Junior Strategist (Community Engagement)

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$70K/yr – $80K/yrIntern/New GradFull time

Posted 4 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and drive integrated communications programs that advance community engagement, translating audience insights into messaging and coordinating cross‑functional campaigns while measuring impact.

  • Own strategic briefs, messaging frameworks, and content plans
  • Collaborate with creative, analytics, and stakeholder teams to align with objectives

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the development and implementation of integrated communications strategies with a focus on community engagement objectives.
  • Translate audience insights, research findings, and organizational goals into effective communications approaches and messaging frameworks.
  • Support the development and execution of communications campaigns across digital, social, stakeholder engagement, and traditional communications channels.
  • Support the development of strategic briefs, messaging frameworks, communications plans, content strategies, and campaign recommendations.
  • Conduct audience research, stakeholder analysis, environmental scanning, and trend monitoring to inform strategic decision-making.
  • Collaborate with creative, content, media, analytics, and stakeholder engagement teams to ensure communications activities align with strategic objectives.
  • Guide the development of creative, content, and production briefs that translate strategic intent into effective community engagement activities.
  • Support leadership communications, stakeholder engagement initiatives, public affairs activities, and mission-focused communications efforts.
  • Evaluate communications effectiveness through performance metrics, audience insights, sentiment analysis, and engagement reporting.
  • Develop presentations, reports, briefings, and recommendations that communicate strategic thinking and campaign performance to stakeholders.

Requirements

  • U.S. Citizenship: Must be a United States Citizen (required by government contract).
  • Clearance Eligibility: Must be able and willing to obtain a U.S. Government Secret or Top Secret security clearance immediately upon employment.
  • Background Screening: Must be willing to submit to a rigorous federal background investigation, which includes an in-depth review of personal finances, criminal history, employment history, and drug use.

Preferred

  • Experience developing communications strategies in the community engagement and outreach space, to include community engagement plans, public affairs initiatives, or integrated communications campaigns.
  • An understanding of audience analysis, behavior change communications, strategic messaging, and communications planning methodologies.
  • Experience supporting team members with translating research findings, audience insights, and performance data into actionable communications recommendations.
  • Experience supporting team members incorporating AI-enabled research, audience intelligence, and trend analysis tools into communications, engagement, and strategic planning efforts.
  • Curiosity in technology landscape and how AI is changing communications.
  • Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills.
  • Ability to synthesize complex information into clear, compelling, and audience-focused communications strategies.
  • Experience developing messaging frameworks, strategic briefs, communications plans, campaign recommendations, and stakeholder engagement approaches.
  • Strong stakeholder-management and relationship-building abilities.
  • Experience collaborating across communications, creative, research, analytics, stakeholder engagement, and program teams.

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
  • Choice of three medical plans (HSA at $0 cost; EPO 75% employer funded; PPO 65% employer funded)
  • 70% employer-funded dental and vision coverage
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M+C Saatchi Group is a global creative solutions company and the world’s largest independent creative network. We connect specialist expertise, powered by creativity, data and technology, to help build famous brands, solve the most complex business and societal challenges, and create and curate Cultural Power for our clients.

Founded in 1995
London, England, GBR
1.3K employees (474 in marketing)
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$70K/yr – $80K/yr

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Junior Strategist (Community Engagement)

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