RH Strategic is a well-established public relations agency seeking a Public Relations Specialist to join their growing team. The role involves supporting media outreach, content development, and cultivating relationships with industry reporters to create earned media opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Support day-to-day account work, including media list management and oversight, media strategy and outreach, tracking and reporting, event planning, and campaign coordination
- Monitor news cycles and propose ideas to insert clients into the narrative
- Draft high-quality communications materials
- Own award and speaking programs, including tracking, client communication, and content development
- Cultivate relationships with industry reporters that lead to earned media opportunities
Skills
- 1-2 years of PR experience (can include 3-6 months of PR agency internship/fellowship)
- Ability to meet and or exceed deadlines and prioritize assignments
- Ability to communicate succinctly via email and over the phone with media targets in print, online, and broadcast mediums
- Experience owning events, editorial calendar, speaking, and awards programs
- Ability to comprehend the client's business, issues, and competitive environments, and contribute to storytelling opportunities
- Experience owning projects from concept to completion and regularly reporting to teams and account managers
- Ability to take feedback and apply it to future work and possess a natural curiosity and a desire to grow
- Must be a proactive communicator, detail-oriented, have strong spelling and grammar skills, and understand AP Style
- Exposure to client communication and some media counsel
- Experience in digital, paid, content, social, and analytics
Benefits
- 100% paid base premium for the employee’s medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurances.
- $100 per month.
- 16 days of annual PTO, 12 firm holidays, 1 floating day off, and 1 paid day of service.
- 401(k) plan with automatic, fully vested match.
- Professional development and wellness.
Company Overview
Raffetto Herman Strategic Communications is a PR firm based serving companies in the technology, healthcare & public sector markets. It was founded in 2007, and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is http://www.rhstrategic.com.