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M+R Strategic Services is looking for a senior public relations professional to join our communications team. M+R’s experienced, award-winning media relations division includes former journalists and PR professionals with years of electoral, issue campaign, and product promotion experience. We are looking to fill this full-time position in our Washington, DC office. M+R’s communications team works with some of today’s leading non-profits and causes: helping end breast cancer; save endangered wildlife; promote corporate responsibility, energy efficiency and renewable energy; stop pollution; curb tobacco use; increase voter turnout; end genocide and torture in Darfur; protect women’s rights; and fight global poverty. M+R’s media team and clients will stretch your creativity in developing new strategies for issues and causes that matter. The successful candidate will support M+R’s Senior Vice President of Communications in a variety of responsibilities ranging from client management to managing and mentoring junior staff. The Associate Communications Director will possess exemplary client management and service acumen, media relations and writing skills, and demonstrated ability to create high-impact outreach strategies that involve multiple forms of earned media - feature stories, opinion pieces and editorials. He/she will also possess: Ability to conceive and implement communications strategies with multiple outreach tactics, ranging from earned media to marketing and sponsorship plans; Proven track record of securing major local and national media coverage including feature stories, opinion pieces and editorials, on a range of issues demonstrated with press clippings and print and broadcast media references; Demonstrated expertise writing for a variety of media - including press materials, new business proposals, communications plans, Web-based materials and internal documents; Confidence and comfort giving presentations to clients, in new business settings; Excellent editing skills; General knowledge of state and federal political process; History of exemplary client service, relations and management as demonstrated through previous client references; Experience managing teams of at least three individuals; and A minimum of six years relevant professional experience with some public relations agency experience preferred. M+R expects the person in the position to contribute to the growth and success of the communications division and the firm. The candidate should have strong organizational and interpersonal skills, be detail-oriented and, and work productively with communications team colleagues and independent consultants, as well as colleagues in M+R’s field, lobbying, and e-advocacy divisions.. Right person for the job is a highly motivated, self-starter who takes direction well but also can also work independently, thrives on variety and can shift directions seamlessly. Email reckert@mrss.com.