Junior Associate

Organization: KRG Advisors

Location: New York Preferred. Remote Considered for Excellent Candidates

Type: Full-Time

Candidate Profile: Recent Graduate or Early-Career Professional (0 to 2 Years of Experience)

Duration: Ongoing

Time commitment: Full Time (40 Hours/Week)

Start: November 2026

Benefits: Include health insurance

What is this Opportunity?

KRG Advisors is designing the agency of the future, and we want your help.

We're looking for a sharp, curious Junior Associate at the start of their career to join a small, senior-led team and help build the firm as much as work inside it.

About KRG Advisors

KRG Advisors is a boutique strategy and communications advisory firm founded and led by senior practitioners who counsel CEOs, boards, NGOs, and public leaders through complex transformation and reputation challenges. We help companies and non-profits thrive amidst geopolitical and societal volatility. We’re 15+ senior client counselors who have built tomorrow’s communications advisory, today, in a flat advisory model that lets us focus entirely on our clients. As part of building the agency of the future, we are combining AI into our overall workflows and into how we generate insights, which our client counselors then apply with their expertise. (www.KRGAdvisors.com)

The Opportunity

This is not a typical entry-level role, and we are not a typical agency. You will work on real client engagements from the start, supporting the counselors who advise CEOs, boards, and NGOs on corporate communications, public affairs, and crisis and issues management.

You will also help build the firm itself. As we shape the agency of the future, you will use AI tools like Claude in your daily work, help turn what works into repeatable tools and workflows, and contribute to how KRG wins new business and shows up in the market.

Get a feel for who we are: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7518682531915915265

Key Responsibilities

Client Support (75%)

• Support client teams with research, monitoring, and day-to-day engagement needs across corporate communications, public affairs, and issues management

• Draft and edit materials such as talking points, briefing materials, and situation summaries for team review

• Support media relations efforts, including building media lists, tracking coverage, and assisting with outreach

• Support media monitoring, including tracking news and online conversations relevant to clients

• Monitor geopolitical, regulatory, and media developments and flag items relevant to client accounts

• Help with project coordination, including tracking timelines and deliverables

Firm Development (25%)

• Support business development through research and pitch preparation

• Assist with KRG's thought leadership and external presence, including drafting content and social posts

• Help document and improve internal processes and workflows

• Provide ad hoc support across the team as needed

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree completed, ideally in communications, journalism, public relations, political science, or a related field

• Strong writing and editing skills, with comfort drafting on tight timelines

• Interest in and some exposure to both media relations and digital/social media, through coursework, internships, student media, or personal projects

• Basic proficiency with Claude tools, and comfort building basic skills and tasks in Claude for both client work and firm development

• Curiosity about the geopolitical, regulatory, and media dynamics that shape reputational risk for companies and institutions

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail

• Ability to take direction, ask good questions, and manage multiple tasks at once

• Prior communications, PR, or public affairs internship or work experience is a plus

What You’ll Gain

• Practical experience supporting real client engagements, with mentorship from senior team members

• Direct exposure to communications and strategy challenges facing companies, NGOs, and public figures

• Close collaboration with 15+ senior practitioners who bring decades of experience across corporate communications, public affairs, crisis management, government, journalism, and the C-suite

• Experience across both media relations and digital/social media

• A look at how a growing advisory firm is built and run