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Geopolitical Account Executive

College Green Group geopolitical account executives (AEs) are reliable, motivated, multi-skilled, client facing team members who (alongside account managers) serve as a point of contact on a day to day basis for our clients, and are responsible to help deliver services and results against briefs and plans. They are focused on delivering tactical work for clients, efficiently and within timeframes and budgets. They ordinarily work across multiple clients and campaigns.

Primary duties and capabilities

Managing client relationships, campaigns and projects on a day to day basis – in line with contractual agreements – adhering to College Green Group values, delivering results and working with/reporting to a senior team member across each client relationship, campaign or project. Responsible for:

  • Managing workloads proactively (including managing up)
  • Helping to manage client expectations
  • Providing internal and external progress updates (which may include updating software/CRM systems, contact/meeting reports, rolling notes, formal updates and presentations)
  • Clearly briefing and working with other team members
  • Demonstrating ability to work unaided where required
  • Ability to contribute to client meetings and ensure that they are productive and clearly documented with action points and timeframes
  • Completing project reports to a high standard
  • A working knowledge of the main social media networks and platforms for business and political campaigns (at present LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and X)
  • Undertaking research tasks to a consistently high standard
  • Taking responsibility for preparing thorough and timely handover notes when going on holiday, and communicating them clearly to relevant team members
  • Any other duties as reasonably required by colleagues (in consultation with line manager and/or SMT)

Primary characteristics and behaviours

  • Good attention to detail
  • Good commercial awareness, including the ability to negotiate with suppliers, budget (and stay to budget), and price services accordingly (and in line with our rate cards)
  • Enthusiasm to learn and develop new skills, competencies and capabilities
  • Proactivity in helping other team members to succeed and in creating opportunities for College Green Group 
  • Demonstrating a desire to be a team player, and to help other colleagues achieve success
  • Commitment to values of professionalism, ownership, truthfulness, comradeship, acumen and growth

Secondary duties and capabilities

(Note: not all team members are expected to have all of these capabilities, but all AEs are expected to have some of these capabilities, and perform some of these duties)

  • Social media management across platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and X – 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
  • Knowledge of policies such as GDPR compliance
  • Selling additional services, such as sponsorships for PLGs and other products or services
  • Supporting and training other team members in order to upskill the wider team (e.g. providing training on Elementor/WordPress)
  • Volunteer management and motivation in campaigns
  • Presentation skills
  • Ability to use paid social media (Google Adwords, Facebook, other pay-per-click) including targeting, budget management and reporting
  • Data analytics skills
  • Responsible and ethical use of AI tools 

Core knowledge

  • Understanding of the British political and media landscape, including the UK Parliament and the broader geopolitical environment
  • EU politics and procedures (desired but not required)
  • Working knowledge of Google Docs and other systems and platforms used by CGG

Job details

  • Salary: £31,000 per annum
  • This role is based five days a week in our Westminster office 

Benefits

  • 25 days annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to 30 days
  • Working from abroad policy
  • Unpaid leave policy
  • Professional development budgets
  • Additional personal development budget of £1,000 for ad hoc independent learning unrelated to the requirements of the role
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Travel loan scheme
  • Health insurance
  • Enhanced employer pension contributions (matched up to 7%)
  • Employee referral bonus
  • Regular team socials including team trip away
  • Sponsorships (for applicants not from UK)
  • CIPR membership
  • Central London location with cooking facilities
  • Showering facilities and off street bike storage

We recognise that talent comes in many forms. Even if you don’t tick every single box above but have the drive and potential to succeed, we encourage you to apply. 

To apply, please send your CV and cover letter  to frances.ingram@collegegreengroup.com by the end of the day on Monday 15th June 2026.