Account Coordinator, Public Affairs & Government Relations
APPLY NOWProof Strategies is looking for a motivated, curious, and enthusiastic communications professional to join and grow with our team in Ottawa as an Account Coordinator. The ideal candidate has an education in political science, political management, or public policy, and has some internship experience at an agency. An Account Coordinator provides day-to-day support across account teams. This includes daily media monitoring, media and influencer relations, social listening, conducting research, preparation of materials for clients including reports and presentations (some writing), and various administrative tasks as required by the team.
What you’ll do
- Monitoring media coverage and postings from politicians, staff, and key stakeholders.
- Create and maintain comprehensive politician, staff, and stakeholder lists.
- Conduct research and distill and incorporate data into documents and spreadsheets.
- Assist with drafting client briefing notes and materials such as backgrounders.
- Assist account teams with government relations, including arranging meetings.
- Support account team with administrative tasks and client support, meeting set-up, note taking, legislative and political monitoring, etc.
- Leverage the use of monitoring tools to support daily media monitoring and provide intel to better understand our clients and to help account teams better advise clients.
- Conduct research.
- Prepare PowerPoint presentations, along with editing, formatting, and management of decks.
- Draft meeting requests and materials such as backgrounders.
- Create, populate and manage Excel spreadsheets.
- Prepare reports for clients.
- Logistical support with event planning.
- Work with visual content assets such as infographics and video in support of social media strategies.
- Assist with administrative tasks: team support, meeting set-up, note taking, GR meeting support, etc.
- Contribute to the firm’s commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
- Carry out all other reasonable duties assigned by the company.
What you’ll bring
- Completion of post-secondary education in political science, public policy, political manager communications, marketing, journalism, or a related field is considered an asset
- Completion of an internship / agency / related work experience is considered an asset
- Digitally literate, with proficiency in using digital/social media platforms and tools for business, (including Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, LinkedIn, Google, etc.)
- Strong understanding of Canadian politics
- Has an intermediate to advanced skill level in Microsoft Office applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Teams etc.)
- Working proficiency of Adobe Creative Suite is considered an asset
- Proficiency with multiple languages is considered an asset
What we offer
Proof Strategies is an award-winning Great Places to Work® workplace overall and for women, inclusivity, youth, and mental health and one known for living The Platinum Rule: to treat others as they would wish to be treated. As a Canadian, independent owned company, we make decisions locally based on what is best for our employees and clients.
- Competitive salary.
- A forward-thinking culture that expects and rewards curiosity, bravery, and results.
- Comprehensive health benefits from Day One.
- Subsidized continuing education and frequent personal and professional development events.
- An annual Nature Day, away from work to spend time enjoying nature.
- An annual Volunteer Day to spend supporting a charity of your choice.
- Milestone anniversaries trip rewards for full-time employees at the 3, 5, 8, 10, 15, 20- and 25-year mark (because yes, people stay with us this long).
- Generous vacation time as well as office closures between Christmas and New Year’s.
At Proof Strategies, we believe that delivering exceptional work, building trust, and having fun is the best path to a successful communications agency. Three decades of continuous annual growth has proven that philosophy.
We are an equal opportunity employer dedicated to equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace and encourage applications from all qualified applicants. If you require any accommodation during the recruitment process, please let us know.
No phone inquiries, please. Only candidates selected to continue in the recruitment process will be contacted.
Thank you for your interest in Proof Strategies.
