Account Executive, Higher Education

🏢 Berlinrosen · 📍 New York, N.Y. 💰 $65,000 - $65,000 / yr

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

ABOUT ORCHESTRA

Orchestra is a strategic communications and marketing company built for today’s complex and fragmented world. From decoding audiences to designing bold strategies, Orchestra integrates people, platforms, and stories that stick to help clients build lasting influence. The company offers programs that span from the highest level strategic business counsel through to tactical execution. Orchestra brings together 700+ people with experience across consumer and lifestyle, technology, nonprofit and philanthropy, real estate, sports, travel, hospitality, and more. Made up of leading firms BerlinRosen, Civitas Public Affairs Group, Derris, Glen Echo Group, Inkhouse, M18, Message Lab, Onward and Small Girls PR. It also launched Brightmode, a talent acquisition firm for communications professionals, and Versus Media Group, a strategy-first political media team. Learn more at www.orchestraco.com.

People of all backgrounds and abilities are strongly encouraged to apply. Orchestra is committed to building and maintaining a diverse staff, and recognizes that its continued success depends on hiring and retaining high-quality creative professionals with a variety of backgrounds and experiences. Opportunities for advancement exist and we are committed to helping all staff develop and grow.

ABOUT THE HIGHER EDUCATION TEAM

BerlinRosen’s Higher Education team sits within Orchestra’s Tech & Corporate practice and brings deep expertise in guiding colleges, universities and academic institutions through today’s complex communications landscape. Our work spans paid, earned, social, content and crisis communications, giving us the ability to deliver fully integrated, cross-channel strategies that drive impact.

We partner with leading institutions spanning the Ivy League, elite R1 research universities and flagship public university systems, helping them elevate their voices, protect their reputations and engage key audiences in a competitive and fast-changing higher education environment.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

BerlinRosen is seeking an Account Executive to join our Higher Education team. You will maintain daily client relations, plan and execute day-to-day project deliverables, support and lead junior staff and conceptualize strategies, pitches and media placements.

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Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Evaluating strategic communications mastery, high-stakes crisis management, and media relations acumen across diverse industries.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Treating media relations as purely transactional pitching without understanding broader narrative arcs.
2. Inability to write clean, compelling op-eds, pitches, or crisis statements under tight deadlines.
3. Overpromising media placements without realistic assessment of newsroom cycles.

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I craft winning, high-stakes narratives that cut through the noise and shift public opinion in the most competitive media landscapes.

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