Responsibilities:

• Builds and maintains productive client relationships, including serving as a day-to-day contact

• Monitors news, social media platforms and other published content relevant to clients to assess news opportunities, risks, etc.

• Collaborates on media and influencer relations strategies and story angles

• Helps create and maintain targeted media and influencer lists

• Communicates with news media to pitch story ideas and cultivate relationships; communicates with influencers to pitch creative concepts and cultivate relationships

• Builds and maintains relationships with key media and influencers

• Conceptualizes, writes and distributes content for clients including thought leadership, awards, blogs, guest columns, op-eds, technical pieces and other long-form content

• Contributes to client planning and budgeting

• Utilizes media monitoring and research tools

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent industry experience required

• Minimum 2 or more years of related experience and/or training

• Excellent communication and persuasion skills, both written and oral

• Ability to work autonomously, lead projects and work on a team collaboratively

• Impeccable attention to detail and stellar organizational skills

• Creative problem solver with strong critical thinking skills to manage the unknown and plan ahead

• Media relations experience, including pitching national, regional, local and trade news media and securing interviews and coverage for clients

• Influencers relations experience, including discovery and vetting and management