Consultant, Corporate Communications + Advisory

Hill+Knowlton Strategies is looking for a Consultant to join our dynamic Corporate Communications + Advisory team in Toronto. This represents an exciting opportunity to work with a diverse set of financial, professional services and industrial clients.

The ideal candidate is an ambitious communications professional who can manage integrated communications campaigns and has an excellent track record of providing smart client counsel and landing earned media results for their clients.

We are looking for incredible talent, great attitude, energy, and passion for H+K and our clients. If this sounds like you, we’d love to talk further!

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Draft written communications materials and control the quality of content created by others, such as pitches, advisories and news releases.
• Manage ongoing measurement, tracking and reporting on client activities and results, flagging relevant information to the account team and client.
• Proactively support new business development activities by identifying opportunities to expand business with current clients, promoting H+K services and specialties to existing clients, contributing research, analysis, and content to new business proposals, and participating in pitches.
• Ensure that communication plans incorporate consistent strategies, realistic objectives, and accurate timelines.
• Apply project management skills to deliver campaigns successfully (e.g., develop and implement critical paths/work back plans to meet client deadlines and provide oversight of other team members.)
• Manage earned media outreach, leading the development of story angles, identifying media targets, effectively pitching stories, and coordinating interviews.
• Create and contribute to high-impact corporate communications campaigns for clients, including national and regional campaigns for large brands.
• Leverage digital and social marketing expertise, including content development, management of creative asset development, response plans, and community management.

What you'll need to get here:

• True team player with a can-do mindset.
• Proven ability to pitch reporters (online, print, and broadcast.)
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills that can be applied across various platforms.
• Natural curiosity and genuine passion for storytelling.
• Ability to distill technical information and develop audience-appropriate content.
• 4+ years’ experience in communications roles.
• Experience delivering public relations programs to achieve a client’s program objectives, involving several activities such as media relations, stakeholder engagement, campaign management, partner activations, social media engagement, event management, materials development, and reporting.
• Demonstrated understanding and experience with social media, digital strategies, and media monitoring tools.
• Post-secondary degree or post-graduate certificate in communications, public relations, journalism, or a similar program, or relevant work experience.
• Creative thinking and problem-solving prowess.

Hill+KnowltonStrategies is dedicated to employment equity, welcomes diversity in the workplace and encourages applications from all qualified applicants. If you require any accommodation during the recruitment process, please reach out to us.

We thank all applicants for their interest; only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

About Us

Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Inc. is an international communications consultancy, providing services to local, multinational, and global clients. H+K operates in more than 70 offices in nearly 40 countries worldwide, as well as an extensive associate network, delivering award-winning campaigns to clients across all sectors and disciplines and with a focus on continued innovation for the industry. Headquartered in New York, the firm is part of WPP, one of the world’s largest communications services groups.

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