Vice President, Crisis & Risk Communications

Responsibilities

• Play an active role in strategically driving and developing crisis account work
• Lead operational and financial performance of account teams, ensuring quality work, effective processes and that client requests are handled in timely and strategic fashion
• Thoughtfully counsel clients based on business goals; take immediate action on client feedback
• Work alongside clients to develop communications plans and materials
• Oversee junior staff by providing clear and consistent feedback, and advancing work product
• Lead new business development efforts, capitalizing on, and contributing to, the Edelman global network to serve and help grow the firm’s food & bev offering, including proactively expanding existing relationships and bridging new relationships
• Demonstrate advanced writing skills and supervise writing of others
• Set and lead both traditional and social strategic media relations course
• Manage billing and budgets

Requirements

• Have 8 years+ of crisis management experience and experience running integrated account work, managing a team, and growing account work with clients.
• Able to work a hybrid schedule with 3 days a week in the Chicago office or on site with clients
• Have a bachelor’s degree in a related field

Preferred

• Knowledge of and experience with consumer/CPG clients or have food sector experience
• Ability to provide sound communications counsel in legally sensitive, fast-moving and high-pressure environments
• Excellent client relationship skills and experience giving counsel on strategy, approach, and execution
• Strong organizational, scheduling, and time/project management skills; possess the ability to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously
• Able to adapt on the fly, comfortable in a quickly and constantly changing landscape, and able to work in a fast-paced environment
• Track record of growing profitable programs that have advanced client business goals
• Media relations and message development skills to lead execution of plans, crisis response messaging and storytelling on behalf of clients
• Experience in working in new business and driving proposal development and opportunities for the team
• Sound judgment and proven problem-solving skills
• Ability to develop and help coach a team, in addition to leading work

Benefits

• DJEH offers a wide range of benefits: medical and dental insurance, vision, 401K, life insurance, disability insurance, paid time off, travel assistance and wellness programing.