Senior Media Monitoring & Analytics Specialist - 21527

• Monitor daily media coverage across traditional print/broadcast, digital news and social channels.
• Gather, organize and categorize media clips and mentions across multiple corporate, public sector and non-profit client accounts.
• Execute rapid real-time monitoring during breaking news or media spikes — delivering immediate notifications, flash alerts and incident summaries to account teams.

• Build, maintain and update client analytics dashboards using Looker Studio, Excel and custom tracking tools.
• Aggregate, structure and clean quantitative metrics and qualitative sentiment data from enterprise platforms including Meltwater, Muck Rack, Brand24 and Google Analytics 4.
• Maintain highly organized master datasets, media archives and historical benchmarking logs.

• Compile, format and write polished, accurate weekly, monthly and quarterly performance reports.
• Surface and flag key trends, sentiment shifts, share-of-voice changes and emerging risks for the senior team's analysis.
• Support ad hoc research, competitive benchmarking, media lists and measurement projects as client needs emerge.

• 3–5 years of hands-on experience in PR measurement, media monitoring, digital marketing analytics or corporate communications reporting. Agency or multi-client experience is highly valued.
• Advanced mastery of Boolean search logic to build, refine and troubleshoot complex queries across enterprise monitoring platforms.
• Demonstrated experience with media intelligence software, including Meltwater, Muck Rack, Brand24, Google Analytics 4 and social listening tools.
• Strong data visualization and spreadsheet skills — Looker Studio, Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel (vlookups, pivot tables, data structuring).
• Analytical clarity: the ability to distinguish high-volume chatter (quantitative spikes) from true brand reputation risk (qualitative sentiment change).
• Excellent written and spoken English, with the ability to summarize media activity into clear, accurate, client-ready reporting.
• A dependable remote work practice with at least four hours overlapping U.S. Central Time on working days.
• Composure and responsiveness during real-time media spikes, crisis response windows and time-sensitive deadlines.

• Experience with crisis communication monitoring or public affairs campaigns.
• Media list building.
• SEO/GEO monitoring or Google Tag Manager.

You are:

• Analytically rigorous and technically precise, and you thrive in fast-paced environments where reputation and media dynamics move quickly.
• Energized by turning raw media clips into clean data visualization and by maintaining flawless, well-organized datasets.
• Calm and clear under pressure — you bring immediate composure when a crisis cycle erupts.
• A clear, accurate writer who turns monitoring into clean, reliable reporting the senior team and clients can trust.
• An owner of the mechanics: you keep the monitoring and reporting engine running flawlessly, with candor, precision and responsiveness.

Cultural curiosity is part of how we operate. We look beyond the obvious, ask better questions and build teams around the assignment. You will work directly with senior leads across public relations, crisis, account, creative and digital. We provide context and expect ownership, candor, precision, responsiveness and respect.

• Relationship: Ongoing independent contractor engagement
• Capacity: Full-time, approximately 40 hours/week
• Location: Remote, open to global talent
• Collaboration: At least four dependable hours overlapping U.S. Central Time on working days. Occasional real-time monitoring outside normal hours may be requested during active media situations, arranged in advance — this is not a routine evening or weekend on-call role.
• Tools: Enterprise licenses and tools are provided, including Meltwater, Muck Rack, Brand24, Google Analytics 4 and Looker Studio.
• Growth: Expanded responsibility may follow strong performance and account fit
• Compensation: Candidate-stated monthly rate in USD; final structure depends on experience

1. A current résumé or professional profile.
2. Two anonymized examples of media analysis, performance reports or executive briefs you have authored (showing how you organize quantitative and qualitative data).
3. One example of a Looker Studio dashboard or advanced report you have constructed.
4. Your location, time zone, Central Time working hours, weekly availability, earliest start date and requested rate.