PR Creative Director

Job DescriptionFantastic Creative Director or mid-weight Creative role working in a highly respected independent PR & comms agency.Reporting to and working closely with the agency’s lead creative director, this is a role for a strategic and fresh-thinking creative, who can manifest a big idea and is keen to carve out their own space. It’s less about your current title and more about your attitude and where you want to develop and take your career.The brief is fairly loose, so you might currently be working in the creative team of a networked agency, a creative strategist (with earned PR agency experience) in an ad agency or be in a large independent comms agency and part of the creative function. You must be able to demonstrate some experience in a creative role within an agency setting.The Good Stuff:£50k –£70k (level and experience-dependent).accessible office.and hybrid working.healthcare.bonus.package.opportunities for growth, responsibility and taking the lead.A bit about the agency:Multi-award winning. Independent. Mid-sized. Proud B-Corp. This agency taps into topical and cultural issues to bring clients’ brands, products and services to life through creative, cause-driven campaigns and purposeful storytelling.The team is creative and collaborative, and everyone is driven to do work that makes a difference. Here you’ll find independent thinkers who are proud of the agency and who tend to stay and develop their careers rather than leaving for more.Agile and fluid with a big global brand portfolio, a team producing outstanding work that hits outside of the obvious or ordinary and ambitious, considered growth plans. An agency that publishes its gender pay gap, provides unconscious bias training and wants to encourage diverse thinking by attracting and supporting those from diverse backgrounds.What is the role and what will you be doing:You'll be working with and reporting into the creative director to create and deliver earned-first campaigns built from data, insights and consumer conversations. Developing conceptual ideas that will influence how an audience thinks, feels and does by building campaigns based on thought leadership and corporate creativity.Project managing the campaign, pulling everything together from costings and budgets, to briefing designers and the social team and bringing the ideas to life.Creative brainstorms, facilitating and nurturing creative contributions agency-wide, allowing everyone’s ideas to be heard and inspiring the team to be imaginative and daring.Designing, creating and developing pitch decks, presenting the creative concept and strategy to the team for existing clients and new business. Project managing photoshoots, protecting the creative whilst being open to change and instinctively understanding what makes good editorial content.About you:Your creative portfolio and copywriting skills are *chefs kiss* and you fully understand the structure of an earned/PR campaign, how it’s put together and executed and will have experience across earned / integrated work.You are resilient and let rejection go over your head; not every idea will work, or will make it to the pitch deck, and that’s ok. Every day is a learning experience and a chance to develop creative thinking. You’re not a yes person and can assert your viewpoint in the face of resistance.You are organised with attention to detail and an eye for the visual. You can self-motivate, team-motivate and work things out. You encourage your team and colleagues to spot trends and absorb the world around them.You are passionate about working on campaigns that have a purpose and can generate ideas outside of the ordinary. You’re a cause-driven individual with a strong moral compass and social conscience, who is tapped into cultural touchpoints.You’re fresh-thinking, intuitive, and obsessed with end-to-end campaign ideas. You’re tapped into social media, trends and the online world but also someone who takes in what’s going on around them.If you’re not sure that you fit the whole brief but you have most of the important creative comms stuff, we’d rather have a conversation with you than for you to self-deselect, so please get in touch to chat. If you have no obvious experience in a creative PR, comms, advertising or marketing role, you will not be considered.At BoldMove we support all accessibility requirements. Our support and services are designed for and can be adapted for everyone. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds and understand that not everyone starts from the same place. If there is anything we can do to make our processes better for you and to allow you to show up as your best and most comfortable self, please tell us. We also understand that some people require alternative communication, application, or interview methods, and may also benefit from having an overview of what might be covered during a call or video interview sent to them in advance. This isn’t a problem for us to accommodate.