Junior Public Relations Specialist
ICF
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Reston • Maryland, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $80,743 - $137,263 per year
Job Level
Junior
About the role
- Provide strategic guidance and support to senior external affairs officials and leadership on operational efficiencies, strategic messaging, and staffing at external engagement events
- Provide media relations support to the press operations team
- Collaborate with colleagues to create external communications plans that align with and complement vertical plans and bolster the public’s understanding of cyber and infrastructure security threats
- Produce impactful monitoring and metrics analysis reports and contribute recommendations that improve the effectiveness of rapid response and planning communication roll-outs
- Serve as a trusted liaison between office leadership and agency leadership
- Support travel-related activities and senior leadership support and assist high-level government communications operations
Requirements
- Ability to secure a public trust security clearance
- BS/BA in Marketing, PR, Journalism, or related field
- Minimum of five (5) years of demonstrated experience: Assisting in the research, planning, and strategic development of a comprehensive public and external affairs activities
- Minimum of five (5) years of demonstrated experience: Working with client and project team members
- Minimum of five (5) years of demonstrated experience: Having Chief of Staff-like skills, such as providing operational advice and support to a senior executive
- Minimum of five (5) years of demonstrated experience: Knowledge of public relations, public affairs and integrated media
- Excellent oral communication skills (preferred)
- Ability to predict and mitigate problems or conflicts (preferred)
- Strong organizational abilities (preferred)
- PR agency, journalism, corporate or government agency experience preferred
- Self-starter, with ability to independently manage tasks and handle multiple priorities (preferred)
Benefits
- Hybrid telework arrangement
- Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process
- Equal opportunity employer
- Benefit offerings included in the Transparency in (Benefits) Coverage Act
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
public relationspublic affairsmedia relationsstrategic messagingmetrics analysiscommunications planningcyber securityinfrastructure securityoperational efficienciesstaffing
Soft skills
oral communicationorganizational abilitiesproblem predictionconflict mitigationindependent task managementmulti-priority handlingstrategic developmentcollaborationliaison skillsself-starter
Certifications
public trust security clearance