This position is LA-based, required to be in the LA office two days a week. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Strategic Communications Associate Director collaborates with client teams within the Individual client practice and leads them to define and design innovative communications and messaging strategies that influence perceptions and change behaviors to achieve our clients’ social impact goals. The Associate Director proactively and reactively advises clients on communications recommendations, and manages best-in-class vendors to execute the work. This role has two primary areas of focus: 1. Research & Strategy Development, and 2. Execution Management.

Specific responsibilities will include:

Research & Strategy Development

• Support clients and internal teams to define desired impact outcomes and lead the development and presentation of research-backed and executable communications strategies that advance our clients’ work in a clear, cohesive, persuasive voice and language that raises awareness, shifts mindset, and changes behavior among our target audience.
• Craft communications plans, narrative concepts, messaging frameworks, multiuse copy, and collateral assets that are clear and persuasive; capture the client’s unique voice; are precisely tailored to meet target audiences where they are; motivate action by speaking to hearts and minds; and are sharp, memorable and moving enough to stand out in a crowded media landscape. 
• Utilize the strengths and expertise of the internal client team to inform and shape communications solutions and strategies to ensure maximum creativity, alignment, and impact.
• Partner closely with the Strategic Marketing team to transform communications plans and solutions into actionable marketing initiatives, ensuring seamless and effective delivery to the target audience.
• Develop productive and trusting relationships with clients to support the Strategic Advisor in their efforts to lead the client through our work and to provide ongoing trusted communications advice.
• Stay-up-to-date and bring forward communications innovations to provide clients cutting-edge and timely strategies.
• Actively participate in the strategic communications community of practice to drive innovation, develop best practices, collaboratively problem solve, continue to develop own expertise, and mentor others.

Execution Management 

• Provide inputs on relevant prospective client scopes to support pitches and feasibility of scopes as requested by the Principal.
• Identify best-in-class communications vendors to execute client-approved strategies. This may include copywriting, crisis communications, and public relations experts, among others.
• Effectively manage and maximize all communications partners and vendors, ensuring strategic and logistical (budget, timeline, etc.) goals are met and scopes of partnerships are adhered to.
• Work with Account Management to develop and manage vendor scopes and payments.
• Contribute to Propper Daley’s vendor CRM to ensure accuracy and breadth. 
• Provide regular updates to Account Management and the entire internal client team to ensure strategic and logistical alignment across client work. 
• Provide execution updates to clients against work in line with Strategic Advisor's priorities.

This function reports to: Individual Practice Principal

QUALIFICATIONS

• At least 7 years of experience crafting and executing communications strategies with leadership responsibilities. 
• Significant experience offering big-picture and research-backed strategies and multi-pronged solutions that address all nuances of a challenge.
• Ability to engage with, present to, and be an effective advisor to clients, internal team, and other stakeholders. 
• Exceptional writing abilities in a multitude of formats including but not limited to: messaging & talking points, speeches, video content scripts, press releases, op-eds and thought leadership pieces, website copy, social media content, concept memos, briefing books, and other assets.
• Incredibly adaptable with a track record of productively changing directions and providing solutions in times of change. 
• Experience and strong ability to manage communications vendors and partners to achieve exceptional results against priorities. 
• Always up-to-date on new innovations in domain and ability to apply innovations in a timely and effective manner. 

BENEFITS

Our team gives so much to the clients and communities they serve, which is why we invest in their financial, mental, and emotional well-being through our benefits. Propper Daley provides competitive compensation that includes eligibility for performance-based and new business bonuses. We also support the team to take care of themselves with the following benefits:

• Compensation package: Starting at $105,000
• Employer contributions to 401K
• Unlimited time off policy
• Twelve Federal holidays
• Summer Fridays between Memorial Day and Labor Day (off at 1pm)
• Two weeks of paid time off between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid parental and maternity leave benefits

ABOUT PROPPER DALEY

Based in Los Angeles, Propper Daley helps our clients leverage their unique assets to create positive change in the world. We work with influencers, brands and causes, providing both strategic and creative solutions to move the needle on the issues they care most about. Our approach, rooted in behavioral science, moves beyond foundational "awareness raising" to those strategies and ideas that shift the attitudes and perceptions that lead to behavior change.

We believe deeply in working as teams. More often than not, social change requires collaborative creativity, disruption and complex problem solving. We serve our clients as thought-partners, strategists, advisers, and tacticians as they move their important work forward. 

We expect everyone at Propper Daley to practice the following core values and look for candidates that can and already do live into them:

1. We lead with kindness. We always orient from a place of kindness, with a focus on how we can help others thrive and do their best.
2. We practice pragmatic optimism. As changemakers, we are always faced with new challenges and obstacles, yet we remain optimistic by coming up with both creative solutions and practical ways to achieve them.
3. We believe diligence is the bridge between optimism and impact. Our best ideas come to life when, individually and collectively, we consistently put our best effort forward. We push past the status quo because we have a responsibility to be as tenacious and results-oriented as possible.
4. We build shared expertise through our individuality. We value and leverage each person’s unique and diverse lived and professional experience in order to develop the most inclusive and effective solutions possible.
5. We remain grounded in humility. Social impact and the challenges we work to address are too big to solve on our own. We remain confident and curious enough to ask questions, gain perspectives, and collaborate with others as often as possible.

Some of our clients include:

• John Legend and #FREEAMERICA
• The Shawn Mendes Foundation
• Kerry Washington
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation
• Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation
• Everytown for Gun Safety
• The Climate Reality Project
• The Jed Foundation