What are the responsibilities and job description for the Account Director, Advocacy position at Beekeeper Group?
Beekeeper Group needs an Account Director, Advocacy, with direct experience in communications and social media in the policy / advocacy context for our growing Hive! We are looking for people who love a challenge and are not afraid of tackling multiple projects and building strong client relationships for a variety of clients simultaneously. Experience working for an advocacy organization, public affairs agency, political consulting firm, or campaign is a major plus – but not a deal breaker.
Our ideal candidate will build their own practice within the Beekeeper Group framework, can write anything from reports to tweets, possesses great digital savvy, and can quickly learn about complex policy issues and technology. If you aren’t afraid of diving in and getting it done, we want to hear from you!
What is Beekeeper Group?
We are a public affairs firm (think PR, but for causes) that embraces a fresh, community-based approach to cultivate and grow our client’s hive of supporters. Our model combines trusted advocacy methods and tools with emerging media platforms to deliver upon our clients’ communications, advocacy, and public outreach goals. We are very good at what we do, and have won a whole bunch of trophies to prove it!
Essential to our success is the diversity that team members bring to our company culture and client engagements. Beekeeper is an equal-opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a multicultural workforce where differences are valued, respected, and encouraged.
What will you be doing?
- Overseeing day-to-day activities on client accounts
- Interfacing with both internal and external teams
- Growing, managing, and mentoring a team of account support staff
- Actively manage, develop, inspire, and motivate staff to excel
- Anticipate potential challenges and evaluate strategies with senior leadership
- Provide expert communications and / or advocacy counsel to clients in line with their respective business priorities
- Overseeing operational performance of accounts, ensuring quality work, deadline, and budget adherence
- Effectively lead account teams on complex communications challenges and in the creation of communications plans and goals; manage against them
- Recognize and apply impactful communications trends, and translate those insights into actionable ideas
- Working closely with account team to ensure high quality and timely delivery of internal and external work to the overall satisfaction of assigned clients and supervisors
- Coordinating multiple aspects of client campaigns, as well as digital projects including website designs and development
- Building networks and supporting new business opportunity efforts
- Identify emerging opportunities to add greater value for clients
- Formulating reporting formats that showcase firm efforts and meet client needs
- Writing memos, analysis, and case studies
- Writing in a succinct and skilled manner; also proofing junior team members’ work product
- Identifying and building relationships with client community stakeholders
- Developing actionable strategies for blogs and social media
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Salary : $90,000 - $110,000