Digital PR Consultant

Evolved Search is an award-winning, dynamic, and ambitious digital marketing agency based in Newcastle upon Tyne. We deliver data-led and creative SEO, PPC, Content Marketing, Digital PR & CRO services for brands and companies across a wide range of sectors, with a particular focus on those in Retail, Automotive, and Finance.

We differentiate ourselves by providing market-leading and game-changing results on client campaigns acquired thanks to deep knowledge, constant learning, and years of experience managing Organic and Paid strategies.

With ambitious growth plans for the coming 5 years, there’s never been a more exciting time to join the Evolved Search team. We’re big on people, offering exciting and genuine opportunities to develop and progress, and offer a healthy dose of team member perks that go way beyond the ordinary.

Please note, if we receive a high response for this role we may close the campaign early.

The key focus within your client-facing role will be the delivery of digital PR campaigns and ownership of associated results, demonstrating an ability to work creatively, proactively, and independently where required.

You will be responsible for leading on or supporting client projects, executing all required project deliverables, and achieving milestones that align with the client’s overall strategy. This is a role with autonomy, endless opportunities to be creative, and the chance to be part of award-winning work that makes headlines.

Day to-day-you will ensure that campaigns produced by yourself – or for your clients by others in the team – are of a high standard, delivered within timescales, and hit KPIs for the client.

Key responsibilities and duties will include but are not limited to:

• Responsible for ensuring the delivery of campaigns that consistently hit KPIs for clients within agreed timescales.
• Providing strategic direction for the client from a digital PR perspective, consulting with your line manager on significant proposed changes to the account.
• Monitoring performance of campaigns, identifying areas of improvement and communicating any concerns to your line manager as and when appropriate.
• Communicating anything ‘digital PR’ for your clients, attending client calls and meetings where required.
• Working effectively and collaboratively with Account Managers and colleagues across the business to ensure campaigns run smoothly, proactively communicating updates to both Account Managers and your line manager, as well as answering queries promptly.
• Staying up-to-date with the latest industry news and trends and communicating this with colleagues and clients.
• Producing insights for the Evolved Search blog.
• Taking part in ideation sessions from a Digital PR perspective and deciding suitable ideas for clients based on our digital PR strategy, bringing detailed research to every brainstorm and clearly communicating target sites to all participants.
• Creating and delivering campaigns from start to finish, securing exceptional coverage and results for clients.
• Providing digital PR support with an understanding of the latest best practice, techniques, technology, and terminology.

We’re after someone who can slot into the team and take on the responsibility for a diverse range of client accounts.  

Other desirable skills and attributes include:

• At least 2 years experience in Digital PR, or a similar discipline.
• Demonstrable experience in overseeing campaigns that generate coverage and links in target areas for the client, which may include national, regional, and local publications.
• Demonstrable knowledge of SEO best practices as relates to digital PR, as well as an understanding of digital PR’s value in the overall SEO strategy.
• Exceptional content writing skills, with the ability to deliver all tasks associated with a campaign to a high standard, from ideation and research to copywriting, prospecting, outreach, and reporting.
• Proactive and independent working where required.
• Able to give, as well as receive, constructive criticism and provide feedback to team members, managers, and clients as it pertains to campaigns.
• Excellent, persuasive verbal and written communication skills, both internally and in client-facing situations.
• Enthusiastic, willing to learn, and happy to share ideas with clients and colleagues alike.
• Able to confidently use tools such as Mailshake, Moz, Majestic, Ahrefs, SEMRush, SharedCount, and Google Analytics or equivalent software, to review performance and increase value to the client.

Skills and experience like yours come at a price, we get it. In addition to a fair and competitive salary (DOE), we also offer our team members:

• A rewarding role with a clear progression route, evolving salary, and the chance to be part of a specialist, award-winning agency.
• A 4-day working week! We’re one of the only employers in the North East to offer a 4-day week as standard with no impact on pay.
• A fantastic working environment with a talented, friendly, cooperative team.
• Flexible working and time off in lieu.
• An enhanced holiday package that offers way more than your average. 36 paid days off p/a, in fact!
• Regular social activities, charity initiatives, conferences, awards, and events, plus one of the best Christmas parties in the biz.
• Premium private health insurance.
• Fantastic, spacious offices slap-bang in the middle of central Newcastle with restaurants and bars on the doorstep, plenty of office dogs, free snacks and a super relaxed culture, for when you want to be in an office environment.  Employees can decide on a working pattern that suits their lifestyle and working preferences, with a mixture of office-based and working from home days.
• Access to our Company perks and benefits platform, Perkbox.
• Advanced maternity, paternity and adoption packages.
• A personal training budget to help you progress, learn and develop in your role.
• A time allowance for charity work, enabling you to support causes you’re passionate about during working hours.

Feel free to discover more about our Culture and Benefits here.

If this all sounds good to you, and this role matches your expertise and experience, then we’d love to hear from you!

Upload your CV and (ideally) a Cover Letter via the form on this page. Tell us why you’re the perfect candidate and what you’d bring to the role.

Your data will be processed in line with our Privacy Policy and we will contact you if your application is successful to progress through to the interview stage.

We respond to all candidates as standard, but please be patient with us as it may take us the duration of the campaign to get back to you. We like to keep candidate details on file if the role we have live may not be for you, but we absolutely need you in our team. We do this by holding your details in our talent pool in line with our GDPR policy.

Note: We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage/civil partnerships.