Primary responsibilities
Assisting with the management of client relationships, campaigns and projects, delivering results and working with/reporting to a senior team member across each client relationship or project. Responsible for:
- Day-to-day management of projects and client care
- Managing workloads proactively
- Tracking and updating internal and external progress on projects
- Providing internal and external client reports and meeting minutes
- Offering clear and concise briefings
- Clearly briefing and working with other team members
- Ability to work unaided where required
- Ability to contribute to client meetings and ensure that they are productive and well documented
- A working knowledge of the main social media platforms for business
- Undertaking tasks to a consistently high standard with high attention to detail
- Any other duties as reasonably required by colleagues/SMT (in consultation with the line manager)
Primary characteristics and behaviours
- Good attention to detail and commercial awareness
- Strong writing skills covering a range of scenarios – emails, letters to officials, briefings
- A positive attitude, working well under pressure whilst managing a workload effectively
- Enthusiasm to develop new skills and knowledge
- Proactivity in helping other team members and creating new opportunities
- Being a team player
- Confidence in presenting, managing up and briefing clients
- Willingness to go above and beyond
Core knowledge
- Knowledge and interest in parliamentary procedures and UK politics (knowledge of EU politics and procedures is desired, but not required)
- Understanding of the the geopolitical landscape and UK media
- Working knowledge of Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and other systems used by CGG
Secondary duties and capabilities
- Social media management across platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, X and YouTube – to include content creation, curation and commissioning, content scheduling, devising and maintaining social media guidelines, and measurement and evaluation against KPIs
- Website design and build
- Scripting, storyboarding, shooting, editing and post-production of video
- Graphic design
- Moderating focus groups
- Structuring qualitative and quantitative research proposals
- Media relations, including writing op-eds, features, news releases, ghostwritten articles etc.
- Crisis communications and proactive reputation management
- Event planning and management
- Sponsorship management
- Copywriting
- Proficiency in privacy policies, GDPR compliance and data management
- Selling additional services, such as sponsorships for PLGs, the UCanvass App and other products and services, such as College Green Group creates and markets from time to time
- Supporting and training other team members in order to upskill the wider team (e.g. providing training on Elementor/WordPress)
- Volunteer management and motivation
- Strong presentation skills
- Ability to use paid social media (Google Adwords, Facebook, other pay-per-click) including targeting, budget management and reporting
- Data analytics skills
Please send your CV, a cover letter (including three countries you find interesting based on their history / politics / etc) and a one page briefing giving an overview of one of these countries to