Careers
Current openings
Opportunities to join the team at College Green Group can be found below:
Account Director – Geopolitical
Account Director - Geopolitical
Location: London/home working
Role overview
College Green Group is seeking to recruit an experienced, motivated, and versatile senior consultant for its growing geopolitical practice. The right candidate will have a wide-ranging skill set, including excellent political knowledge and relationships, a strong understanding of the media landscape, the ability to think strategically and the drive to manage effective campaigns and projects, as part of a tight-knit team.
Primary duties and capabilities
- Managing client relationships, campaigns and projects, whilst adhering to our values, delivering results and working with/reporting to the director of strategic development. Responsible for:
- Managing workloads proactively, with limited direction and supervision
- Managing client expectations
- Providing internal and external progress updates
- Clearly briefing and delegating responsibility to other team members
- Assuming responsibility for end-to-end delivery of campaigns, projects and other consultancy work
- Building and developing high-level relationships with politicians, diplomats, journalists and other key stakeholders
- Working closely with the geopolitical team at all stages of the client journey, from researching prospective clients/sectors to ensuring continued client satisfaction and delivery of results against briefs/contracts
- Leading client meetings, including with senior politicians, diplomats and business leaders, ensuring that they are productive and clearly documented with action points and timeframes
- Writing op-eds, media releases, web copy and other content to an excellent standard
- Completing reports with a high standard of accuracy, content and visual presentation
- Building a personal network of MPs and other key stakeholders, such as prospective clients, journalists, referrers of business, and think tankers – to strengthen the CGG brand, reputation and relational reach
- Capability to work across digital and social media platforms and channels – curating, creating and commissioning content
Primary characteristics and behaviours
- Enthusiasm to learn and develop new skills, competencies and capabilities
- Proactivity in helping other team members succeed, generating new business leads, originating revenue-generative ideas and in creating opportunities for colleagues to develop
- Ability to work on multiple campaigns/projects simultaneously, whilst maintaining high-quality output
- Values-driven, with a high standard of integrity and confidentiality
- Strong attention to detail
Application details
Please send your CV and a Cover Letter to lara@collegegreengroup.com
Business Development Manager
Location: London/home working
Role overview
The business development manager will be the primary lead generator and business closer for College Green Group, working across a wide range of products and services, from selling sponsorship opportunities to fundraising. They will bring existing contacts and strategies to quickly build the business pipeline and extend our network and opportunities. We are looking for someone innovative and with established connections.
This role has a strategic element – you will have responsibility for delivering the commercial growth strategy for College Green Group and for bringing clients to our team to develop the business and build our reputation. The immediate focus will be to deliver short-term revenue targets and create a solid basis for sustainable growth, in addition to delivering accurate and reliable revenue forecasts.
The ideal candidate will
- Be a confident and experienced business development professional with a strong record of building sales pipeline and closing deals
- Have an existing client network that would fit our business and the ability to build personal and company networks
- Be commercially and politically knowledgeable and comfortable working with senior politicians and business leaders
- Digital, social media and technology savvy
- Self-motivated, self-driven, confident, reputationally sound
- Excellent communicator
- Have confidence in selling niche products with substantial value
- Strong analytical skills, financial acumen and proven ability to manage to targets and budgets
- Experience writing pitches, creating proposals and identifying client objectives
Primary duties and capabilities
- Cross-selling and up-selling products and/or services to existing clients, including cold calling, email marketing, creating strong presentations, and responding to RFPs
- Networking, with a view to building the College Green Group brand, reputation and relational reach to politicians and other key stakeholders, such as prospective clients and referrers of business
- Delivering results against sales targets
- Any other duties as reasonably required by a member of the SMT
Primary characteristics and behaviours
- High level of attention to detail
- High level of commercial awareness
- Enthusiasm to learn and develop new skills, competencies and capabilities
- Proactivity in helping other team members to succeed, generating new business leads, originating revenue-generative ideas and in creating opportunities for College Green Group to grow and develop
- Demonstrating a desire to be a team player, and to help other colleagues achieve success
- Commitment to values of integrity and individualism, and to being innovative, inspirational and informative
- Willingness to go beyond contracted hours in relevant situations
Core knowledge
- Good understanding of the British political landscape, including the UK Parliament and media landscape
- Strong working knowledge of Google Docs and other systems and platforms used by CGG
Senior Account Director / Senior Campaign Director
Location: London/home working
Role overview
The College Green Group senior account director/senior campaign director (SAD/SCD) is a highly experienced, reliable, motivated, multi-skilled, client facing consultant who leads multiple teams. They hold responsibility for significant revenue-generation and leadership across corporate affairs, corporate communications and public affairs. They are multi-skilled, with wide experience across multiple disciplines.
The SAD/SCD also holds senior responsibility and accountability for business development and is primarily responsible for ensuring that teams perform optimally and deliver results against briefs and plans. They are focused on client growth and satisfaction profitably, on time and on budget. They report to the senior management team (SMT).
Primary duties and capabilities
Managing client relationships, campaigns and projects on an ongoing basis, in line with contractual agreements – adhering to College Green Group principles, delivering results and reporting to a member of the SMT across each client relationship, campaign or project.
Responsible for:
- Leading and managing teams and client relationships proactively, providing both strategic and tactical support and upskilling
- Exceeding client expectations
- Ensuring consistency and high standards throughout internal and external updates
- Taking responsibility for end to end delivery of campaigns, projects and other consultancy work
- Taking responsibility for multiple business development initiatives, identifying and winning new clients across corporate affairs, corporate communications and public affairs
- Leading and delivering successful pitches, tenders and RFPs
- Evidencing the ability to lead and manage three campaigns or projects to the total value of £30,000+ a month successfully over a six month period
- Ensuring continued client satisfaction and delivery of results against briefs/contracts
- Ability to lead client meetings, including with senior politicians and senior business leaders, ensuring that meetings are productive and clearly documented with action points and timeframes
- Completing project reports to a high standard of integrity, accuracy, content and visual presentation
- Cross-selling and up-selling products and/or services to existing clients, where appropriate
- Frequent, high-level networking, with a view to building the College Green Group brand, reputation and relational reach
- Building a strong and extensive personal network, to include British MPs and other key stakeholders, such as prospective clients at C-Suite level, journalists, referrers of business
- Taking responsibility for preparing thorough and timely handover notes when going on holiday, and communicating them clearly to relevant team members
- Any other duties as reasonably required by a member of the SMT
Primary characteristics and behaviours
- Meticulous attention to detail
- First-rate commercial awareness, including the ability to negotiate with suppliers, budget (and stay to budget), and price services accordingly (and in line with our rate cards)
- Enthusiasm to learn and develop new skills, competencies and capabilities
- Proactivity in helping other team members to succeed, including generating new business leads, originating revenue-generative ideas and in creating opportunities for CGG to grow and develop
- Being a consistent team player, and to help other colleagues achieve success
- Flexibility to work on multiple campaigns/projects simultaneously, without reducing quality of work
- Commitment to values of integrity and individualism, and to being innovative, inspirational and informative
- Willingness to go beyond contracted hours in relevant situations
Core knowledge
- Excellent understanding of the British political landscape, including the UK Parliament and media landscape
- Strong working knowledge of Google Docs and other systems and platforms used by CGG
Secondary duties and capabilities
(Note: not all team members are expected to have all of these capabilities, but all SADs/SCDs are expected to have some of these capabilities, and perform some of these duties)
- Social media management across platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, twitter and YouTube – to include content creation, curation and commissioning, content scheduling, devising and maintaining social media guidelines, and measurement and evaluation against KPIs
- Moderating focus groups
- Structuring qualitative and quantitative research proposals
- Media relations capabilities, including writing op-eds, features, news releases, ghostwritten articles etc.
- Crisis communications and proactive reputation management
- Event planning and management
- Sponsorship management
- Copywriting
- Proficiency in privacy policies, GDPR compliance and data management
- Selling additional services, such as sponsorships for APPGs, the UCanvass App and other products and services, such as College Green Group creates and markets from time to time
- Volunteer management and motivation
- Strong presentation skills
- Ability to use paid social media (Google Adwords, Facebook, other pay-per-click) including targeting, budget management and reporting
- Data analytics skills
Account Executive / Campaign Executive
College Green Group account executives/campaign executives (AEs/CEs) are reliable, motivated, multi-skilled, client facing team members who (alongside campaign managers/account managers) serve as a point of contact on a day to day basis for our clients, and are responsible to help deliver services and results against briefs and plans. They are focused on delivering tactical work for clients, efficiently and within timeframes and budgets. They ordinarily work across multiple clients and campaigns.
Primary duties and capabilities
Managing client relationships, campaigns and projects on a day to day basis, in line with contractual agreements – adhering to College Green Group principles, delivering results and working with/reporting to a senior team member across each client relationship, campaign or project.
Responsible for:
- Managing workloads proactively (including managing up)
- Helping to manage client expectations
- Providing internal and external progress updates (which may include updating software/CRM systems, contact/meeting reports, rolling notes, formal updates and presentations)
- Clearly briefing and working with other team members
- Demonstrating ability to work unaided where required
- Ability to contribute to client meetings and ensure that they are productive and clearly documented with action points and timeframes
- Completing project reports to a high standard
- A working knowledge of the main social media networks and platforms for business and political campaigns (at present, LinkedIn, Facebook, twitter, Instagram and YouTube)
- Undertaking research tasks to a consistently high standard
- Taking responsibility for preparing thorough and timely handover notes when going on holiday, and communicating them clearly to relevant team members
- Any other duties as reasonably required by colleagues (in consultation with line manager and/or SMT)
Primary characteristics and behaviours
- Good attention to detail
- Good commercial awareness, including the ability to negotiate with suppliers, budget (and stay to budget), and price services accordingly (and in line with our rate cards)
- Enthusiasm to learn and develop new skills, competencies and capabilities
- Proactivity in helping other team members to succeed, generating new business leads, originating revenue-generative ideas and in creating opportunities for College Green Group to grow and develop
- Demonstrating a desire to be a team player, and to help other colleagues achieve success
- Commitment to values of integrity and individualism, and to being innovative, inspirational and informative
- Willingness to go beyond contracted hours in relevant situations
Core knowledge
- Understanding of the British political landscape, including the UK Parliament and media landscape
- Working knowledge of Google Docs and other systems and platforms used by CGG
Secondary duties and capabilities
(Note: not all team members are expected to have all of these capabilities, but all AEs/CEs are expected to have some of these capabilities, and perform some of these duties)
- Social media management across platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, twitter and YouTube – to include content creation, curation and commissioning, content scheduling, devising and maintaining social media guidelines, and measurement and evaluation against KPIs
- Website design and build
- Scripting, storyboarding, shooting, editing and post-production of video
- Graphic design
- Moderating focus groups
- Structuring qualitative and quantitative research proposals
- Media relations, including writing op-eds, features, news releases, ghostwritten articles etc.
- Crisis communications and proactive reputation management
- Event planning and management
- Sponsorship management
- Copywriting
- Proficiency in privacy policies, GDPR compliance and data management
- Selling additional services, such as sponsorships for APPGs, the UCanvass App and other products and services, such as College Green Group creates and markets from time to time
- Supporting and training other team members in order to upskill the wider team (e.g. providing training on Elementor/WordPress)
- Volunteer management and motivation
- Strong presentation skills
- Ability to use paid social media (Google Adwords, Facebook, other pay-per-click) including targeting, budget management and reporting
- Data analytics skills
Application details
Please send your CV and a Cover Letter to frances.ingram@collegegreengroup.com
