Responsibilities

• Serve as a day to day client contact, where appropriate, continually fostering client-agency relationships, building trust, and anticipating and addressing client needs
• Provide strategy and counsel for developing comprehensive public relations programs that can address complex issues, including reputation and crisis management campaigns; contend with and navigate highly confidential, sensitive information and issues on behalf of clients
• Craft, manage, implement, and convey clients’ stories and messages through a full range of media outreach; cultivate, establish, and maintain working relationships with all levels of local, national, international, and trade media
• Write creative and effective press materials, client briefings, campaign plans, and communication materials; draft messaging and talking points for senior management presentations, including preparing executives for press interviews
• Pitch to media and execute long-range communications strategies that raise the profile of the client and its executives, securing coverage with regional and national publications; secure executive placement on prestigious industry panels and seminars
• Assist in planning and overseeing the coordination of large-scale media events, including organizing logistics, staffing, and managing press
• Oversee content creation on social media and the distribution of press materials across platforms
• Research topics essential to client issues and apply findings to strategy and approach
• Ensure that all team actions remain in synergy and all projects are delivered on-time and within scope at the highest quality