Responsibilities

• - Take a larger role in planning and strategy, asking for leadership help when needed in creating a direct impact on client-directed financial goals/initiatives
• - Implement strategy and evaluate the performance of KPIs
• - Deftly navigate Harvest to see how your team is spending their time and can often make quick changes with help from the Leadership team to ensure everyone (teams and clients) remains happy
• - Oversee collective account workflow
• - Act as a trusted and valuable partner to clients
• - Liaise directly with clients while also encouraging the Publicist or Senior Publicist on your account to have visibility too (with the occasional behind-the-scenes guidance)
• - Nurture your network of editor, writer, and freelance connections for agency clients, as well as create new relationships, through ongoing introductions, targeted pitches, and minimum of 2 (two) media meetings (phone, virtual, or in-person) each month. Continue to be a trusted source of media knowledge for your teams
• - Demonstrate deeper media relations expertise by delivering more impactful hits
• - Mentor your teammates to grow their media relations skill-set through behind-the-scenes coaching or bringing them with you for meetings with key journalists
• - Focus on brand-building media relations meetings (pitching, organizing media visits, in-person meetings, reviewing and approving media lists) while occasionally dividing big lists with your team when needed

Requirements

• - Ability to travel for client needs - must have a valid passport for international travel
• - Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint & Adobe Suite
• - Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• - Excellent interpersonal skills
• - Excellent organizational skills
• - Must be able to identify and resolve problems promptly
• - High-energy, positive self-starter who is willing to go above and beyond to make a difference in a dynamic organization
• - Creative problem solver and decision-maker with a proven track record of delivering results
• - Proven ability to handle time-sensitive projects and prioritize multiple objectives simultaneously, to work independently, and to drive projects to completion with minimum guidance and acute attention to detail
• - Ability to think strategically but act tactically

Benefits

• J/PR offers a competitive benefits package, including:
• - Competitive base salary: $88,000 - $93,000 (commensurate with experience)
• - Commission opportunities
• - Eligibility for year-end discretionary bonus
• - Monthly Cell Phone Stipend
• - Company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance
• - 401K with employer match
• - Accrued PTO
• - Birthday PTO
• - Flexible Release Fridays