Editorial Content Strategist, Digital & Insights

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$86K/yr – $142K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own and accelerate multi-channel content for large campaigns, leading editorial strategy, rapid drafting, and cross-team collaboration to drive impact across earned, owned, and paid media.

  • Lead rapid content development across earned, owned, and paid channels
  • Align content with campaign goals across media relations, digital, and design
  • Translate data and insights into multichannel content

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead rapid response content development across earned, owned, and paid channels for large scale campaign — from breaking news moments to proactive campaign beats
  • Serve as the editorial and strategic lead on content that reaches a variety of audiences, including but not limited to media, policymakers and regulators
  • Monitor news cycles, track emerging trends, and identify opportunities to insert clients into relevant conversations
  • Draft and edit a range of content quickly and with precision, including press materials, digital copy, paid media scripts, executive messaging, and more
  • Develop content strategies for long-term reputation building projects, ensuring consistent narrative continuity across campaigns, channels, and client touchpoints
  • Partner closely with the media relations team to ensure content is strategically aligned, on message, and ready to move at the pace of the news cycle
  • Collaborate with digital, creative, and design teams to concept and produce campaign assets aligned to strategic objectives
  • Partner across practice areas to ensure content is integrated, consistent, and ladders up to broader campaign goals
  • Bring a journalist's instincts and a strategist's discipline to everything you write and produce
  • Collaborate with SEO, AEO, and analytics experts to optimize content performance and discoverability.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in communications, PR, content strategy, or a related field
  • Deep understanding of the media landscape and what makes content newsworthy — without necessarily owning media relationships directly
  • Strong writing across formats — long-form, short-form, organic social, paid media, executive voice
  • Experience translating data and insights into multichannel content
  • Experience working in or alongside digital and creative teams on integrated campaigns
  • Comfort with the creative concepting process and ability to brief and collaborate with designers and producers
  • Ability to manage multiple workstreams under deadline pressure
  • Strong project management capabilities, including oversight of multichannel, integrated campaigns, with a proven ability to manage senior and junior team members

Preferred

  • Experience in public affairs, policy, or regulated industries is a plus
  • Experience working with optimization for SEO and LLMs
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FTI Consulting is the leading global expert firm for organizations facing crisis and transformation, with more than 7,900 employees located in 32 countries and territories.Our professionals work closely with clients to anticipate, illuminate and overcome complex business challenges and make the most of opportunities.

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