Description:
Instinctif Partners is a leading public relations and public affairs consultancy in Ireland. Working with local and international companies, our role is to identify the trends, direction, and likely outcomes of various legislative and political initiatives in Ireland and to act on these initiatives in collaboration with our clients.
Working across a range of sectors we deliver a comprehensive service offering that includes public relations and digital campaigns, profile-raising activities, engagement, strategic information services, advice, policy analysis and coalition building.
Role Overview
We are looking for a talented, ambitious and career driven Account Executive to support our creative public relations and communications work. This position is perfect for an energetic, enthusiastic, and savvy individual with a ‘can do’ attitude who is interested in building a career in public relations and public affairs in a workplace that will help you grow and learn.
The role will entail working as part of our expanding Dublin team across a range of client accounts and industries, driving client media relations and digital programmes as well as assisting on wider day-to-day work.
Responsibilities
- Researching, drafting, and issuing press releases to news media and pitching stories to news journalists.
- Monitoring news media and social media for new opportunities for client profile raising and making strategic recommendations on the same to senior colleagues.
- Assisting with media queries and develop positive relationships with media contacts.
- Day-to-day assistance across client digital activity, including developing and activating social media campaigns, managing paid social strategies, building digital stakeholder engagement, and providing evaluation and measurement of the same.
- Supporting the development of overall public relations and communications programmes for clients.
- Supporting the smooth day-to-day running of several accounts including administration, client handling and meetings.
- Drafting of other written materials including reports and presentation materials.
- Providing support to drive new and existing business.
- Conducting new business research and leveraging your knowledge to present insightful analysis.
Requirements
- A relevant 3rd level qualification (e.g. public relations, communications, journalism, digital marketing).
- At least 6-12 months experience in a PR agency or in-house environment is essential.
- A thorough understanding of the Irish media landscape, with a strong eye for media relations opportunities and proven ability of pitching news stories to journalists.
- Excellent written communications skills with a flair for creative thinking and developing engaging news angles.
- Comprehensive knowledge of social media, content creation and creative digital campaign development.
- Basic experience with graphic design apps e.g. Photoshop, Canva etc.
- A basic understanding of the Irish public affairs landscape and legislative process.
- Proven ability to work well as part of a team but also to use own initiative, with superb attention to detail.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills, including an ability to prioritise and meet deadlines.