Senior Manager Social Impact (12 Month FTC)

At The Weber Shandwick Collective, you are welcomed, valued and empowered to grow. We create cultural value and help brands navigate the ever-changing age of earned: an age where consumers actively say no to advertising; an age where everyone is an influencer that can make or break your brand; an age where content can be turned into commercial opportunity. Our talented team builds brands by finding connection points in the real world. We energise the right mix of talent, using the right platforms and latest technology to choreograph stories that make a real and meaningful impact for some of the world’s leading brands and businesses.

We earn affection, attention, affinity and purchase by delivering value to people around the world, with deep specialisms across food & drink, travel & tourism, consumer tech, consumer health, social impact, automotive, sports sponsorship, entertainment & lifestyle and energy.

The role involves working on a portfolio of impactful global organisations, executing integrated campaigns involving strategy, earned media, creative, social and digital. The candidate will lead the day-to-day running of projects, provide counsel, support in the development of campaign and media strategies, manage budgets, and contribute to the strong execution of activities.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following key skills and attributes:

• Client and Work
  • Develop and draft media strategies, press releases, reactive media statements, talking points, FAQs, memos, crisis plans, and other deliverables as needed.
  • Oversee and execute proactive media outreach and reactive media relations strategies as needed.
  • Drive development of tactical plans, translating strategies into tactics, ensuring deliverables align with strategies.
  • Lead/manage multiple integrated work streams and partner with clients to deliver on time/on budget work plans with minimal supervision on complex global Social Impact issues.
  • Serve as the day-to-day client contact flagging, triaging and managing client issues as they arise.
  • Oversee project management, maintaining overall account tracker and other trackers as needed.
  • Proactively support and suggest ideas and improvements to exceed client expectations by leveraging sector knowledge/experience.
• Self Leadership and Talent Management
  • Demonstrate creative problem solving and teamwork.
  • Build and lead productive relationships internally, with interagency teams, and a diverse array of agency colleagues.
• Growth and Business Development
  • Participate in brainstorms and planning.
  • Support new business pitch content creation and organic business growth efforts.
  • Hone presentation skills, participating in pitches when possible.
• Business Acumen
  • Develop budgets, support analysis of budget and time entry, and account invoicing.
  • Assist in financial management for clients, including development of invoices and activity reports to maintain profitability of engagements.

To be considered for this role, you must have experience delivering integrated communications strategies across topics such as global health, development, humanitarian and/or environmental issues.

Ideal Experience:

• A deep interest in international issues, whether global health, development, climate, environment or human rights.
• Fluency in media relations with an instinctive understanding of what makes a good story and how to shape stories from our clients’ activities.
• Strong awareness of media in top tier and specialist UK/global/African media and an understanding of how journalists operate.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, particularly the ability to digest complex information and turn it into crisp, compelling written copy.
• Mastery in copywriting a range of external and media materials including press releases, key message documents, pitches, social media content, etc.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment, juggling multiple projects and deadlines, adapting approaches when the needs of clients change.
• Experience working with multiple disciplines and specialists to deliver integrated campaigns.
• Strong presentation skills and a desire to be involved in new business pitching.
• A proactive approach to identifying opportunities for the client, practice and team.
• Attentive to detail and delivery of high-quality work.
• Fluency in Microsoft programmes and digital/social media platforms, tools and solutions.
• Positive, problem-solving attitude.
• Ambitious with an entrepreneurial streak.

Maybe you’ve worked in community organising, campaigning or journalism rather than PR or agency. If you bring sharp strategic thinking, curiosity and real-world insight, we want to hear from you especially if you deeply understand media & storytelling, have a strong interest in global social justice and are excited by this role.

Note from the Talent Team: At Weber Shandwick we are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.