Account Executive, Higher Education

The role

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

What you will do

• Drive media relations pitching engine
• Develop creative pitch angles and build media lists
• Conduct outreach and maintain relationships with key reporters
• Support the creation of strategy for owned, paid and earned media channels
• Drive day-to-day client deliverables
• Manage media monitoring and rapid response
• Write and edit strategy decks, messaging, op-eds, social and web copy
• Support day-to-day communications with clients
• Analyze press coverage and write regular 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 preferred

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.