Camarco London is hiring a Consultant to join its digital team.
We are a financial communications consultancy, owned by APCO, which protects and promotes its clients’ reputations, helping them to communicate with their stakeholders, and enabling them to meet their business and social objectives and enhance their valuations.
In a world where businesses need to consider multiple stakeholders, our multi-disciplined, holistic approach to communications helps our clients, which include companies in the FTSE100, FTSE250, multi-national, European listed and private companies, navigate the complex stakeholder issues and risks of today and of tomorrow.
The Role
As a Consultant at Camarco, you will play a supporting role on a range of client accounts and exciting briefs, reporting to the Head of Digital. You are adding value through your online communication know-how, consultancy, copywriting, account management, and research skills - for both our clients and Camarco.
This role offers growth opportunities and exposure to a wide range of sectors and individuals, paving the way for leadership in the communications field. You will also enjoy great scope to work on joint projects with APCO colleagues, in the UK and beyond.
Responsibilities and duties
Consultancy, copywriting and content strategy (60%)
- Providing regular strategic counsel to clients, prospects and colleagues (written and verbal)
- Research into key client themes and industry/communications trends to benefit our clients
- Produce data-led and insight-driven reports and presentations for clients and prospects to aid strategic decision making
- Deliver insight into what forms part of engaging and effective stakeholder communications, particularly online
Account/client management (20%)
- Be the first point of contact for clients, escalating and looping in the wider team as and where required
- Liaise with internal client teams to ensure that we meet account and client expectations
- Draft agendas and minutes for meetings and keep track of actions for our team and the client for each account
- Draft meeting materials such as presentations to bring together activities and progress across internal teams for presentation to the client
Administration (20%)
- Document key client feedback and decisions, to aid clients and colleagues
- Attend business development meetings in order to draft and/or contribute to credentials, proposals, request for proposal (RFP) responses and other business development activities including budget proposals
- Support the execution of marketing materials, including internal events such as lunch & learns and external events such as conferences and networking
Characteristics
- Knowledgeable: understanding of and interest in the business landscape and online communication trends to influence and shape advice provided to clients, prospects and colleagues
- Diligent and detail-oriented: you need to be able to work efficiently and accurately, simplify complex topics and have a keen eye for detail
- Personable: you will need to be client-facing and a key point of contact for colleagues – being able to gel and establish rapport with these groups is an important element of the role, as you will work with a variety of integrated teams within the firm
- Creative and curious: eager to embrace and explore new ideas and thinking, while possessing a knowledge, understanding and experience of content formats and techniques which resonate well online
- Forward-thinking: you need to be able to see opportunities for improvement in process, collaboration, deliverables and client service to work on together with the team
Qualifications and skills
- Experience: minimum of 4-5 years in an online communications role
- Digital proficiency and passion: understanding, experience of interest in social media, corporate websites and online communication (ideation, strategy, content creation, measurement, platforms, tools and trends) are essential elements of this role
- Copywriting: a part of your role fluency in writing effectively for corporates is essential; attention to detail for grammar but also for accuracy is a mandatory requirement
- Project management and direction: working on a mix of retained and project accounts, you will need strong project management and organisational skills; in particular an ability to think ahead on each project to anticipate next steps and deliverables is essential, while managing internal (both junior and senior) and external stakeholders
- Time management: working across multiple accounts, you will need strong time management to juggle conflicting demands on your time and an ability to rapidly prioritise and escalate as required
- Presentation: a capable speaker, able to confidently deliver insight and one’s point of view to aid and influence colleagues and clients
- Networking and business development: possessing a range of contacts within the digital and corporate communications space, with an interest in growing your network in the long-term (desirable but not essential)
Job Info
- Job Identification 919
- Job Category Consulting
- Posting Date 08/14/2024, 10:56 AM
- Locations 40 Strand, London, WC2N 5RW, GB
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