Public Relations Account Director

H+K Strategies is searching for a talented **Account Director** to join our Bogota-based team. This is a unique opportunity to grow as a communications professional by working across a diverse portfolio of influential clients within a dynamic, global agency.

**Here’s** **what you’ll be doing**:

- Strategically lead client accounts, acting as a trusted advisor, while actively inspiring and managing the account team to deliver the very best results.
- Leveraging top-tier media relationships to drive successful earned media outcomes for clients
- Providing clients with informed recommendations based on a true understanding of, and changes within, the media landscape and the communications industry
- Developing and maintaining strong relationships with client contacts
- Planning and executing communications programs
- Identifying new opportunities, managing new business proposals and representing H+K in pitch presentations
- Contributing superb writing abilities in the creation of bylines and other long-form content
- Working closely with H+K team members and key client contacts, ensuring high quality and precision on client deliverables
- Contributing creativity, passion, and expertise to an entrepreneurial team environment where everyone’s voice is heard, highly valued, and rewarded
***What else is in it for you?**
- Competitive benefits package
- A career working with and influencing bold, impactful clients and innovative account teams
- Strong leadership with a focus on entrepreneurial thinking, training and mentoring to help you grow, expand your skills and become your professional best

**What you’ll need to get here**:

- Undergraduate degree
- 7+ years’ experience in strategic communications/public relations; experience working with clients in the health and wellness sector; agency experience preferred
- Proven track record of success planning and executing executive communications programs that meet client business objectives, as well as new business plans and proposals
- Earned media expertise with the ability to develop media strategies
- Strong understanding of the media landscape; proactive in tracking relevant changes in the media and the ability to make recommendations/share insight with client contacts based on those changes
- Enthusiasm for working as a leader within a team, managing and upskilling junior staff while modeling corporate culture values
- Excellent client service skills with the ability to build and maintain relationships with client contacts
- Superb writing and editing skills across a variety of platforms with a keen eye for detail and love of the written word in both **English** and **Spanish**
- Passion, integrity, and excitement for the H+K brand
- Solid experience in influencer marketing and crisis management
**About**
Hill+Knowlton Strategies is an international public relations company with over 85 offices around the world. We believe that every corporation, every brand, every client has a public and today’s public is more powerful than ever before. They have the power to topple CEO’s, reshape corporate and brand strategy, kill products and create unicorns. Today’s public demands truth, transparency and the highest behavioral standards.

Our client obsession means constantly evolving new products + services to help brands and the public communicate. Always in beta.

At H+K our belief is that the agency is a canvas for everyone to write their own story. This job description is written at a moment in time; whatever role you take at H+K we expect you to evolve that role; it should be different tomorrow than it is today and set new standards in the industry.

Join our team and harness the power of the public.
- As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Hill+Knowlton Strategies does not discriminate against applicants or employees because of their race, creed, color, age, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military status, national origin, or ancestry._
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