and/or understanding of the client’s business.
• Develop and manage media lists, editorial calendars and more.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, public relations or a related field, and 1-3 years of post-college experience in public relations. Agency experience highly preferred.
• Media relationships with lifestyle, food and beverage beat writers, editors and freelancers, regionally and nationally, and proven ability to secure consistent media coverage.
• Excellent writing skills and grammatical knowledge; proficiency in AP Style.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills; confidence and a collaborative nature.
• Creative thinker, who loves coming up with new ideas, or improving upon the tried-and-true.
• Proactive and organized; must have strong ability to balance multiple projects concurrently, prioritize, and take ownership of projects and relationships.
• Works well under pressure and in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

• Sixteen days paid vacation, plus one week flex time between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• Health, vision and dental coverage.
• Paid maternity/paternity leave.
• Flexibility and a relaxed team culture.