Account Executive, Higher Education

BerlinRosen•New York, NY

3h•$65,000 - $80,000•Hybrid

About The Position

BerlinRosen is seeking an Account Executive to join our Higher Education team. This role involves managing daily client relations, executing project deliverables, supporting junior staff, and conceptualizing strategies, pitches, and media placements. The Account Executive will anticipate client needs, assess team approaches, and collaborate with client leads and internal staff, managing upwards and downwards, delegating to peers and junior staff, and developing strategy with senior leaders. This is an opportunity for someone passionate about higher education to elevate the stories of institutions and lead client work that advances their goals. The role is based in our New York, N.Y. or Washington, D.C. office on a hybrid basis, requiring 3 days per week in the office.

Requirements

2–3 years of experience in communications, including experience in-house at companies, nonprofits or higher education institutions, or within media or journalism; PR agency experience preferred.
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.

Responsibilities

Drive media relations pitching engine; developing creative pitch angles, building media lists, and conducting outreach to and maintaining relationships with key reporters.
Support the creation of strategy by providing regular creative ideas for clients to engage audiences across owned, paid and earned media channels.
Drive day-to-day client deliverables, managing up and down to ensure team alignment while proactively surfacing new ideas and opportunities for our clients.
Manage media monitoring and rapid response across your accounts.
Write and edit persuasive external and internal materials, including strategy decks, messaging, op-eds, social and web copy.
Supports day-to-day communications with clients, including analyzing press coverage and writing regular progress reports.
Manage workstreams across multiple accounts.