AKI is the Institute for the Development of Creative Industries in Moscow. The agency helps Moscow companies in the fields of video games and animation, fashion, design, publishing, cinema, music, and contemporary art to grow, enter foreign markets and earn money, and also develops urban infrastructure: a video game and animation cluster, spaces and workshops.
Responsibilities:
- Formulate the communication strategy and PR agenda for the agency and its projects. Ensure consistency of communications across all industry sectors.
- Defend the strategy, media plans, KPIs, and budget of the division before the agency's management and the founder.
- Manage the agency's reputation. Develop relationships with federal, business, city, and industry media, initiate special projects and media partnerships. Manage anti-crisis communications.
- Define the content strategy and development of own channels. Set goals for advertising campaigns and work with opinion leaders, be responsible for their results.
- Manage the production and promotion of the agency's major city events — from concept to final evaluation. Develop own event formats.
- Manage communication support for the agency's project office — a portfolio of projects in the creative industries. Formulate new products and formats.
- Lead the promotion of Moscow's creative industries abroad: communication strategies for international exhibitions and business missions in Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern markets, work with foreign partners and journalists.
- Develop revenue from the agency's communication assets: advertising and partnership packages for events, promotion of commercial infrastructure.
- Lead the management team: set goals, distribute areas of responsibility, develop employees. Build work with agencies and contractors: task setting, quality control, performance evaluation.
- Be responsible for the contractual and procurement work of the division: procurement planning, contract execution, acceptance of results.
- Build a system for evaluating communications and effectiveness.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience in communications, including 3+ years in a management position.
- Experience in full-cycle communications: media, content and digital, events.
- Experience in managing contractual work and preparing procurement documentation, including in government or subordinate organizations.
- Knowledge of the Russian media market, established contacts in federal and business media.
- Experience in team management and building PR service processes.
- English language at a fluent level.
- Systems thinking, ability to manage priorities and find solutions that consider the interests of different parties.
Conditions:
- Employment according to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation.
- 5/2 schedule, office-based work format.
- Office in the center of Moscow (metro Okhotny Ryad, Arbatskaya).
- Fixed-term employment contract
