What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Financial Communications position at ASC Advisors LLC?
Job Description
ASC Advisors is looking for an experienced public relations professional to help manage communications initiatives with its global client base. The ideal candidate would have 6-8 years of professional communications experience, ideally at an agency or an investment manager, and thrives working in fast-paced situations within a team-based environment.
Location
Stamford, CT, New York, NY or Remote
About ASC Advisors
ASC Advisors is a strategic communications firm dedicated to the investment management industry. We provide strategic, hands-on communications counsel and execution to world-class investment managers with hedge fund, private equity and real estate offerings.
The range of our capabilities allows us to form long-term relationships with clients and help them with the variety of communications needs they have over time. For many of our clients we coordinate communications on a global basis, through our extensive network of media contacts and our relationships with communications agencies in major financial centers.
As a boutique firm, ASC Advisors relies on each of its team members to wear a number of hats and collaborate across client accounts on a daily basis. Given the firm’s focus on investment management, it offers its clients a wide-range of capabilities, ranging from day-to-day media relations and message development, including work around alts investment strategy and fund policies, to portfolio company transactions, proxy fights and activist campaigns and crisis communications.
Responsibilities Include
- Working collaboratively with ASC Advisors partners, managing directors, senior directors, directors and associates to support client accounts.
- Managing day-to-day client relationships, including development and delivery of materials, media inquiries and relationships and strategic initiative rollouts.
- Building and leveraging relationships with reporters at key financial and trade publications.
- Providing input into client strategy, including digital and social media communications.
- Contributing to new business efforts, including developing relationships with potential referral sources, participating in new business pitches and helping to expand the firm’s profile within the industry.
Skillset Should Include
- Strong written and verbal communications, including the ability to successfully draft, edit and proofread materials such as press releases, reporter pitches, pitch decks, reporter briefings, memos, etc.
- Media relations experience (e.g. pitching stories, scheduling and moderating interviews, managing inbound inquiries)
- Strong research and analysis skills especially regarding client media coverage and wider industry trends
- Proven and established reporter and industry relationships
- Excellent attention to detail
- Ability to lead and train junior staff members
- Prior knowledge of financial markets and investment management (Hedge fund, Private Equity, Real Estate, Venture Capital)
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- 6-8 years of communications experience
- Strong written and verbal communications skills
- Knowledge of or interest in financial markets
- Proficient in Mac, Google Docs, and Microsoft Office Suite
- Familiarity with digital and social media communications
- Ability to handle multiple projects at once, effectively managing time and prioritizing projects to meet deadlines
- M&A and Shareholder Activism experience a plus
Benefits
- SIMPLE retirement plan and company match
- Health insurance (dental and vision options included)
- Health savings account
- Paid time off