Responsibilities

• Own the delivery.
• Oversee timelines, budgets, estimates, approvals, invoicing, and reconciliations. Manage production with minimal oversight, spotting risks, scope changes, and smarter ways of working.
• Elevate the work.
• Play an active role in shaping presentations and outputs. Help ensure every piece of work is on brief, insight-driven, and strategically sound.
• Engage confidently with clients.
• Present clearly and articulately. Lead constructive discussions around feedback, filter and debrief thoughtfully, and push back where appropriate in a clear and solutions-focused way.
• Champion strategy.
• Understand the broader strategic direction of your accounts and work closely with strategy and creative teams to shape briefs and outputs. Be confident discussing research, evaluation, audiences, and channel approaches.
• Build strong relationships.
• Develop trusted relationships with clients and cross-agency teams. Represent creative and strategy perspectives effectively, and demonstrate strong knowledge of relevant regions, sectors, and current affairs.
• Contribute to agency life.
• Support cross-agency collaboration, mentor more junior colleagues, and contribute positively to team culture. Take part in recruitment conversations and wider agency initiatives.
• Manage up and down.
• Escalate issues appropriately, act as a reliable point of contact for production and delivery, and provide day-to-day leadership so senior team members can rely on you with confidence.

Requirements

• Must be US citizen due to the involvement with government contracts and eligibility to obtain a US security clearance.
• A degree in Politics, History, International Relations, Marketing, Communications, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence presenting to senior stakeholders
• A practical understanding of business operations and agency processes, with experience working with production
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• A strong interest in geopolitics and global affairs
• Willingness to travel internationally and work independently

Preferred

• Spanish language skills (working knowledge or fluency)

Benefits

• Family & parental support
• 12 weeks’ full pay for Primary Carers and 6 weeks for Secondary Carers (after one year of service; return requirements apply for subsequent leave)
• Applies to birth, adoption, and surrogacy
• Up to 10 days’ paid fertility leave per year (5 per cycle)
• 2 days’ paid leave for new grandparents
• $2,500 annual interest-free parental loan
• $6,000 interest-free fertility treatment loan
• Healthcare & wellbeing
• Three medical plans (HSA at $0 cost; EPO 75% employer funded; PPO 65% employer funded)
• $0 employee-cost dental and vision
• 10 days’ health leave per year (mental and physical)
• 24/7 mental health support through Self Space
• Wellhub subscription