Media Relations Coordinator jobs in Illinois

Golin Chicago is looking for a vice president to join our corporate practice and work directly with our executive director of media relations.  

In this role, you will provide media counsel and help manage day-to-day responsibilities on a range of high-profile clients across sectors. You will maintain a detailed level of understanding of your clients, including business, products, markets, leadership and outside influences and be responsible for ensuring that they are telling relevant stories and engaging media audiences that will support their strategic goals.  You will play a key role in the development of team members.

You are a relationship builder and a creative problem solver with many years of experience working with national business and technology media. You add value to any conversation and always have an Agency POV. You can identify and know how to bring great ideas and programs to life.

What you’ll do:

• Serve as senior media lead on corporate accounts, providing seasoned counsel on proactive and reactive media engagement strategies
• Build, maintain and evolve your relationships with corporate and technology media
• Stay current on media best practices, developments in newsrooms, news organizations and new media, and help ensure Golin delivers game-changing ideas and solutions
• Work with teams to manage daily communications and reporting to your clients on industry developments, progress against objectives/plans/tactics – and apply learnings as real-time diagnostics of account activity to address challenges or leverage opportunities
• Develop deep knowledge about and relationships with clients, learning their business and professional preferences
• Understand key social media, paid media and event platforms and how to integrate these with 360 communications campaigns
• Actively contribute to new business pitches with strategy, creative counsel, and presentation support

Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in corporate communications, with a deep background developing and executing corporate reputation programs, including corporate positioning, business media relations and executive communications
• Advanced knowledge of top-tier business and tech media, and well-developed skills in building and maintaining traditional and digital media relationships
• Ability to engage with and counsel senior level decision-makers across the client’s business, including media training, message training, and issues and crisis
• Demonstrated experience working directly with clients on day-to-day activities, managing teams to execute public relations plans effectively, and drafting and implementing strategic corporate communications programs within budget
• Superior writing skills, with the ability to develop and edit high-quality materials such communications plans, fact sheets, news and online media materials, bylined articles, executive correspondence, and presentations

About Golin 

We are a global public relations agency poised and staffing for the needs of today. Through our 60 year history we have redefined the role of PR with best-in-class work that has earned worldwide attention and awards. Representing some of the biggest Fortune One brands, we offer a suite of services from content creation and production, diversity equity & inclusion strategy, influencer marketing, corporate strategy, and public affairs to name a few. To learn more about Golin visit: golin.com.

Salary Range: $120,000 - $219,000

Golin has included the base salary range or hourly rate for this role. Actual compensation offered within the range will depend upon, among other factors: a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience; actual ranges for current or former employees in the role; and market considerations.

Any request to schedule an interview and any legitimate offer of employment will only come from an authorized representative of Golin. We will never require an applicant to provide sensitive personally identifiable information in order to conduct an interview.

Golin is an Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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