H/Advisors Cicero offer internships and placements throughout the year to support and promote our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion aims and provide opportunities to people from underrepresented groups.

Specifically, we work with Taylor Bennett Foundation on their Summer Stars programme, The Talent Tap on their Summer Internship programme and host interns through HKX Platform.

From time to time, we may offer other internship opportunities which will be posted on this careers page.

All internships at H/Advisors Cicero are paid at London Living Wage. As part of our ongoing commitment to increasing the diversity of our team and access to opportunities, we do not offer unpaid internships, placements, or work experience.

H/Advisors Cicero, part of Havas Village Dublin, designs and implements national, regional, and global public affairs and communications campaigns for some of the world’s largest listed businesses, new entrant challengers and technology disruptors.

H/Advisors Cicero works across multiple markets which means our staff gain invaluable experience in international communications from a PR and policy perspective.

As a rapidly expanding PR and public affairs consultancy, we are now looking to hire an ambitious Public Affairs Account Director to oversee multiple client accounts and manage account handling teams in Ireland. This person will oversee domestic public affairs accounts and international accounts. Previous international public affairs experienced not required to apply for this role.

This job is for an ambitious public affairs account manager ready to move up a step or for an existing account director that wants to move over to a rapidly growing team, gain international policy and communications experience and be part of one of the largest communications companies in the world – Havas. See below for more information on Havas Village.

The role:

• Playing a senior role in the public affairs and corporate communications arm of H/Advisors Cicero team within Havas Village Dublin
• Taking an active role in developing and winning domestic and global new business. Playing a key role in pitches, identifying, and converting perspective new business targets.
• Leading accounts and managing your account handling teams and account delivery.
• Developing and managing strategic and creative public affairs campaigns (legislative and non-legislative)
• Helping to grow the team and supporting junior member’s progress
• Key support for the Ireland Director.
• Helping to grow H/Advisors Cicero and Havas Village Dublin in Ireland

The ideal candidate will have:

• 4-6 years’ experience in public affairs, preferably in agency but in-house also accepted.
• A working knowledge of Irish political and regulatory system.
• Experience in new business and actively winning and growing new accounts
• Experience in healthcare public affairs a bonus and should be highlighted on application
• Experience in corporate communications in Ireland and/or other markets
• Good knowledge of EU public affairs a bonus

Key Competencies:

• An ambitious person who has the drive to drive a high growth potential part of the business
• A “get up and go” attitude.
• Excellent written and communication skills.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Proven management and leadership skills with the desire to manage a team.
• Excellent relationship building skills.
• A strategic and entrepreneurial mind-set.

Salary

Competitive and dependent on experience.

Travel

Depending on where you are based, you will be required to travel to Brussels, Dublin, and London on an ad hoc basis.

Remote Working

You would begin your career with H/Advisors Cicero working remotely part-time and in the office two days a week. This is negotiable depending on the right candidates’ circumstances.

Equal opportunities

At H/Advisors Cicero, we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability, and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.

Due to high volume of applications, only eligible or matching candidates will be contacted by us.

About Havas Village Dublin

Havas Village Dublin offers a unique proposition in the Irish market as it provides marketing, consulting, and communications services under one roof with the ability to bolt on international capabilities through an extensive global network under one PLN.

In Ireland, we offer a range of services within Havas Village delivered by our network of dedicated teams.

• Public affairs and corporate Communications delivered by H/Advisors Cicero
• Business Transformation consulting delivered by Gate One
• Media buying and advertising delivered by Havas Media
• Creative and digital delivered by Havas Creative

The Village model gives us the distinct advantage to both create and capture value for clients across the total marketing, consulting, and communications ecosystem.

About Havas Group – the Global Network

Havas Dublin is linked to 75 other Havas Villages across the world which gives us access to global talent, skills, and knowledge. We are owned by the French entertainment giant Vivendi which also allows us to draw on the groups’ media and creative content insights from the music, gaming, and film industries.

H/Advisors Cicero’s EU Public Affairs team is looking for an Associate Director/Director to work as a leading member of our EU Public Affairs client account teams, mainly focusing on digital policy issues.

The person will be responsible for multiple client accounts and managing account handling teams.

Key responsibilities:

• Key support to Managing Director of the EU Public Affairs team.
• Taking an active role in developing and winning new business; playing a key role in pitches; identifying and converting prospective new business targets and marketing activity.
• Providing senior strategic counsel to clients, taking full responsibility for managing your account handling teams and account delivery.
• Developing and managing strategic and creative public affairs campaigns.
• Developing junior members of staff (team of 7).
• Helping to develop H/Advisors Cicero’s external presence and marketing.

The ideal candidate will have:

• 6 years experience in a consultancy role, European institution, trade association or equivalent organisation.
• Knowledge and experience of the EU digital policy landscape is essential, and fully competent to consult on related issues with clients and/or prospects.
• Commercially knowledgeable with proven new business skills.
• Experience of developing and executing complex strategic EU public affairs campaigns.

Key Competencies:

• A “get up and go” and proactive attitude.
• Proven management and leadership skills with the desire to manage a team.
• Excellent relationship building skills.
• A strategic and entrepreneurial mind-set.
• Excellent written and communication skills as well as accuracy and attention to detail.
• The working language of the office is English, an additional language would be an asset but not essential.
• Cultural values: courage, innovation, collaboration, expertise and openness

Equal opportunities:

At H/Advisors Cicero, we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability, and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.

We are open to discussing flexible working opportunities.

Due to high volume of applications, only eligible or matching candidates will be contacted by us.

H/Advisors Cicero is looking for a dynamic Senior Account Executive to join its fast-growing EU Public Affairs team.

In this role, the successful candidate will work as a key member of our client account team, assisting with client management, account deliverables such as stakeholder mapping, drafting client briefing materials and organising meetings and events, policy research, and monitoring the busy EU Public Affairs landscape.

The successful candidate will deliver excellent insight and assist in providing strategic direction to our clients in a variety of sectors, including Fintech/Digital finance.

The team location and client delivery are in Brussels; however we would consider candidates based in London.

H/Advisors Cicero is an integrated communications agency based in London, Brussels and Dublin and is part of one of the world’s largest communications groups, Havas.

Key responsibilities:

• Coordinating and managing daily client deliverables.
• Organising meetings and client calls; writing and circulating meeting agendas and taking notes and action points in client calls and meetings.
• Being an active client facing team member on public affairs campaigns.
• Developing detailed knowledge of a number of policy and legislative issues around policy areas such as financial services, the digital economy and finance.
• Helping the team to develop Cicero/AMO’s external presence including drafting briefings for public distribution, generating marketing content, and supporting the development of our social media profile.
• Keeping up to date with political and current affairs and flagging important developments to the team and clients.
• Supporting the team in new business activity.

The ideal candidate will have:

• A strong interest in EU public affairs, fintech/digital finance current affairs.
• 2-3 years’ experience in a consultancy, European institution, trade association or equivalent organisation as an Account Executive/ Consultant or equivalent.
• Knowledge and experience of the EU legislative landscape and policy, financial services and/or digital single market related issues is essential.
• Experience in Brussels context.
• A “get up and go” attitude, ready to assist in a wide range of tasks, build networks and lead on specific projects, tasks, or policy areas.
• Ability and desire to continuously learn new areas of policy.
• Excellent written and communication skills.
• Excellent research skills.
• Planning and organisation skills.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• The working language of the office is English, and an additional language would be an asset.
• Cultural values; courage, innovation, collaboration, expertise, respect, and openness.

Equal opportunities

At H/Advisors Cicero we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability, and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.

Due to high volume of applications, only eligible or matching candidates will be contacted by us.