What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Vice President position at Gregory FCA?
Gregory FCA, one of the nation’s largest PR firms, is looking for an Associate Vice President to join our team! We are looking for a someone who can independently oversee campaigns, with strong media relations and project management skills. This is a client facing role, with a focus on leading meetings, ensuring quality service delivery, and educationg and mentoring team members. An interest and/or experience in financial services is a plus! The ideal candidate is in commutable distance to our Boston office.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and align daily activities to assure quality standards and to reach client expectations. They set the tone and pace of the day, prioritize objectives on a daily basis, and delegate work to other team members. Strong communicator - able to communicate account work direction to staff and make sure all team members are working collaboratively.
- Strong project management skills. Able to properly staff accounts, understanding the workload/team members need to complete SOW, and to see projects through, independent of VP or SVP.
- Conduct media outreach at a high level of impact. Oversee media strategy. They save difficult media assignments for themselves while delegating others to team members according to skills and abilities.
- Actively participate in the management of the team’s development of day-to-day work. Also manage team members (as directed by SVP), including a focus on career development, feedback and any performance issues.
- Senior level “go to” for client suggestions and inquiries and acting as day to day point person.
- Write strategic press releases, blog posts, media queries, and social media posts.
- Champion of the firm; providing ideas for firm training; leading training events.
- Stay current and add to personal understanding of issues, processes, terms, products, and regulations specific to clients’ industries.
- Provide feedback to VPs and SVPS on issues of strategic direction, competitive threats and changes in the public relations landscape.
- Participate in Gregory FCA marketing initiatives and play a key role in meetings and new business processes. Able to lead sales discussions, generate leads and maintain a sales goal each year, and attend industry events.
- All other tasks as assigned.
Education:
- An undergraduate degree in communications, public relations, journalism, English, or a similar major.
Experience/Skills:
- 7-8 years of PR experience
- Proficiency in Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, and operational and productivity tools, including AI and how to use it with day-to-day work
- Team player
- Leader and mentor
- Detail oriented
- Organized
- Self-motivated
- Ability to flag issues and create solutions
- Mastery of communication skills
- Desire to learn
- Client service oriented
- Adaptable to changing work demands and priorities
- Goal oriented
- Positive attitude
- Project management
- Sales ability
Compensation and Benefits
Salary commensurate with experience. We offer our employees a competitive compensation and benefits package, including health insurance, 401(k) plan, paid time off and paid holidays, life insurance and short-term and long-term disability insurance, among other benefits.
Gregory FCA is an equal opportunity employer, and will not engage in or tolerate unlawful discrimination on account of a person’s sex, age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual preference, or orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability, or any other protected group or status.
