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2024 MMC Fellowship Program

The LAGRANT Foundation
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2024 Make Your Mark! Fellowship | Application Information  

Hello! We’re MMC — an integrated marketing and communications agency, composed of MMC and RXMOSAIC. But we are so much more than that.  

For 40 years, we’ve shattered sales records and glass ceilings; launched breakthroughs and broken barriers. We've fully taken flight since our launch as the first and only agency focused on marketing to women, and we continue rewriting the rules of communications for all audiences by being Artfully Disruptive. 

Our three practice areas — Consumer, Healthcare, & Corporate — are centered around a world-class creative offering that rivals the most celebrated of ad agencies. We wield our creativity with purpose: marrying it with unparalleled audience insights to ignite conversations for companies and brands. Digitally driven, we don’t just stay ahead of the next curve in communications. We define it.  

That’s why our client roster includes some of the world’s biggest names, plus a cornucopia of determined challengers ready to take on the world.  

To learn more, please visit: HelloMMC.com. MMC is a part of the Omnicom Public Relations Group. 

 

What’s the program all about?  

The MMC Fellowship Program is a 6-month intensive, paid Fellowship program for those seeking to jumpstart their Public Relations and Integrated Communications careers. 

 

The Work: Fellows will work with agency leaders, digital strategists, content creators, community managers, and PR specialists to build brand presence through current and emerging platforms. As a Fellow, you will be responsible for executing robust day-to-day agency transactions and dynamic program elements. You’ll have an opportunity to work on real challenges and projects for our clients. No two days are ever the same!   

 

Placement Opportunities: MMC Fellows will have opportunities to build skills in all areas of our agency across – Consumer, Corporate, Health & Well-Being, Earned Media, and Content Creation.   

 

Business Challenge: We are excited to bring the talent of our selected Fellows to work on articulated projects to support our work with client.

  

Through collaboration with MMC teams and mentorship from senior leadership, MMC Fellows will be challenged across three connected areas. The Program’s foundation is Learning & Development that is administered through a rigorous and rewarding training program designed to cultivate the necessary business and public relations skills that make Client Delivery & Excellence possible. Throughout the Program, we’re inviting you to fuse these experiences and learnings together to bolster Agency Transformation, reimagining the ways and processes that foster the strongest agency harmony. As a MMC Fellow, we empower you to build, create, strategize, learn, and grow with us.  

 

Training and Development: Core to the Fellowship program is the Agency’s commitment to encourage and support professional growth, networking, and relationship building. MMC’s L&D function provides a rigorous learning experience, demonstrably improves individual and team performance, and equips Fellows with the skills and knowledge they need to thrive. The L&D program provides full scale training across all agency verticals, capabilities, and operations that collectively. 

 

As a Fellow, you will:  

  • Work across a portfolio of brands, bringing unique insights, ideas and audience understanding to each  
  • Understand client business and the role of influencers, talent and partnerships, digital, creative and earned communications within the marketing mix  
  • Evolve your knowledge across Consumer, Healthcare, & Corporate brands including key competitors, media landscape, trends in consumer behavior (i.e., Gen Z) and emerging digital platforms  
  • Analyze industry and marketplace trends and summarize for teams, support with social listening  
  • Assist in the development of written materials, including press kits, pitch letters, coverage recaps, and general client correspondence    
  • Media monitoring for relevant trends, brand and competitor coverage 
  • Partner with team to help vet mediability of celebrities and influencers we work with on behalf of our brands. 
  • Create deck presentations with concept work for client meetings and new opportunities 
  • Translate ideas into effective design across all workstreams 
  • Understand how the agency is positioning itself and executives with key external and internal stakeholders to define and drive its reputation.

 

Requirements:  

  • A recent college graduate (or obtaining your degree by June 2024) with a related major, degree or internship experience, or professionals looking to pivot into a career in PR   
  • Must be available full-time Monday – Friday, 9:00am – 6:00pm EST for the duration of the program (Monday, June 17th, 2024, through Friday, December 20th, 2024)  
  • This is a New York based Fellowship. We are only hiring in the NYC Tri-state area   
  • Our agency’s policy requires Fellows to be on-site at our NYC office 3 days a week  
  • The Fellowship pays $22 per hour and $33 per hour for approved time over 40 hours per week  
  • Application Deadline: Friday, March 29th, 2024  

 

What you offer:  

  • Superior written and verbal communication skills  
  • Creativity, intellectual curiosity, and a passion for what we do   
  • Social media savvy, digital capability, and an online presence  
  • Excellent organizational skills with a desire to learn project management, planning skills, and develop strong research skills   
  • Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and work well under the pressure of deadlines  

 

What you need to do:   

  • Upload an up-to-date copy of your resume (PDF Only Please, saved as your first and last name)  
  • Creative Bio (in lieu of a cover letter) Have fun and be innovative…it’s about content creation! Formats such as video, social media, PowerPoint etc. are highly encouraged. TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts are encouraged as well (Please include a link to the video)! Choose one of the following:  
  • I am most passionate about or inspired by… 
  • If I started my own YouTube channel, the first two influencers I would hire are...
  • Share a trend that went viral on TikTok and reverberated through traditional media... 
  • My favorite and least favorite trends of 2023 were…  
  • We have five agency values – Human First; Every Problem has a Creative Solution; Data Obsessed; Our Differences are Our Strength; We are Challengers by Choice. Please help us understand more about you by selecting one of the following values and share why it is meaningful to you.  

Application Deadline: Friday, March 29th, 2024