Closing date: 1st November 2024
Salary: £30,000
Contract: Full-time role to start as soon as possible
Hours: Account Executives start at 8am to carry out daily news monitoring and finish at 4pm on alternating days. On the day you are not doing monitoring, you can choose to work 9-5pm.
Location: London office (Southbank) and home working
Bring your communications experience and passion for the environment to this award-winning agency!
We're an award-winning public affairs, strategy, and communications agency. We help our clients advocate for a net zero and nature positive world by providing insightful policy advice, delivering impactful campaigns, and building collaborative relationships.
We are uniquely positioned at the intersection of the environment movement, politics, and media. We work across a wide range of environmental and sustainability topics, including nature restoration, ocean conservation, renewable energy deployment and low-carbon technology development, providing evidence-based and results-driven solutions to create positive change. Dedicated to our clients, our close-knit team, with strong connections across government, civil society, and business, are passionate about our impact and thoughtful about our approach.
The Account Executive plays a critical role in supporting the Seahorse team and clients by keeping abreast of current affairs, policy, and political developments related to Seahorse's work. You will carry out daily morning monitoring that is shared with the team and used for client updates. You will also have a key responsibility for helping deliver client work, including through tasks like drafting agenda and actions notes for meetings, producing briefings, and writing press releases. Further, the Account Executive has a key play in Seahorse's administration and digital marketing, such as drafting and posting social media content.
The role is well suited to a strong communicator, with a passion for delivering meaningful change for the environment. You'll have a willingness to learn and ability to show initiative. You should feel comfortable juggling different topics and priorities and have an enthusiasm for research and getting to grips with developments across a variety of issues.
Responsibilities
- Half of this role will be focused on monitoring parliamentary news as well as events and media coverage and reporting findings to the team and clients, and Seahorse digital marketing.
- The other half will be spent supporting client accounts and Seahorse with research and writing, including press releases, briefings, and reports.
- Tasks within these responsibilities include:
- Contributing to developing new business and creative pitches.
- Attending events on behalf of clients (where appropriate).
- Working alongside the other Account Executive to drive Seahorse's social content planning and to produce content across X, Blue Sky, and LinkedIn.
- Helping with general Seahorse administration, such as marketing materials, website content and maintaining contact databases.
Knowledge, skills and experience
Essential
- Previous working in the communications sector with experience of client delivery.
- PR and social media experience.
- Strong passion and enthusiasm for a net zero and nature positive world.
- Basic understanding of the environmental and decarbonisation landscape.
- Excellent time management.
- Strong written and verbal communication.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to work as part of a team and show initiative when needed.
Desirable
- Experience of working with political, media and environmental stakeholders
- Strong understanding of the UK's political system
- Experience working in the environment sector
Benefits
The role offers benefits including 3 cause days, bike and travel loans, a discretionary bonus at the end of the financial year and flexibility to work abroad for four weeks per year.
Application process:
- Submit your CV and cover letter
- If successful, first interview and written test
- If successful, final interview
Please submit your CV and a short cover letter to Tatiana Yates by clicking the 'Apply' button. Please get in touch with any questions in advance of submitting your application.
We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the environment and communications sectors.
Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.