Advisor, Strategic Communications Specialist

Advisor, Strategic Communications Specialist

Full time | Sydney or greater Sydney | Hybrid and flexible

You've built strong client relationships, with a solid account management history behind you. You’ve published stories you're proud of and kept several accounts moving at once. Your next move is a place where your experience counts, your ideas are heard and professional growth at the core.

The PR Hub is hiring an Advisor, Strategic Communications Specialist, to own daily delivery across a portfolio of clients. You'll work directly with founders, CEOs and senior leaders, pitch stories across business, trade and consumer media, with a senior lead backing you on strategy and complex client assignments.

About The PR Hub

For 13 years, The PR Hub has worked with successful, predominantly founder-led businesses, including award winners and established global companies. Each has proven market demand and a robust business model, and many use technology and AI to redefine how their sector operates.

We're industry agnostic by choice.

Our clients span automotive, health and fitness, retail, hospitality, property, finance, manufacturing, telecommunications and professional services. We choose them for the substance of their business and the people behind it.

One week you could be drawing out an adviser's perspective on an acquisition. The next, you're shaping a founder's story or finding the business angle behind a familiar consumer brand.

On international briefs, you'll work with overseas PR partners and learn how stories, audiences and media priorities differ between markets. You'll also gain exposure to market disruption, sensitive issues, crisis responses and regulatory developments, all with senior guidance.

What You'll Own

• Trusted client relationships: you lead the day-to-day conversations and keep commitments on track.
• Finding and pitching relevant stories across national business, consumer and trade media, including between announcements.
• Journalist relationships: you draw on your existing contacts and build new ones for your clients.
• Turning business insights, data and expert perspectives into sharp pitches, thought leadership, releases, presentations and spokesperson briefs.
• Preparing spokespeople and following each media opportunity through to coverage.
• Priorities, approvals and reporting, raising risks early with practical recommendations.
• You'll run planning and client conversations, hear the reasoning behind decisions and put your own thinking forward. As you demonstrate your capability, your autonomy with each account will grow, leading you to take on key responsibility for account management, strategy and execution.

What You'll Bring

• Proven PR and strategic communications account management skills, with a minimum of 5 years experience or equivalent
• Established relationships within Australian media and coverage you personally helped secure.
• Confidence approaching journalists and editors by phone and email, tailoring each pitch for maximum impact and follow through.
• Demonstrated experience working with accomplished business leaders. You know how to thoroughly prepare to take a brief, skilled in communicating with accomplished founders and executives, with the confidence to offer a considered view.
• Clear writing and a knack for making complex subjects accessible.
• Care with competing deadlines and ownership of your work.
• A proactive approach, with a bias for action.

Experience in corporate, business or technology communications is particularly valuable, including work with consumer brands whose stories extend into those areas.

What You can Expect

You'll work with a face paced and dynamic team. Experienced colleagues to bounce an angle around with, work through a tricky brief and celebrate when a story gets traction makes the client feel proud.

Ask questions, share a draft idea and expect useful, honest feedback. We hold each other to high standards, share what we know and use tools such as AI thoughtfully. There's plenty of room for a laugh too.

Additional perks include:

• Hybrid working, combining remote work with dedicated team days and client meetings.
• Five weeks of annual leave after two years of service.
• Three additional wellness days each year.
• A $300 allowance towards your home office setup.
• Senior mentoring, regular feedback and dedicated conversations about your career goals, development and progression.
  

What You can Expect

Attractive remuneration package on offer.

Apply with your CV and two examples of coverage you helped secure, with a few lines explaining the angle and your contribution. Tell us which media outlets and sectors you work with regularly, what you're ready to bring and how this role will support you and your next career move. Send to hello@theprhub.com.au