Account Director, Global Health Content Development

Account Director, Corporate Social Good

Strong Writer with Passion for Global Health

Remote from NY or DC

Fenton is the social change agency taking on the world’s toughest challenges in human rights, social and economic justice, environment, education and public health. Primed with deep issue expertise and powered by the creativity and passion of 100 professionals working across the country, we create strategies for clients to help build a more just, equitable and sustainable world. A fast growing and award-winning agency, we lead the industry in diverse representation as 55% of our entire staff and 62% of our leadership team are people of color. We are women-led as 74% of our staff are women.

We are a culture steeped in social change and activism, with a collaborative work environment, excellent benefits and a strong sense of purpose and community across the agency.  Fenton is a remote-forward agency. Staff work primarily from home but also gather in person as needed in co-working spaces.  Our employees reside in the New York City, Washington DC, Los Angeles and in the Bay Area regions.

Our clients are foundations, advocacy groups and global brands. We develop and execute strategic public awareness campaigns and offer a wide range of communications services including campaign messaging, media relations, digital strategy, and branding.

We are currently seeking an Account Director with a passion for corporate social good, with a particular emphasis on global health and racial equity.  They will oversee a project content development team focused on addressing inequities in access to healthcare in the U.S. and around the world and championing health workers, providing direction for client-facing and internal strategy, communication infrastructure, quality assurance processes, team workflow and assignments.

 This role requires a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of integrated agency capabilities and a background in building well-rounded communications campaigns for purpose-led brands, including but not limited to branding, digital content creation and platforms, earned media strategy and creative storytelling. 

For this particular position, working from the east coast is a requirement, either NY or DC.

Essential responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Serve in a leadership role over all content development on a global health account, including executive leader posts, blogs and other non-digital content, providing guidance on tone, messaging, and approach.
• Lead story conception & interviewing.
• Determine writing assignments and provide strong editorial eye and guidance to the content development team.
• Identify opportunities for plus-ups; draft proposals, scope and work orders.
• Conduct  earned media strategies and related writing including pitches, talking points, statements and more.
• Serve as a detail-oriented project manager, communicating content development tasks and progress statuses throughout Fenton’s largest account team.
• Work closely with parallel workstream leads, developing integrated strategies across strategic communications, digital, and creative.
• Lead or delegate leadership of client requests and content development calls.
• Approve all content for multiple workstreams.
• Provide counsel on story conception and interviewing, as requested.

Qualifications:

• 5-7 years’ experience in integrated communications, including traditional and digital communications, agency, or demonstrated equivalent experience in NGO or government public relations.
• Strong writing skills with demonstrated experience creating long and short-form content designed to raise awareness, influence and change opinions/behavior on corporate purpose, including but not limited  to issues related to health equity, DEI, sustainability and more.
• Ability to think holistically, beyond the content development workstream, to concept multimedia storytelling approaches
• Experience in a public relations or advertising agency highly desirable; firm understanding of client billing process, client contracts and customer service.
• Experience in global health, racial health equity or corporate social responsibility required.
• Strong and proven skills in project management (staff, budget and client relations).
• Experience creating, launching and optimizing integrated communications campaigns, across social media, editorial, thought leadership and paid media.
• Ability to analyze and optimize campaigns and make decisions based on the data.
• Demonstrated business development, including proposal development, pitching and landing new business skills.
• 2-4 years’ staff management and mentoring experience, including direct management of a staff at varying careers levels.
• Ability to juggle multiple tasks under tight deadlines, and interact and perform in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively – both verbal and nonverbal, with various levels of staff, clients, contractors, and media.
• Demonstrated resourcefulness, optimism and flexibility in approach to project assignment.
• For this particular position, working from the east coast is a requirement, either NY or DC.

  Fenton Offers

• Commitment to pay equity practices
• Starting Salary = $100,000
• Year-end discretionary bonus;
• New business commission incentive;
• Access to the Fenton Learning Lab, the agency’s proprietary professional development portal.
• Comprehensive healthcare plans with generous employer premium contribution
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA);
• 401K with employer match (50% up to 6% of your salary, eligible at 90 days of employment);
• Profit sharing plan (2-4% of total W2 earnings, eligible after 2 years of employment);
• Flexible PTO for exempt staff and generous accrual policy for non-exempt staff;
• 11 paid company holidays;
• Summer Fridays - option to kick off your weekend early every Friday at 2:00 between Memorial Day and Labor Day (as client workload allows);
• Discretionary company closing between the Christmas and New Year’s holidays;
• Pre-tax commuter benefits via WageWorks
• Non-taxable mobile phone reimbursement ($100/mth);
• We have adopted a hybrid remote/in-office worksite model. We require all employees to live within a 35-mile radius of any one of our four strategic hubs (New York, D.C, LA or SF).  You have the option to work remotely from your home and will travel to Company meetings/events as needed, or you can work from any one of our shared workspaces.
• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

  Fenton is an anti-racist and intersectional organization that prioritizes the needs of those who have been historically marginalized or oppressed.  We do the work of creating positive social change as an act of repairing the harm done to those who have been and are currently disenfranchised across racial, gender, sexual orientation and preference, religious and other marginalized backgrounds.  We are committed to doing work that is rooted in justice and equity and continuing to learn how to do this work better. You can read our full DEI statement here:  https://fenton.com/dei-statement/

People of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities and women are strongly encouraged to apply. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are committed to building and nurturing a diverse and inclusive staff. We believe that our firm’s continued success is driven by hiring and retaining high caliber staff from all backgrounds, experiences, identities, and orientations. We are committed to supporting our staff in growing their careers.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please email Human Resources (lgomez@fenton.com) and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.