Global Counsel is seeking an associate to join our Delivery, Marketing, & Events team. GC’s Delivery team has a cross-cutting remit across the business, the team are responsible for GC’s external facing brand, marketing, content and campaigns as well as client events and supporting the senior leadership team with GC corporate strategy.
The successful candidate will work across GC’s in-person and digital events, marketing and business development campaigns. This is a role well suited to an entry-level associate looking to understand the strategic advisory sector, the interplay between policymaking, corporates and investors and the role of marketing and events in enhancing a company brand.
Role and responsibilities
- Work with the wider Delivery team on event design, programming and event execution from virtual events to in-office roundtables, external private dinners to conferences and networking events.
- Work with a broad range of GC practices across sectors and markets to support them with identifying and tracking engagement with relevant stakeholders for GC campaigns, events, and other BD purposes.
- Drafting marketing materials such as event invitations, social media copy, event webpages, speaker invitations
- Using and serving as gatekeeper of the CRM, regularly evaluate the extent to which GC’s network engages with our marketing content and how we use these insights to inform our marketing and content distribution strategies.
- Identifying opportunities to raise GC’s profile through media engagement and GC’s role in third-party events (e.g. Web Summit, COP, UK party conferences etc).
Background and experience
- Has an interest in politics, policy and regulation and what this means for GC’s corporate and investor clients. We want someone who wants to learn about the global political and policy environment, and how we use marketing strategies to demonstrate GC’s value and insights.
- Is adaptable and able to work in teams across the business. We are looking for someone who will work effectively not just within the marketing team, but across the organisation, including with our international offices.
- Has proven project management skills. Someone who can handle concurrent tasks effectively and lead independent projects.
- Takes a proactive approach to problem-solving and decision-making. Someone who is willing to learn new tools, suggest new processes, and take the lead on internal projects.
- Has an entrepreneurial approach to business development and finding opportunities to raise GC’s profile.
Skills and profile
- A motivated self-starter who can balance multiple deadlines at once.
- Demonstrated interest in politics, policy or advocacy.
- Strong research skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and written communication.
- A commercial focus and the ability to turn in-depth written, audio and video assets into insightful but accessible marketing content.
- A strong commitment to professional development and an entrepreneurial approach to making the role their own.
- Previous experience in marketing, communications, advocacy, journalism or corporate affairs desirable but not required.
Why join
- An opportunity to work with world-class advisers and political experts in a fast-growing firm, alongside a strong professional development program including a personal training budget.
- A competitive salary and bonus structure, a robust benefits package and opportunities to work from our offices across the world.
- A commitment to work-life balance, with flexible working, 25 days holiday allowance plus public holidays, enhanced parental leave, discretionary winter holiday office closures, and sabbaticals.
Our commitment to diversity
We are committed to equal opportunities, respect and wellbeing for all staff and applicants for employment. We are committed to building a team that genuinely reflects the diversity of the places we work. We are committed to achieving a culture where there is regard for all and there is no place for discrimination and harassment of any type.
Our aim is for GC to be a company where all our colleagues have the opportunity to grow, develop, succeed and be their authentic selves whatever their sex, race, colour, class, religion, age, national origin, disability status, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, redundancy, leaves of absence, salary and training.
About Global Counsel
Global Counsel brings together a team with diverse experience across the public and private sectors. Since our establishment in 2010 we have developed a wide range of services and capabilities for corporates and investors.
Global Counsel helps companies and investors across sectors to anticipate the ways in which politics, regulation and public policymaking create both risk and opportunity, and to develop and implement strategies to meet these challenges. We provide them with due diligence support to build compelling, evidence-based campaigns to engage in policy debates.
Our work is supported by high quality analytical content and collateral that is politically and economically informed and which builds quickly into executable strategy.
Our team is led by former public policymakers and political advisors with experience at the highest level of government. We have offices in London, Brussels, Washington DC, Singapore and Doha and are supported by a network of partners in other key markets.
