Media Analyst Jobs

Job Title: Media Analyst

Client Location: Bay Area, CA (Location Required)

Starting: 07/21/2023

Salary/Pay Rate: $31.03 - $34.48 an hour

Hours: Full-time

Duration: 1 Year

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Aquent's Client is looking for a media analyst to join our Strategic Response Communications team to analyze press coverage and social media conversation in the US.

The analyst should have solid numeric and quantitative analysis skills. The analyst will be responsible for monitoring news cycles, providing qualitative analyses as well as quantitative data insights for the company's most pressing issues. Additionally, this role will sit at the heart of the company's global effort to quantify the impact of the work of its communications team for all reactive as well as proactive activity.

The ideal candidate will excel at working collaboratively with colleagues all over the world and can consistently deliver high-quality work even under severe time constraints. Candidates should be strong communicators. Attention to detail, ability to remain flexible in a fast-paced environment, strong qualitative and quantitative analysis skills as well as organizational skills are critical.

This role is ideal for someone who has had firsthand experience in a journalism and/or communications career, in academic research, at a think tank, or after working for a media agency, media analysis firm, or media measurement platform. By analyzing media activity, you will gain a thorough understanding of how to define the impact of proactive and reactive media cycles at a very large scale around the world. This position will be the ideal basis for a further career in the communications team of this company or in some of the world’s largest organizations in the public eye.

Responsibilities:

• Read, analyze, and summarize media coverage of important company issues
• Support the communications team in developing meaningful success metrics for its campaigns and initiatives across traditional (news) media outlets as well as owned, paid-for and earned social media activity
• Create reports with media insights (including visualization) to assess the impact of different news cycles and inform future strategy
• Inform the wider team on news cycles and policy issues domestically and internationally, and put them into their local context

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in a media analysis, research, journalistic, communications or related role, or working for a media agency, media analysis firm, a media measurement platform or think tank
• Experience drafting messaging materials; writing news summaries is a plus
• Experience owning multiple deliverables and working in a deadline driven environment
• Familiarity with the media market in the US
• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Broadcast, Political Science, Marketing, Economics, Statistics or related field

Nice to Have Skills:

• Experience in carrying out measurement projects using data platforms to monitor media coverage and analyze social media conversation
• Experience in handling data sets and visualizing data a plus
• Experience in working with media monitoring tools
• Understanding of metrics and analytics within the media environment

The target hiring compensation range for this role is the equivalent of $31.03 - $34.48 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location. Additional benefits offered may include; medical health insurance and dental insurance, life insurance, and eligibility to participate in 401k plan with company match.