Vice President, Public Affairs

Weber Shandwick is seeking a spring intern to work across major consumer brands. This is a full-time (40 hours/week), paid internship that will start in January 2025. This role is hybrid out of our NYC office.

The Essentials

• Thinking: Intellectual curiosity and creativity is a must
• Storytelling: Understand the elements that make a story exciting and how to highlight them in what you read in the press and what you see on social media
• Communication: Speak, write and edit succinctly and compellingly
• Management: Meet deadlines, put out fires and multi-task. Work fast, and work well
• Interpersonal: Play nice, whether it’s in a team, with a team or independently
• Technical: Know Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook. Media databases and social tracking tools are a bonus (examples: Cision, Muckrack)
• Detail-Oriented: Whether it’s a media list or a recap report, attention to detail and a commitment to delivering clear and precise work is essential
• Spark: Understand what sets you apart

What You Will Be Doing

• Research: Analyze brands using various resources, thoughtful and detailed research helps our bring ideas and plans to life
• Engage: Share big ideas in brainstorms and with teams
• Plan: Assist in event coordination and logistics 
• Create: Craft written communications including media materials, from briefing books to media pitches
• Hustle: Pitch stories to media, develop media lists, track placements, etc.
• Monitor: Track brands in traditional online and social media during one of the biggest sporting events of the year. Previous campaign reporting experience is a plus
• Organization: Organize and maintain product closet, check inventory, order product/shipping supplies
• Product send outs: Compile various product mailers and coordinate product shipments

What We Are Looking For

• Someone who has an interest in, and enthusiasm for public relations and consumer brands
• Able to work in a dynamic and fast-paced agency environment
• Strong writing skills and understanding of the media landscape
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent time management skills
• Go-getter and proactive mindset – you’re willing to go above and beyond your daily tasks
• A contributing member of the team

Requirements:

• The ideal candidate must be a college graduate by the start of the internship or have demonstrated transferrable skills
• Must be available to work 40 hours a week starting January 2025

NYC Salary range: $20.00 – $20.00

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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We’re seeking a Senior Associate, Community Management, to join our team in Detroit. The Senior Associate operates efficiently within a group, executes assigned tasks independently, and can handle multiple projects/clients at a time.

This individual will be responsible for supporting General Motor’s social business. Primary day-to-day responsibilities include monitoring owned social pages and on-going community engagement and management. Tangentially, the candidate is required to conduct social media research and participate in creative brainstorms for social content. The candidate must have strong writing skills and story-telling instincts; superlative spelling skills (a command of AP style preferred), creative thinking and problem-solving skills. They must have a solid grasp of basic social media tools. The ideal candidate has experience executing digital engagements in a PR, social or advertising agency setting and/or has experience on the client side. A command of the respective channels’ tone and voice is required. A curiosity about targeted customers, digital trends, the business priorities of our clients and what the competition is doing rounds out our ideal candidate.

In today’s always-on-line world, Community Management is a critical communications tool and we’re looking for the right candidate to support this client and our agency team. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Community Management: monitoring of owned social channels using social media tools to assign, and appropriately evaluate engagements from community 
• Remain current on cultural trends and technology while looking for opportunities to incorporate the Brand into conversations  
• Identify and escalate trending social topics or content to account and strategy teams 
• Update status documents and project trackers on a regular basis 
• Communicate to client, account teams and creative teams on project developments, timelines and results 
• Liaison between a cross-functional project team, which includes Creative and Analytics 
• Conduct social media research 
• Participate in agency brainstorms 
• Post content across social media platforms   
• Manage fan surprise and delight identification, outreach and gifting process

QUALIFICATIONS:  

• Bachelor’s Degree; 2-3 years related professional experience 
• Exceptional writing skills
• Storytelling aptitude
• Strong analytical skills 
• Experience and knowledge in Digital Marketing/Social Media Management is required, corporate communication experience a bonus
• Experience working with project managers and creatives
• Strong oral and written communication skills 

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:  

• Be a demonstrated self-starter and work well within a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary team 
• Willingness to learn the automotive industry; and the specifics of this part of the business: corporate communications
• Have excellent organization and time management skills 
• Have a passion and experience for social media and stay ahead of the curve on industry developments 
• Have very strong written and verbal communications skills 
• Must feel comfortable learning new systems and tools 
• Have community management experience 
• Ability to effectively manage multiple tasks concurrently 
• Ability to assign priorities and meet due dates  

SKILLS/PLATFORMS:

• Microsoft Office (experience supporting the development of presentations) 
• Social media platforms and community management tools including but not limited to TikTok, Meta, YouTube, Google Analytics, Khoros, Opal, Brandwatch

The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Employee Family Leave
• Family Building Benefit

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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Powell Tate – the specialty public affairs and corporate issues unit of Weber Shandwick, a leading global communications and engagement agency – is currently seeking a Senior Associate to join its Public Affairs team in the Washington DC area, with particular emphasis on issues management and integrated media.

Candidates will ideally have strong public affairs and integrated media experience, a passion for working across a wide variety of accounts and work streams, and the ability to anticipate client and team needs, develop content and materials, create messaging, and conduct media outreach. The ideal candidate has legislative, and/or public affairs agency experience, at the state or federal level.

Candidates must be driven, poised and team-oriented. They will have an understanding of and interest in the U.S. political landscape , as well as the intersection of earned, paid, and owned media. They will also be fluent in digital strategy and social media. A demonstrated ability to learn issues quickly and communicate effectively with internal and external audiences is required.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and manage integrated public affairs and issues management campaigns on behalf of corporate and trade association clients, with an emphasis on highly-regulated industries
• Leverage communications tactics to shape the policy environment and educate lawmakers about legislative proposals
• Serve as a day-to-day contact for clients and provide ongoing counsel and strategic insights
• Contribute to account teams on a day-to-day basis, leading key projects and work streams
• Deploy well-honed media relations skills, and cultivate/maintain relationships with reporters, influencers, and other media stakeholders
• Assess and report news coverage, understand the media landscape and identify potential risks to reputation
• Proactively handle client problems and issues quickly and adeptly; actively participate in client meetings and/or calls
• Develop and maintain deep fluency and expertise in relevant external trends impacting the business and its peers

Desired Skills + Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3-5 years related professional experience
• Possess and foster excellent presentation, writing and technical assistance skills
• Strong organization, problem-solving and interpersonal skills, along with a keen attention to detail
• Established proactive and reactive media relations experience
• Ability to manage multiple projects thoroughly and on time
• Ability to collaborate with colleagues at all levels

The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Employee Family Leave
• Family Building Benefit

Washington D.C. Salary range: $59,000 – $65,000

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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