PR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE: BOUTIQUE CREATIVE COMMUNICATIONS AGENCY
PR Account Executive – Public Relations / Corporate Communications
Cape Town – Western Cape
We’ve got a terrific hybrid opportunity for a sharp, agile PR Account Executive eager to grow their career working across both corporate and consumer brands at a dynamic Cape Town-based creative communications agency.
This role is ideal for someone with around 2 years’ Account Executive experience who’s detail-driven, admin-savvy, and hungry to learn. You’ll support PR and communications campaigns from behind the scenes, getting hands-on exposure to media relations, content creation, project management, and reporting – all while being mentored by a top-tier team. You’ll also gain experience across multiple industries as you collaborate with different teams, build client relationships, and keep the gears of the agency running smoothly.
If you thrive on tight deadlines, crave variety, and love ticking boxes as much as telling stories, this could be your next step. Apply today!
Responsibilities
Strategy & Planning
- Support the Account Director and Account Manager in the development of client strategies and plans, assisting with delivering well-researched, thought-out and excellent strategic documents.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the client’s goals and objectives.
- Demonstrate creativity and insight in developing new and innovative plans and ideas.
Media Relations, Relationship Building & Content Creation
- Assist with media sell-ins where needed – but only under supervision of Account Manager or Account Director, takes overall responsibility for ensuring media targets are met.
- Demonstrate the potential to create compelling, relevant, insightful, creative and (if needed) newsworthy, content that is relevant to the client.
- Develop good media relations skills with relationships and results in traditional media placement.
- Develop a strong set of relationships with media and influencers, which is up to date and relevant to the client accounts.
- Draft press releases and other content, such as social media content calendars with little edits or other input needed.
Events & Projects
- Support the Account Director and Account Manager in developing proposals and budgets for events and other projects and ensuring sign-off by client.
- Support the Account Director and Account Manager in delivering against these plans, ensuring objectives, timelines and budgets are met.
- Display good programme delivery and project management skills.
Team Management
- Input into building company culture.
Account Management
- Build a relationship with the client and deliver against all briefs, plans and activities.
- Support the Account Director and Account Manager in the day-to-day implementation and roll out of agreed plans, meeting and exceeding all agreed KPIs as agreed and set out with the client.
- Display an understanding of the client business and an excellent relationship with the client.
- Attend client meetings and presentations, responsible for creating agendas in advance of the meeting, and circulating minutes or contact reports within 24 hours after the meeting.
- Draft and circulate weekly and monthly status reports, accurately and on time.
Requirements
The successful candidate must have/be:
- Industry relevant qualification
- Admin, process, and reporting skills – essential
- ±2 years relevant PR agency experience
- Proactive research, recommend and implement new trends and ideas in the communications sphere.
- Display good presentation skills – verbal and written.
- Demonstrate a good understanding of all marketing disciplines, including social media, digital, branding, graphic design, online etc.
- Demonstrate attention to detail and organisational skills e.g. editing, time planning, meeting deadlines etc.
- Personal skills: demonstrate confidence; calmness under pressure; being a self-starter (getting stuck in and getting hands dirty); creativity; and enthusiasm.
- Other tasks and activities as assigned.
If you don’t have the relevant experience required for this role, please consider your application unsuccessful.
City: Cape Town
Level of Expertise: Junior-Mid
Remuneration: Negotiable
Consultant: Tamara
Reference Number: #Tam837
