Responsibilities

• Strategic Counsel: providing expert communications, advocacy, positioning and other strategic counsel to clients
• Account Management: managing overall quality and delivery of work on multiple accounts in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Oversee project management efforts on client projects and workstreams, including market research, strategy formation, and content creation, such as conducting a multi-stakeholder materiality assessment
• Anticipate client needs and concerns and work proactively with colleagues to address them
• Identify creative ways to engage on core issues and create new opportunities for clients to advocate for key priorities through events, meetings, and partnerships
• Build and/or manage coalitions, maintain relationships with third-party stakeholders, and mobilize like-minded outside groups to advance client priorities
• Exhibit commercial excellence: overseeing/managing budgets, invoicing, etc.
• Generate and lead new business development efforts
• Identify emerging opportunities to add greater value for clients
• Lead the business development, production, and continuous improvement of client proposals and practice marketing materials.

Requirements

• Minimum of BA/BS from accredited college or university
• 15+ years of relevant legislative and / or regulatory experience, issues management, public policy advocacy, communications and/or media affairs experience
• Congressional, Executive Branch, trade association and/or trade journalism experience is beneficial
• Existing relationships within the healthcare and life sciences political and advocacy space is desirable
• On-the-record media affairs experience; relationships with industry-focused journalists is preferred
• Ability to work under pressing deadlines across multiple projects and portray calm in the face of difficult situations to clients and other team members
• Superior strategic thinking, writing, and presentation skills required
• Outstanding work ethic, high-energy, a team-mindset, and strong time and priority management skills; and
• Strong proficiency and proven experience working in all Microsoft Office applications, particularly Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

Preferred

• Congressional, Executive Branch, trade association and/or trade journalism experience is beneficial
• Existing relationships within the healthcare and life sciences political and advocacy space is desirable
• On-the-record media affairs experience; relationships with industry-focused journalists is preferred