Forbes Tate Partners (FTP) is a full-service public affairs consultancy specializing in bipartisan federal and state government relations, strategic communications, grassroots and grasstops advocacy, issue campaigns, corporate development, and technology strategy.

Our seasoned team works together closely to consistently meet clients’ needs and expectations. At FTP, we have a special focus on executing high-profile, integrated campaigns at the national and local level and a proven record of generating positive results for our clients.

How to Apply

Interested parties should send their resume, cover letter, and one writing sample (three pages or less) to careers@forbes-tate.com with the subject line of the position and departments (i.e. Analyst, Public Affairs). Please save each attachment with your full name (first and last name) and document title. For example: John Smith Resume, John Smith Cover Letter, John Smith Writing Sample.

No calls, emails, or faxes please. Qualified candidates will be contacted for an interview. FTP is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining an inclusive and diverse work environment.

Employment Opportunities

• Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Public Affairs
• Director of Paid Media, Digital, Public Affairs
• Creative Director, Digital, Public Affairs
• Director, State Field Campaigns, Public Affairs
• Internships

Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Public Affairs

Position Description

The Vice President of Marketing and Business Development is a pivotal leadership position driving the firm’s growth and visibility across all practice areas at FTP. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the marketing strategy of a leading government and public affairs advocacy firm. This role is responsible for creating, directing, and implementing FTP’s business development and marketing activities for the firm’s practice areas, including Public Affairs, Government Relations, State Advocacy, and Digital practices. The success of this role will be measured by increased awareness and recognition of the firm’s capabilities in the market, client acquisition across all practice areas, and securing visibility opportunities for the firm and its leadership. Salary for this position ranges from $93,000-$127,000.

Primary responsibilities

• Develop and execute comprehensive marketing and business development strategies for the firm.
• Create marketing materials, including capabilities decks and generalized collateral.
• Identify and implement appropriate marketing and communications channels.
• Develop and oversee the firm’s overall marketing and visibility program.
• Generate and produce unique and tailored pitch decks and related campaign materials for individual client pursuits.
• Identify and create high-impact visibility opportunities for the firm and its senior leadership.
• Implement a combination of paid, earned, and owned tactics to grow the firm’s eminence and reputation.
• Leverage marketing channels to enhance FTP’s visibility and reputation
• Drive lead generation and client acquisition initiatives.
• Collaborate with practice leaders and team members across FTP to support marketing and business development efforts.
• Monitor and report on the effectiveness of marketing and business development activities.
• Perform other duties as necessary to achieve departmental goals.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of relevant experience in marketing and business development
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in marketing, business, communications, or related field
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, including Microsoft Excel
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills with demonstrated ability to manage across different personality styles
• Exceptional organizational and priority management skills
• Ability to effectively manage up and manage multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced environment
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills
• In-depth understanding of various marketing channels and tactics
• Demonstrated success in developing and implementing marketing strategies
• Sense of urgency; willingness and ability to meet and exceed established deadlines
• Proficiency in creating high-quality marketing materials and presentations

Additional required professional attributes include:  

• Industry-specific experience, in professional services or public affairs
• Advanced degree from an accredited university in marketing, business, communications or related field

Director of Paid Media, Digital, Public Affairs

Position Description

As Director of Paid Media, you will be responsible for leading a team helping to develop digital media strategies and plans to achieve clients’ goals. This is a client-facing role, and the ideal candidate will have experience managing clients’, expectations, and KPIs. You will lead our paid advertising team and manage the content creation process for multiple clients from start to finish. Your creative thinking skills, strategic insight, and collaboration will be essential to your success. Salary for this position ranges from $110,000-$130,000.

Ideal candidates for this role should be creative and innovative, digitally and multimedia savvy, well-organized, and an excellent writer and communicator. Candidates should have a firm grasp of different digital touchpoints, high awareness of media and politics, and comfort working in a fast-paced environment.  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university.
• 4 – 6 years of digital advertising experience at a public affairs or advertising agency.
• Experience managing and leading a team of paid media strategists.
• Experience buying and managing cross-platform digital advertising programs, utilizing various assets including programmatic, social, search, display, video, and mobile.
• Experience managing awareness (branding or message) and acquisition programs.
• Social buying experience on Meta, LinkedIn, Twitter (bonus points: Reddit, TikTok, Snapchat).
• Understanding of social media metrics and how to optimize content based on analytics.
• Experience working under deadlines and managing multiple client projects/requests at once.
• Working knowledge of Washington D.C., national politics, and media.
• The candidate is highly organized and has a strong attention to detail.

Primary Responsibilities

• Strategic thinker and planning with a deep understanding of advertising platforms and acquisition channels.   
• Lead, manage, and mentor team of strategists.   
• Build relationships with clients and understand their goals.   
• Develop paid advertising campaign strategies and advertising plans across channels including programmatic display and video, paid search and paid social.   
• Manage placement, execution, and optimization of advertising campaigns.  
• Work with accounting team to track, invoice, and budget paid media spending appropriately  
• Provide an active voice in media strategies, optimization, and opportunities for improvement in media process and execution.  
• Understand the value and role of evolving digital platform in Public Affairs, and stay abreast of industry trends, best practices and targeting techniques to continually enhance digital media plans and campaign performance.  
• Serve as a primary source of digital expertise within FTP.   
• Aid in new business proposal writing, planning, and pitching process. 

Creative Director, Digital, Public Affairs

Position Description

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Creative Director to lead the creative vision for our clients’ advocacy, digital, and communications campaigns. This role will focus on developing innovative and compelling creative materials across a range of mediums, including internal documents, pitch decks, ad creative, video production, websites, logos and branding, and storytelling. The Creative Director will play a key role in shaping how we communicate powerful narratives that drive policy changes and influence public opinion. This position is full-time salaried, with benefits and paid holidays. Salary for this position ranges from $155,000-$175,000.

Qualifications

Ideal candidates will have a bachelor’s degree. Prior experience of 7+ years in a creative leadership role, preferably within an agency or public affairs environment is helpful. 

Additional required professional attributes include: 

• Strong portfolio showcasing expertise in document design, branding, advertising, and multimedia content creation. 
• Proven ability to develop and execute creative strategies across multiple platforms, including digital, video, print, and web. 
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to clearly present and defend creative concepts to internal teams and clients. 
• Experience managing creative teams and collaborating with cross-functional teams. 
• Proficiency in design software such as Figma, and experience with video production tools and web design platforms. 
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with multiple ongoing projects and tight deadlines. 
• A passion for storytelling and advocacy, with a keen understanding of how to use creative to influence public opinion and policy.  

Primary Responsibilities

• Creative Leadership: Develop and lead the overall creative strategy for client campaigns, ensuring brand consistency and storytelling excellence across all deliverables. 
• Document Design: Oversee the development of visually compelling internal documents, reports, and pitch decks that effectively communicate the strategic direction and messaging for clients. 
• Advertising Creative: Direct the conceptualization and production of ad creatives (digital, print, social media, video, CTV) to resonate with target audiences and drive engagement for public affairs campaigns. 
• Video Production: Guide the production of high-quality video content, from scriptwriting and storyboarding to post-production, ensuring that the visual storytelling aligns with campaign goals and messaging. 
• Website & Digital Presence: Lead website development projects, ensuring the design, user experience, and messaging reflect the client’s brand and campaign objectives. 
• Branding & Logos: Oversee the creation of brand identities, including logo design, color schemes, and visual style guides, ensuring they effectively communicate the mission and values of our clients and their initiatives. 
• Messaging & Storytelling: Craft and refine messaging frameworks, key talking points, and campaign narratives that articulate the purpose and goals of the advocacy campaigns in an engaging and persuasive manner. 
• Collaboration: Work closely with strategy, account, and media teams to ensure creative materials align with broader campaign strategies and objectives. 
• Team Leadership: Manage and mentor a creative team of designers, copywriters, videographers, and other creative professionals, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment. 
• Client Engagement: Present creative concepts and campaign materials to clients, incorporating feedback to ensure the final product exceeds client expectations. 

Director, State Field Campaigns, Public Affairs

Position Description

The Public Affairs team specializes in crafting strong and compelling messages, devising smart communications and advocacy strategies, engaging the right audiences, and influencing public opinion to deliver results for our clients. The Director of State Field Campaigns will be responsible for helping to develop and manage state public affairs advocacy campaigns to advance clients’ policy goals.

This is a client-facing role. The success of this role will be measured by your creative thinking skills, strategic insight, understanding of various policy issues and state political dynamics, and collaboration across cross-functional teams.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop, execute, and manage strategy, execution, and optimization of communications campaigns working closely with third-party state fields teams and vendors.
• Oversee deliverables across channels, including message development, media relations, coalition building, social media, paid advertising, and events.
• Lead, manage, and mentor team of strategists.
• Create, review, contribute to, and approve campaign materials, including press releases, talking points, editorial content, and social media.
• Build relationships with clients and understanding their goals.
• Track and regularly report campaign success and deliverables.
• Collaborate with accounting team to track, invoice, and budget spending appropriately.
• Serve as a primary source of state public affairs expertise within FTP.
• Aid in new business proposal writing, planning, and pitching process.
• Mentor and manage team members.
• Provide an active voice in campaign strategies, including media relations and grassroots/grasstops advocacy.
• Regularly monitor, report, and evaluate campaign success, deliverables, and field team vendors.
• Perform other duties as necessary to achieve departmental goals.

To be successful you will need:

• 4-6 years of relevant experience
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, including Microsoft Excel
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills with demonstrated ability to manage across different personality styles
• Exceptional organizational and priority management skills
• Experience managing and executing grassroots and grasstops campaigns at the state and federal level
• Ability to effectively manage up and manage multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced environment
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills
• In-depth understanding of Washington, D.C., national and state politics, and media
• Demonstrated success in managing multiple client projects and requests at once
• Sense of urgency; willingness and ability to meet and exceed established deadlines
• Proficiency in creating and developing media strategies and strategies communications material

We prefer that you have:

• Industry-specific experience, managing strategic campaigns, working with third-party vendors, overseeing budgets, and tracking and meetings KPIs
• Advanced degree from an accredited university

Additional Information

May require occasional travel and attendance at industry events.

While performing the duties of this job, employees are regularly required to sit, walk, and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to handle, feel, or operate standard office equipment; reach with hands and arms; and lift up to 25 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Forbes Tate Partners, LLC (FTP) is an equal-opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. FTP does not discriminate based on disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected under federal, state, or local laws.

Internship Opportunities

The FTP Internship Program offers students and recent graduates substantive, practical, and hands-on experience working at the nexus between the public and private sectors. Our program exposes interns to the daily workings of a highly reputable government relations and public affairs firm and affords them the opportunity to work specifically with our Insights, Public Affairs, Research and Policy Analysis, or State Government Relations Teams.

Insights
Interns contribute to the development of media analysis, survey design, and focus groups. Interns should be excited about digging deeper into the nuts and bolts of data generation and analysis. Please click here for the Insights Intern application. 

Public Affairs (PA)
Interns conduct research, write analyses, draft media content (including social media posts), prepare memos for meetings, and assist principals with client-facing projects. Please click here for the PA Intern application. 

Research and Policy Analysis (RPA)
Interns conduct legislative and policy analyses, attend and report on congressional hearings and briefings, and draft a broad array of research memoranda on issues including health care, tax, energy, natural resources, financial services, and more. Please click here for the RPA Intern application. 

State Government Relations
Interns conduct policy research, track client deliverables, analyze state legislation and regulations, track state political and issue dynamics, write analyses, and assist principals with client-facing projects. Interns should have an interest in state government policy and politics across all 50 states. Please click here for the State Intern application. 

FTP hires paid interns each spring, summer, and fall semesters. Interns are paid $17.50/hour. Interested applicants can send a resume, cover letter, and two professional writing samples to internprogram@forbes-tate.com. Writing samples should be no more than 3 pages in length. Items should be sent as an attachment labeled with your name (ex. John Smith Resume) with the subject line Internship Program – Spring 2024.

Please note that applications are only accepted during the dates listed. Session dates, application availability and deadlines are below:

2025 Internship Sessions

Spring Semester	Summer Semester	Fall Semester
January 6 – May 16	May 19 – August 8	September 2 – December 12
Applications Accepted: October 15 – November 15, 2024	Applications Accepted: March 10 – April 11, 2025	Applications Accepted: June 16 – July 18, 2025

Forbes Tate Partners is an equal-opportunity employer.