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About the Role
BerlinRosen is seeking an experienced communications, media relations, and public affairs strategist to join as a Vice President. This role involves counseling clients through comprehensive communication strategies, engaging stakeholders, and driving policy changes across various levels. Key responsibilities include managing junior staff, client relations, and contributing to team capacity planning and business development in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of integrated communications strategies including earned, owned, and paid media to meet clients’ objectives
- Drive high-touch, daily client communications with the same client leads: brainstorming, flagging concerns and problem-solving
- Manage a team of junior staff on each account you lead, strategically influencing deliverables’ quality and staff development by delegating, modeling smart practices and providing feedback
- Coordinate across internal and external teams to deploy integrated services (media relations, digital advertising, research) to meet your clients’ goals
- Drive new story angles and other media opportunities for clients, conceptualizing creative feature stories and identifying new targets across print, broadcast, radio and podcasts
- Lead thought leadership programs for executives, drafting persuasive and compelling pitches and op-eds, and identifying new opportunities to raise an executive’s visibility
- Work closely with senior team leaders on capacity planning to ensure that the team is running efficiently
- Contribute to business development and growth efforts
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience working in strategic communications and media relations in relevant spaces (advocacy, politics or government)
- Agency experience is a plus
- Strong storytelling skills and demonstrated ability to create news moments
- Savviness and creativity in media relations and pitching, social media content ideation and influencer engagement
- Understanding of New York City and State politics and media preferred, expertise in other geographies valued
- Experience with thought leadership and executive profile raising a plus
- Experience in designing media and marketing programs to reach stakeholder audiences
- Experience engaging and maintaining strong relationships with relevant reporters and handling rapid response and long lead stories
- At least 2 years of experience managing teams
- Ability to confidently communicate clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing, with varying levels of staff, clients and the media
- Comfortable thinking on their feet
- Organized and used to a fast-paced environment with the capability to handle multiple assignments at once, work quickly and meet deadlines
- Proven ability to become a savvy and nimble student of the “news” and quickly identify new media opportunities and narratives
Skills
- Communications strategy
- Media relations
- Public affairs
- Integrated communications
- Earned media
- Owned media
- Paid media
- Stakeholder engagement
- Storytelling
- Media pitching
- Social media content ideation
- Influencer engagement
- Thought leadership
- Executive profile raising
- Team management
- Capacity planning
- Business development
- Rapid response
- Long lead stories
Location
- New York, N.Y.
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Vice President
- 8+ years of experience
- 2+ years of management experience
Salary/Compensations
- $140,000-$150,000
Benefits
- End of year bonuses based on firm, team and individual performance
About the Company
- BerlinRosen is part of Orchestra, a strategic communications and marketing company built for today’s complex and fragmented world.
- Orchestra integrates people, platforms, and stories that stick to help clients build lasting influence.
- The company offers programs that span from the highest level strategic business counsel through to tactical execution.
- Orchestra brings together 700+ people with experience across consumer and lifestyle, technology, nonprofit and philanthropy, real estate, sports, travel, hospitality, and more.
- Made up of leading firms BerlinRosen, Civitas Public Affairs Group, Derris, Glen Echo Group, Inkhouse, M18, Message Lab, Onward and Small Girls PR.
- It also launched Brightmode, a talent acquisition firm for communications professionals, and Versus Media Group, a strategy-first political media team.
- Learn more at www.orchestraco.com.
Equal Opportunity
- People of all backgrounds and abilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Orchestra is committed to building and maintaining a diverse staff, and recognizes that its continued success depends on hiring and retaining high-quality creative professionals with a variety of backgrounds and experiences.
- Opportunities for advancement exist, and we are committed to helping all staff develop and grow.