Public Relations Account Supervisor

The position of Account Supervisor reports to an Account Director or higher-level employee. The primary responsibility is to manage and implement account work for several clients, or a significant portion of a large account. The Account Supervisor is responsible for managing and executing all aspects of a PR program, supervising and managing the client relationship, and managing the account team. Should demonstrate expertise to answer all general PR questions immediately and unaided.

• Providing strategic counsel to clients and account team
• Managing the execution of programs as well as assuming direct responsibility for quality implementation
• Continually developing relationships with media and pitching clients on an ongoing basis
• Anticipating clients’ strategic needs – both long and short term
• Offering value-add counsel on an ongoing basis
• Planning and running strategic client meetings
• Managing all communication with the client
• Retaining current accounts and growing them
• Building relationships at the senior level with clients while maintaining others
• Supervising account staff in their daily activities, providing structure and instruction for balancing their workloads
• Motivating/mentoring staff and guiding professional development
• Proactively participating in new business initiatives: plan writing, presentation
• Working knowledge of social networks and ability to assist clients with developing strategies and monitoring share of voice

• Critical Thinking: the ability to effectively analyze information and form a judgment, the ability to be aware of your own biases and assumptions when encountering information and apply consistent standards when evaluating sources.
• Leadership – the ability to organize and motivate people to get things accomplished in a way that everyone feels a sense of order and direction. The ability to guide coworkers, teams, and direct reports toward successful outcomes with workplace objectives, offering support, operating with a strong results-orientation, seeking different perspectives, solving problems effectively.
• Long Range Planning: the ability to identify long‑range goals and design realistic plans to attain them; the ability to see the big picture. And then determine what direction to take and how to use resources to attain future goals.
• Creativity: the ability to adapt traditional methods, concepts, models, designs, technologies, or systems to new applications; or the ability to devise new approaches to make improvements or solve problems.
• Personal Accountability: the ability to be responsible for the consequences of one’s own actions and decisions; taking responsibility for these decisions and not shifting focus on blame or poor performance somewhere else or on others.

• 4 years of relevant work experience
• BA/BS Degree
• Requires strong written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail.

• Ability to prioritize while simultaneously working on numerous projects
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Detail oriented and results oriented
• Ability to spot trends and integrate into PR efforts to keep accounts current in the media