Vice President / Media Relations Officer

Immediate need for a talented Vice President /  Media Relations Officer. This is a 06+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in New York, NY ,Jersey City, NJ (Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID: 25-83515

Pay Range: $117 - $121/hour.  Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Promotes organisation 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 organization’s inclusion in relevant articles for target publications
• Assists in managing awards process in the US
• Assists in media training for executives, business managers, research teams economists and analysts
• Complies with all internal and external rules and regulations as they pertain to organization
• 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

Key Requirements and Technology Experience: 

• Key Skills; Media Relations/ Corporate Communications
• Media Strategy/ Strategic Communications
• Financial Services/ Capital Markets/ Investment Banking
• 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
• Project management experience
• Demonstrates an ability to be innovative and a strategic thinker
• 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
•  Bachelor’s degree

Our client is a leading banking and financial services Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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