Due to the rapid growth in its corporate advisory business, Acuitas Communications is now looking to appoint an accomplished and experienced consultant with a solid track record of achievement in the field of strategic communications and public affairs.

Acuitas is a fast growing strategic communications consultancy focused on corporate and financial communications, and political advisory work.

This role would suit a second jobber with a proven track record of media handling, ideally in a corporate or agency context, with possible prior experience in the media, the City, or in Parliament. 

Responsibilities

Your role will require you to:

• Conduct confident and pro-active day-to day contact with clients;
• Build upon an ideally pre-existing knowledge and understanding of strategic communications and deploy it in support of the business, its clients and prospects;
• Play an important role in ensuring the commercial relationship with relevant clients is managed in an efficient and professional manner;
• Line-manage junior team members;
• Produce written papers and briefing notes quickly, to a professional standard, for internal and client consumption;
• Develop your own new business ideas, prospects and opportunities;
• Continuously build and refresh your own professional networks;
• Provide effective and pro-active support to colleagues in respect of new business getting activities and initiatives; and
• Support or be responsible for event management preparations and party conference planning work.

Requirements (personal)

The role would be like likely to suit someone with the following skills and experience:

• A graduate with a good class of degree (2:1 or above);
• Experience in a corporate comms or financial PR agency, in a larger corporate in-house environment or in Parliament;
• Background, exposure to and aptitude for media engagement;
• A good, pro-active networker;
• An appetite and aptitude for learning about new sectors and issues at speed;
• A strong commercial sense and a current and sophisticated interest in a range of business sectors and issues;
• A total commitment to succeed, balanced by a commitment to act in a collegiate way, as part of a closely-knit team;
• Excellent IT skills – MO skills and experienced with social media.