Public Relations Specialist

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager with over 65 years of experience helping a broad base of clients achieve their financial goals. Our expertise spans global equities and fixed income, multi-asset strategies, ETFs, and private investments.

Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. But there’s an unexpected side to us, too. We direct over 40% of our profits every year—more than $2 billion since 2000—to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Our ongoing financial support drives the Institute’s breakthrough work and mission of defeating life-threatening diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. So, the better we do for our clients, the more we can do for everyone.

All 1,400 of us across the globe are inspired every day by the unique difference our hard work can make in so many lives. It shows in the curiosity we bring to every initiative, the deep relationships we build with our clients, and the way we treat each other in the hallway. If you’re excited to learn more about us, we can’t wait to learn more about you.

Our Public Relations Specialist will put their communications skills to work to help shape and share American Century’s story with several important audiences, including trade, financial and consumer media, as well as employees and clients. The Public Relations Specialist will help develop communications strategies and implement the corresponding tactics—including external and internal communication and social media—that build and maintain our organization’s favorable image with the public and employees in support our strategic goals.

Our story inspires our clients and attracts and motivates our employees. It’s the story of how we became a leading global asset manager by focusing on serving clients and putting them first, while making an impact on global health. We distribute over 40% of our profits – more than $2 billion since 2000 – to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a nonprofit basic biomedical research organization and our single largest owner.

Our people are curious, creative, collaborative, adaptable and client focused. We encourage unique perspectives; value creative problem solving; and treat others with kindness.

The role

The Public Relations Specialist will provide support for public relations and communications projects and activities. They will have strong research and writing skills and are willing to develop the ability to translate complex financial information into digestible, meaningful communications for multiple audiences across a broad range of communication vehicles, including feature articles, press releases, media statements and pitches, talking points, presentations, studies, infographics, internal videos, digital signage, events and more.

The Public Relations Specialist will have strong communication and presentation skills with an ability to weave a compelling narrative. They will be willing to continuously improve their ability to confidently provide strategic counsel, ask good questions, challenge the status quo, suggest alternatives and articulate pros and cons.

They will use their interpersonal, teamwork and personal communications skills to engage key stakeholders, coordinate across multiple organizations and track timelines, developing their project management skills with judgment and discretion. Our ideal candidate proactively seeks out creative ideas, current trends and communications best practices, and is confident in presenting that information for further brainstorming and evaluation.

This role requires performance at a tactical level with a high degree of professionalism, attention to detail and discretion in handling confidential information.

The Public Relations Specialist will spend roughly 20 – 25% of their time on media monitoring, tracking, evaluation, and creating the daily press update newsletter. Duties include searches for American Century coverage throughout the day, creating PDFs, cataloging the firm’s news coverage in our database, writing descriptions for each article and publishing the daily press update to brief management, sales, and other client-facing teams and stakeholders about American Century in the news.

In this role, they will also:

• Support media briefings, press conferences and media tours.
• Write content promoting firm news and priorities for external and internal audiences
• Help execute communications plans for product launches, marketing campaigns and firm news.
• Conduct reputation and media monitoring and reporting, including competitor analysis.
• Collaborate with American Century colleagues and subject matter experts to tell American Century’s story accurately and compellingly.
• Engage and educate employees through the development of timely, thoughtful content and imagery for our intranet, digital signage, bi-weekly newsletters, internal events and mass emails.
• Assist with internal communications editorial calendar maintenance, measurement dashboard and reporting.
• Support our social media team in the creation of short-form, engaging content for our social media channels.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Public Relations, Communications or English.
• Validated experience in the use of AP Style guidelines and unwavering attention to detail.
• Proficient with Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Teams.
• Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and Supports a culture of compliance

Nice but not necessary:

• Familiarity with the financial services sector.
• Familiarity with Cision, Factiva, Sharepoint, Workfront.
• Familiarity with any of the following: Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro

Additional Requirements

Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.

American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.

American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.

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