Junior Associate, Media Relations

Junior Associate, Media Relations

Weber Shandwick is looking for an Junior Associate, Media Relations to join our passionate, fun, and driven team focused on supporting clients in terms of media relations for new product launches, events, speaking opps/awards, and issues management.

What You Will Be Doing

• Provide day-to-day support to the team and client
• Develop a strong understanding of the client’s business and target audience
• Stay current on new and existing media coverage
• Assist with ongoing reporting, research and monitoring projects for the client
• Monitor media outlets to understand industry issues that directly and indirectly affect the client
• Analyze and distill meaningful insights from media coverage
• Support creative ideation on a consistent basis 
• Support the wider team on client asks, which could include support for corporate

What You Will Bring:

• Excellent oral and written communication
• Media relations skills – evaluating and identifying potential media, building media lists, developing pitches, pitching, monitoring and reporting
• Strong research skills stemming from a media focused curiosity
• Demonstrate a proactive and forward thinking mindset
• Intuitive thinker who asks probing questions and anticipates and addresses needs
• Sound business and professional ethics

Additional Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• PR agency/journalism internship experience
• Available to work a full-time schedule
• Professional demeanor
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Resourceful and effective problem solver

The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including: 

• Medical 
• Dental 
• Vision 
• 401k (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Employee Family Leave
• Family Building Benefit 

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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