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Newington sits within SEC Newgate, an award winning strategic communications firm, which ranks in the Top 30 groups in the world. Our team consists of circa 600 staff, working in 30 offices across 4 continents.

We understand business, politics and the media and how it affects our clients. Our people are professional and creative, with diverse backgrounds and share a commitment to the highest professional standards. Clients choose us to build their reputation, change perceptions and achieve their business objectives.

Our Local Division works with developers, communities and local government across the UK and is at the forefront of ethical stakeholder engagement. As specialists in this field, we help clients to engage with relevant local communities to identify and address their concerns. By developing relationships with key stakeholders and influencers, we minimise risks in the planning process in order to present schemes to planning committees with the best possible chance of receiving planning consent.

As Account Manager, you will:

  • Be graduate level or equivalent;
  • Have extensive knowledge and enthusiasm for business, politics and the media;
  • Have a demonstrable background in politics, policy or communications, ideally with strong existing consultancy and management experience;
  • Have some experience of developing and executing political and corporate communications strategies;
  • Feel comfortable providing strategic counsel to senior clients and thinking on their feet;
  • Be able to demonstrate excellent written and oral communications skills, research and organisational skills;
  • Have exceptional attention to detail;
  • Be a confident presenter, and be able to play a co-ordinating role in a pitch team;
  • Be passionate about working as part of a team and developing junior staff;
  • Have knowledge of planning and local politics;
  • Have excellent research and organisational skills;
  • Be actively engaged with a major political party (preferable, but not essential).

The role will involve:

  • Leading a range of significant public affairs accounts – including but not limited to clients across planning, development and local government – on a day-to-day basis, working closely with junior and senior staff;
  • Developing an intuitive grasp of how political and regulatory developments will affect your clients – and an ability to rapidly advise them on what action (if any) to take;
  • Working with the team to formulate imaginative tactics and strategies for responding to political and regulatory developments;
  • Working with the team to develop and execute long term strategies built around the objectives of your clients;
  • Identifying creative ways to build momentum behind campaigns, including through utilising media channels;
  • Drafting and developing a range of written materials, including position papers, policy documents, campaign plans and new business proposals;
  • Developing more junior members of staff – nurturing their understanding and skills;
  • Identifying and pursuing new business opportunities, and generally promoting the strength of Newington’s offer
  • Organising events;
  • Demonstrating well-grounded political knowledge in specific areas which are of relevance to the client accounts you work on;
  • Producing informed, concise and high quality written briefings and reports.

We offer:

  • Training and opportunities to learn, plus formal mentoring and line manager feedback to grow;
  • Salary: £30,000+ (depending on experience);
  • Benefits: performance related bonus, flexitime working, company drinks on a Friday, yearly trip away, season ticket loan, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme and more.

Closing date

Applications for this post closed 11:59pm on Friday 31st January 2020