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?
No, we don’t work with literal bees…but you should see some of the emails we get looking for help with backyard swarms! 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?
- Managing direct client relationships
- 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
Skills
- 5-7 years full-time experience
- Ability to multi-task with shifting priorities based on client needs
- Comfortable working on tight deadlines and in a team environment
- Basic familiarity with paid social advertising
- Superior strategic thinking, writing, and presentation skills required
- Experience managing budgets and teams
- Experience managing multiple social media accounts simultaneously
- A strong desire to stay aware of the trends in communications and public affairs
- Knowledge of social media scheduling software
- Familiarity with monitoring metrics
Benefits
Here’s a look at what you can expect:
- The annual compensation for this role is between $90k-$110k, with the expectation that a successful candidate will be able to leverage our competitive business incentive structure (details available upon request).
- Health insurance (including medical, dental, and vision), of which Beekeeper Group pays 70% of the reference plan premium.
- Short and Long-term disability, basic life insurance, and ad&d coverage of which Beekeeper Group pays 100% of the premium.
- 401(k) retirement plan which Beekeeper Group matches 100% on the dollar through 5%.
- Health, Transportation, and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs).
- Yearly vacation of 10 days and 5 days of sick leave (including 2 personal days) at full pay, accrued on a monthly basis. Personal leave accrues at a greater rate after three years at the company.
- 13 paid holidays per calendar year, with a 2-hour early release on the day prior.
- Flexible parental leave policy
- Internal training in addition to $500 off-site education and membership budget
- Bring Your Own Device mobile phone program with $50 per month reimbursement.
