Media Relations Specialist Job at Confidential in New York

Base pay range

$96.00/hr - $119.00/hr

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Overview

Maternity Cover, Vice President / Media Relations Officer

CIB Functions – Marketing & Communications – External Communications

Business Overview

The Marketing and Communications group handles all marketing and communications. The various functions of this group include corporate events, sponsorships, and external and internal communications.

Responsibilities

• Promotes the bank via print, broadcast, radio and podcasts, and builds relationships with reporters in these areas
• Arranges and coordinates interviews for key spokespeople with TV and streaming news channels in North America and other locations as needed, a strength in the US
• Provides assistance / help to press relations or communications managers in Brazil, Hispanic Latam, and Canada as well as international offices
• Writes and distributes press releases and media communiques for Bank appointments, deals and other news
• Organizes meetings with business line executives and their counterparties at key financial media
• Tracks editorial calendars to ensure bank' inclusion in relevant articles for target publications
• Assists in managing awards process in the US
• Assists in media training for bank executives, business managers, research teams economists and analysts
• Complies with all internal and external rules and regulations as they pertain to bank
• Monitors and distributes on a daily basis all financial news regarding the firm and its subsidiaries
• Builds and maintains a media list of key contacts in their business lines
• Maintains contracts and renewals for Providers
• Covers for the Director and colleague when needed
• Helps to manage projects with colleague especially reports and databases
• Works on ad hoc projects as needed
• Business line responsibility TBD

Minimum Required Qualifications

• 6 (+) years’ experience in media relations, preferably in the buy-side or sell-side
• Excellent network and relationships with the media
• Strong interpersonal skills, including ability to negotiate and influence others both internally and externally, as well as arrange meetings with Spokespeople and press
• Demonstrates an ability to be innovative and a strategic thinker
• Able to: Anticipate the impact of various situations and transactions and proactively handle
• Work efficiently in a fast paced and challenging environment
• Network transversally across the organization as required and maintain high standards of professionalism in all dealings with team members and external clients
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work well independently and within a team
• Technical: Microsoft Word; Power Point; Excel; social media; news retrieval systems

Additional Details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Temporary
• Job function: Marketing and Public Relations
• Industries: Banking, Financial Services, and Investment Management

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