We believe in the power of communications to help businesses and communities fight climate change, the defining problem of our time. We are looking for driven, creative and collaborative team members who feel the same way.
Benecomms offers competitive salaries, a variety of benefits, and volunteering opportunities. We also support team members on their career journeys through online learning and opportunities to travel to events and conferences such as Climate Week.
Most important, we enjoy our teammates and work hard to cultivate a rewarding, inclusive and fun environment.
Account Manager
Do you love all things organization but still like to flex your creative muscles? Thrive off to-do lists? You’ve met your match!
Benecomms is seeking a detail-oriented project manager to join our team. This person will run point on multiple accounts throughout the agency, collaborating with the marketing and PR teams to ensure overall success for the client.
Requirements:
- You’re passionate about sustainability and a carbon negative world!
- You have a minimum of 3-4 years of experience supporting projects in an Account Service or Project Management role at a digital, advertising, or PR agency.
- Cross-functional experience (CRM, social, marketing, advertising, traditional, PR) is a plus.
- Excellent analytical skills and strategic thinking – holding both a strong IQ and EQ and as adept at reading data for insights as you are at reading clients for feedback.
- Effective time management, impeccable organization, and the flexibility to adapt quickly to changes.
- Proven leadership experience.
- Communicate regularly with clients to ensure an ongoing rapport and insight into their business. Serve as the primary point of contact for the client and lead cross departmental communication.
- Handle day-to-day activities, oversee execution of approved proposals and project timelines for assigned clients and provide regular client updates.
- Actively manage and consistently meet deadlines, set realistic expectations, and communicate early (internally and with clients) if deadlines need to be adjusted.
- Present new opportunities to drive growth for clients.
Senior PR Director
Do you have a talent for media relations or journalism? Enjoy research or science? Have a knack for ferreting out new angles? We are a marketing agency with strong roots in PR. Our work is driven by storytelling, and in our industry — climate tech and sustainability — our goal is to spotlight thought leaders and ingenious solutions helping to fight climate change.
Benecomms is seeking an experienced media relations pro to lead our team. This person will be comfortable working with an array of industries within climate tech (from carbon capture to climate financial risk), talking through new angles daily and pitching journalists, writing press releases, ghostwriting articles and supporting content creation for email marketing.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications or related field and 4+ years of experience.
- Strong writing skills a must.
- Track record of success working in fast-paced environments like a newsroom, agency, or startup.
- Results-oriented.
- Experience with email marketing a plus.
- Experience in science, financial services or technology a plus.
- Experience with platforms such as Cision, Hubspot and Asana a plus.
Content Writer
Are you passionate about using storytelling to increase awareness, drive credibility and influence business outcomes? Do you light up when talking about solving climate change and finding solutions to the world’s biggest problem?
We’re looking for a talented writer to join the Benecomms team as a primary content producer responsible for writing blog posts and bylines, drafting email marketing, and pitching in on day-to-day PR support from project managing to developing messaging.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop compelling written assets on sustainability and climate technology topics that resonate with our clients’ target audiences, with an eye toward SEO.
- Come up with fresh ideas and angles on how our clients’ solutions resonate with new and potential customers and translate them into engaging messages and content.
- Translate complex and/or long-form content into digestible bites; have a knack for what makes a good headline or nut graf.
- 1-3 years of editorial and/or newsroom experience, preferably in the B2B and/or sustainability space.
- Passion for storytelling, interviewing, writing, and editing.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven ability to quickly learn about new technologies and industry trends.
- Experience in an agency setting or juggling multiple clients a plus.
- Experience with platforms such as Hubspot and Asana a plus.
Designer
Do you have an eye for design? Do you enjoy creating original graphics and designing content? Are you a detail-oriented person? Then this may just be the right fit for you.
Benecomms, a fast-growing marketing and PR agency based in Wake Forest, NC focused on business-to-business climate change and sustainability communications, is seeking a graphic designer to join our team. This person will create original graphic content and optimize existing content for clients throughout the agency as a member of the marketing team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conceptualize visuals based on requirements
- Create and design various materials for print and digital collateral
- Ensure projects are completed with high quality and on schedule
- Prioritize and manage multiple projects within design specifications
- Prepare drafts and present ideas to the marketing team
- Perform retouching and manipulation of images
- Work with a wide range of media and use graphic design software
- Use client color codes and branding guidelines for each graphic
- Work with marketing manager and copywriters to produce final design
- Test graphics across various media
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, multimedia design, or related field
- A passion for sustainability and a carbon-negative world!
- A minimum of 4-5 years creating graphic content for businesses or brands
- Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies and apply them to day-to-day operations and activities
- Excellent eye for design and detail
- Strong analytical skills
- Effective time management, impeccable organization, and the flexibility to adapt quickly to changes.
- Knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, InDesign, and other graphic design software
Interested? We’d love to hear from you! Send your resume to susan@benecomms.io.
Finance Manager
Do you have an eye for financial reports? Do you enjoy working with numbers and creating budgets? Are you a detail-oriented person? Then this may just be the right fit for you.
Benecomms, an award-winning PR and marketing agency specializing in sustainability and climate change, is seeking a finance manager. The position can be part time (20+ hours per week) or fulltime (with benefits) and is based in our Wake Forest, NC office. This person would report to the company President and work hand in hand with our operations team. This position would be responsible for helping to build and maintain company financial strategy, including:
Key Responsibilities:
- Working with our bookkeeper and leadership to model hourly billing projections and utilization based on contract values, feeding back intelligence to our client service teams in order to streamline work and optimize profitability
- Own forecasting and agency budgeting process and management for current clients and new business pipeline; partner with leadership team on accountability for meeting financial targets
- Oversee client invoicing and A/R to optimize agency cashflow; partner with account leadership to ensure client invoicing integrity.
- Develop and implement a formal program estimation process to support contract development and ensure profitabile contract values.
- Partner with agency account leadership to develop accurate and profitable client program estimates.
- Onboard new clients into the agency infrastructure including time keeping and financial systems; this includes ensuring proper payment protocol is established between the client and agency
- Optimizing our hourly billing system for best use cases.
- Overseeing and steering accounts payable and receivables strategy.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance or related field
- A minimum of 4-5 years experience in a finance-related position
- Good communication skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Strong analytical skills
- Effective time management, impeccable organization, and the flexibility to adapt quickly to changes.
- Knowledge of Quickbooks and other financial software
- A passion for sustainability and a carbon-negative world!
Interested? We’d love to hear from you! Send your resume to susan@benecomms.io.