Responsibilities

• Support crisis, issues, and litigation communications work by conducting rapid research, monitoring media, and synthesizing insights to inform client strategy
• Contribute to scenario planning, stakeholder mapping, and preparedness exercises to help clients anticipate and navigate potential crises
• Assist in drafting holding statements, Q&As, backgrounders, and other crisis communication materials for external audiences
• Assist in the development of client proposals
• Monitor issues, news events and competitor happenings
• Identify and compile lists of media contacts
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• A demonstrated interest in communications, journalism or political science
• Comfort in a fast-paced environment collaborating with a distributed team
• Excellent written and oral communication and research skills
• Entrepreneurial with strong critical thinking abilities
• Organized and attentive to detail
• Able to multi-task and approach assignments independently
• Strong working knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite
• Available to work 40 hours per week
• Requires US Work Authorization, unable to consider candidates with CPT/OPT/Post-OPT status