Assistant Account Executive (Contract)

Job Summary:

The Assistant Account Executive (known at Ad Council as Assistant Campaign Manager) is an integral part of the Ad Council’s team responsible for creating, implementing and evaluating communications campaigns for more than 30 social good issues each year.

Whether you’re working with top ad agencies and content creators to develop award-winning campaigns around our causes, helping to set the strategy for your campaigns’ social and digital programs, or partnering with one of our board member companies on their CSR initiative, your job as an Assistant Campaign Manager is to help support the account team and keep all the moving pieces running smoothly in a fast-paced environment.

The ideal candidate is a stellar project manager with strong oral and written communication skills, has an appetite to learn about the latest trends in advertising and marketing, and is passionate about social change. This position requires travel to Ad Council’s NYC and DC offices for all-staff and team meetings at least four times a year, and campaign-related travel as required.

This is a contract employee role. This means that, while the position is at all times one of “at will employment”, the Ad Council anticipates at present that the employment length would be approximately 6 months. The compensation for this position is $5,250 monthly, paid semi-monthly. Contract employees will be eligible to participate in limited benefits and paid time off. We are also open to this role being a fully remote position.

What you’ll do:

• Assist campaign team in the strategic and creative development, production and evaluation for 3-5 fully-integrated campaigns, including:
• Keep cross-functional team updated on campaign development and key milestones
• Coordinate administrative activities and communications around campaign development, including timelines, call reports, meeting preparation, etc.
• Manage development of media marketing and promotional materials for campaigns
• Facilitate workflow between clients, partner agencies and other vendors by coordinating campaign materials and securing all necessary approvals
• Maintain accurate up-to-date campaign budgets, financial records, vendor SOWs, MSAs and contract reporting
• Collaborate with cross-functional team to analyze and report on real-time campaign performance, including donated and earned media support, managed platforms results (Meta, YouTube, Snap, LinkedIn, etc.), and website and social media analytics
• Support your campaigns’ social media and digital development efforts, including reviewing editorial calendars, reviewing/crafting website content, and assisting with site QA
• Support campaign team by fostering open and collaborative internal and external relationships
• Conduct competitive review, partner/talent vetting, trend analyses and other relevant campaign/issue research as needed
• Maintain campaign assets, inventory and vendor information to ensure all elements are current, updated and available in our databases

What you bring:

• 1+ years of account or project management experience (previous advertising and marketing experience preferred)
• Excellent oral and written communications
• Demonstrated critical thinking and analytical skills
• Proven track record of leadership through experiences as a team leader (sports, clubs, extracurricular activities, or in group work) where you demonstrated effective communication, decision-making, and ability to take initiative.
• Strong computer skills with knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint
• A passion for social change

What you need to be successful in the role:

• A strong project manager who thrives on being organized and detail-oriented in a fast-paced and deadline-driven environment; is able to connect the dots and adapts easily to changing circumstances
• A team player who works well with others and builds relationships easily and proactively in a remote environment
• Comfortable with all forms of interpersonal communications (including email, text/Slack, phone/video, in-person)
• A desire to learn and approach everything with a curious mindset
• Proactive and solutions-oriented; not afraid to raise your hand and roll up your sleeves