Account Executive, Higher Education

The role

You will maintain daily client relations and execute day-to-day project deliverables for higher education clients. You will also support and lead junior staff while conceptualizing strategies, pitches, and media placements.

What you will do

• Drive media relations pitching engine
• Develop creative pitch angles, build media lists, and conduct outreach to reporters
• Support strategy creation with creative ideas for owned, paid, and earned media channels
• Drive day-to-day client deliverables and manage team alignment
• Manage media monitoring and rapid response
• Write and edit strategy decks, messaging, op-eds, social and web copy
• Support communications with clients including analyzing press coverage and writing progress reports
• Manage workstreams across multiple accounts

Required qualifications

• 2–3 years of experience in communications, including experience in-house at companies, nonprofits or higher education institutions, or within media or journalism
• Familiarity with and interest in the higher education landscape
• Ability to handle multiple assignments at once, work quickly and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrated relationships with reporters and strong news sense
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing, with varying levels of staff, clients and media
• Strong attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with a team to meet group objectives
• Proficiency in Google and Microsoft software suites

Nice to have

• PR agency experience

About the company

Orchestra is a strategic communications and marketing company made up of leading firms including BerlinRosen, Civitas Public Affairs Group, Derris, Glen Echo Group, Inkhouse, M18, Message Lab, Onward and Small Girls PR. BerlinRosen's Higher Education team sits within Orchestra's Tech & Corporate practice.