Job Description

The Toronto Office is seeking an Associate. This person will assist in coordinating and executing the day-to-day PR responsibilities. You will work within a team at Golin that manages the flow of work and information to account teams and evaluates and edits work product. The Associate will assist senior members in their client development, team management, client management, event management and account operations functions.
About Golin:
Golin is a global, award-winning public relations agency that helps company create change that matters. Together, we discover powerful human truths that bind us, create with bravery, and collaborate inclusively and obsessively. Golin's 1700 global employees operate across 50+ offices worldwide, allowing us to provide our clients with comprehensive solutions for multi-market, regional and global communications programs.
Every agency is talking about AI. At Golin, we are using AI to rewrite the rules of PR. We're even promising to become the first fully AI-integrated agency by 2026. We are committed to upskilling our workforce, democratizing access to tools, and integrating AI into our daily work to maximize the value we deliver to our clients.
We're especially committed to going all in for our people. We challenge our employees to be courageously happy and have empowered them to do so by offering our LifeTime benefits program. LifeTime offers flexible time off, enhanced family care, generous health and wellness benefits, workplace hybrid flexibility, and a monthly LifeTime stipend for the gym or hobbies.
Our expertise ranges from brand-building and cutting-edge digital content to corporate reputation, healthcare advocacy and measurement. Golin aligns earned-first, data-driven creative with the customer journey through our collaborative G4 Model to deliver maximum impact for clients. Our roster includes many of the largest CPG, retail, food, healthcare technology and consumer service companies in the world.
What You'll Do:

• Ensure team members are kept updated on client developments
• Manage day-to-day activities across several work streams
• Participate in client and account team interaction, assist in creating client meeting and call reports, activity reports, status documents, and results reports for agency team
• Provide basic client counsel on tactical matters with supervision and develop client-facing activity reports and weekly status update documents
• Attend client meetings, observe client and account team interaction
• Manage vendors and purchasing process
• Develop client correspondence and reports based on monitoring of trends, media/social media coverage, etc.
• Draft media materials
• Have a strong eye for detail and quality control of ideas, client and team correspondence and plans
• Understand traditional media and digital and social media solutions and position them with clients in collaboration with subject-matter experts
• Demonstrate strong editing and analytical skills, working collaboratively with our writers and designers on communications documents and creative content
• Anticipate client and team needs and requests and provide proactive solutions
• Work with senior management, clients and legal to secure approvals/client edits on all materials
• Develop timelines, budgets and staffing plans for all projects and ensure team adheres to them

Who You Are:

• 1-2 years of related professional experience (preferably agency experience)
• Bachelors degree in business, English, journalism, public relations, communications or related field
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
• Ability to multi-task
• Meet deadlines under pressure and work independently
• Strong writing skills
• A collaborative style
• Solutions-oriented
• Accountable and responsible

Any request to schedule an interview and any legitimate offer of employment will only come from an authorized representative of Golin. We will never require an applicant to provide sensitive personally identifiable information in order to conduct an interview.
Golin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.
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