Responsibilities

• Work as part of a team to lead integrated communication strategies and earned media campaigns aligned with client objectives and emerging news cycles
• Manage communication initiatives from insight development through media activation, ensuring accuracy, clarity and impact at every stage
• Advise clients, internal teams and external partners on how to position findings for maximum reach, relevance and credibility
• Translate complex research and data into compelling narratives, press materials and media pitches
• Build, manage and grow relationships with national and global media contacts
• Proactively identify opportunities to insert Gallup research into timely conversations and high-profile outlets
• Orchestrate report launches, briefings and outreach with precision and urgency
• Operate seamlessly between big-picture communication strategy and meticulous execution, independently managing multiple fast-moving priorities
• Partner closely with researchers and client teams to ensure alignment between research insights and communication strategies
• Measure and evaluate media impact, tracking results against objectives

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in public relations, journalism, communications or marketing
• At least three years of experience in journalism or PR, including agency and client services experience, required
• Demonstrated success leading earned media campaigns required, preferably for research, public policy or social impact initiatives
• Experience working with reporters and established media contacts required
• Strong data fluency required, including the ability to independently analyze survey results and crosstabs to identify accurate, newsworthy insights
• Experience with Meltwater or other media software required
• Proficiency with AI tools required
• A commitment to working on-site at Gallup’s Washington, D.C., office at least three days per week required
• Eligibility to work in the United States required; this position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship
• Additional requirement to be explicit: none

Nice-to-have

• Influential partners: You quickly identify the right media contacts, build rapport to make outreach effective and are positively persistent. You secure coverage through credibility, strategic positioning and disciplined follow-through.
• Savvy communicators: You know how to make research resonate. You craft compelling stories from complex data sources and position insights in ways that stand out and drive conversation.
• Strategic thinkers: You continually absorb news and current affairs, aligning research insights with cultural moments and client priorities. You connect patterns across data, policy and public opinion to create large-scale opportunities for impact.
• Master orchestrators: Competing priorities and demanding timelines don’t faze you. You juggle multiple projects with clarity and focus, integrating partners and deliverables seamlessly.
• Driven professionals: You are responsible for contributing high-quality work, operating with urgency and delivering measurable results. You are confident in your expertise and comfortable advising senior leaders and clients.
• Smooth operators: You will be placed in situations involving senior leaders from Gallup, its clients and other high-profile individuals. In these situations, you are able to act with discretion and decorum, representing yourself and Gallup in a professional manner.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life and other insurance options as part of a robust benefits package
• A fully vested 401(k) retirement savings plan with company matching
• An employee stock ownership program
• Mass transit reimbursement
• Family-building benefits
• Employee assistance program
• Various reimbursements and activities that enhance wellbeing