Media Analyst

BCforward is currently seeking highly motivated Linguist III, Remote role, West coast preferred, need someone who is authorized to work independently without any sponsorship.

Position Title: Media analyst

Location: Remote role, West coast preferred

Experience Required: 2+ years

Anticipated Start Date:Immediate hiring

Rate range: Based on Experience

Expected Duration: 12+ months

Job Type: Full Time (>=40 HRS WEEKLY)

Job Description:

• We are looking for a media analyst to join our Communications Measurement team to analyze the impact of our comms work across traditional press as well as social media and our owned channels.
• The analyst should have solid numeric and quantitative analysis skills.
• Fluent knowledge of both English & Spanish is required.

Responsibilities:

• Read, analyze, and summarize media coverage of important Meta issues Inform the wider team on news cycles and policy issues domestically and internationally, and put them into their local context.
• Create reports with media insights (including visualization) to assess the impact of different news cycles and inform future strategy.
• 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.

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
• Knowledge of Spanish is required.
• Experience owning multiple deliverables and working in a deadline driven environment.
• Experience in handling data sets and visualizing data a plus: Brandwatch, Cision are a plus.
• Experience drafting messaging materials; writing news summaries is a plus.
• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Broadcast, Political Science, Marketing, Economics, Statistics or related field.
• Strong written and verbal communication