Location
New York NY
Position Id
201018
Job Type
Full-Time Regular

VP Digital/Social Financial Communications

Qualifications:

8+ years of experience in an advisory position; digital and social media experience preferred with an understanding of Financial terminology

  • Experience leveraging and measuring efforts on social media platforms to achieve business objectives, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other new and emerging media.
  • Working knowledge of digital tools including a monitoring / analytics system (such as Radian6, Sysomos, Sprinklr or Spredfast; Facebook and Google analytics).
  • Experience with design programs preferred, but not required (Adobe, Photoshop, InDesign).
  • Robust personal experience with social media a plus, but not required (e.g. a blog, Twitter account, etc.).
  • Experience managing up and down on teams of five or more people.
  • Ability to operate in fast pace, client service environment
  • Exceptional research, writing and communication skills.
  • Ability to multitask and prioritize.
  • Passionate interest in financial and business issues.
  • Problem-solving skills and detail orientation
  • Creative and Self-motivated.
  • Ability to exhibit discretion with confidential client matters.

Responsibilities:

Client Contribution & Handling

  • Demonstrate deep knowledge of the clients’ business and strategic communications issues.
  • Draw on digital expertise when advising clients; draws on support from more seasoned experts as needed.
  • Project manage workflow, acts as the account driver on teams from digital perspective.
  • Manage development of client deliverables and quality control.
  • Navigate media and stakeholder landscapes using these relationships to support client needs.
  • Liaise between the client and internal teams, including the main client-facing team

Communication Skills

  • Write thoughtful, well-structured content; consider audience in style and tone of communications.
  • Express a point of view in a thoughtful manner; able to analyze and distill complex information.
  • Exhibit and exercise discretion.
  • Question and challenge in a constructive way; present unpopular ideas confidently.

Business Development

  • Work collaboratively across all offices to support colleagues.
  • Share thoughtful and creative ideas to extend existing mandates and secure new business.
  • Recognize opportunities to bring in wider expertise from within the firm.
  • Write or contribute to the preparation of pitch documents and letters of engagement.
  • Develop broad based networks across media, advisory, investor, regulatory, NGO and other communities

Teams

  • Engage team members in a positive and productive manner; take an active interest in team members’ development; impart lessons learned.
  • Serve as a role model and mentor to team members; readily provide assistance and support.
  • Proactively assume additional responsibility.
  • Share networks, creating opportunities for junior and senior colleagues to develop their own relationships.

About the Agency:

We help clients deal with challenges that can affect their valuation, corporate reputation or ability to achieve business objectives by developing strategies to best communicate both externally (to investors, the media and other stakeholders) and internally (to current and prospective employees).

Our agency culture is dynamic, team-based and meritocratic with “open office” environments where senior and junior colleagues sit side by side. This creates an environment in which all team members will see, hear, and take part in all aspects of the firm’s business.