Strategist

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$80K/yr – $125K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 4 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and drive integrated communications strategies that align with organizational priorities, turning insights into messaging, campaigns, and stakeholder engagement across digital, traditional, and leadership channels.

  • Lead strategy development and messaging frameworks
  • Guide campaigns, channels, and stakeholder engagement across enterprise programs

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement integrated communications strategies that support organizational priorities, stakeholder engagement objectives, and mission outcomes.
  • 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.
  • Develop strategic briefs, messaging frameworks, communications plans, content strategies, and campaign recommendations.
  • Assist in 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 communications products.
  • 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

  • Experience developing communications strategies, stakeholder engagement plans, public affairs initiatives, or integrated communications campaigns.
  • Strong understanding of audience analysis, strategic messaging, and communications planning methodologies.
  • Experience translating research findings, audience insights, and performance data into actionable communications recommendations.
  • Experience 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.

Preferred

  • Interest in geopolitics, international affairs, public affairs, development, or mission-driven communications is preferred.
  • Experience supporting commercial brands and entities through the development of communication strategies preferred.

Benefits

  • Work on impactful programs supporting federal and defense-related initiatives.
  • Collaborate with high-performing cross-functional teams across communications, digital and analytics disciplines.
  • Opportunity to shape strategic public engagement initiatives at enterprise scale.
  • Flexible hybrid working environment.
  • Exposure to complex, mission-driven stakeholder engagement challenges.
  • Career development opportunities within a fast-growing global organization.
  • We offer a competitive salary and a benefits package designed to support your health, family life, financial wellbeing, and growth.
  • 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
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M&C Saatchi World Services

M&C Saatchi World Services is an issues-focused communications agency. We combine cutting edge communications and technologies to help our clients solve the world’s most complex challenges.As a specialist division of M&C Saatchi Group, our creative solutions bring vision to reality through our integrated capabilities across strategy, insights, content, media, and data. We address global challenges with passion, innovation, and collaboration to make meaningful impact on the world.

Founded in 2014
London, England, GBR
286 employees (50 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$80K/yr – $125K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
41 (14% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
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Traffic Source Mix
Search
24.4%
Direct
59.1%
Referral
5.4%
Social
9.9%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~283
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Strategist

M&C Saatchi World Services · District of Columbia, USA · Hybrid