Strategic Communications Graduate Scheme London 2025

Are you passionate about solving problems and looking for a challenge in your career?

Do you have strong communication and writing skills that you wish to apply in a dynamic team environment?

Are you personable and want to form relationships that will last for a lifetime?

Who we are

At FTI Consulting, we’re looking for future experts with impact to join our ever-growing award-winning Strategic Communications business. We invest in our graduates’ career development from day one, providing top notch training and enabling access to a broad network of professionals to work with and learn from.

We are a meritocratic organisation. We prioritise diversity of thought and welcome unique viewpoints that challenge us to think differently, and creatively. Our professionals come from a variety of backgrounds, with diverse capabilities and experience, but they all share our values and commitment to great work, striving for excellence in everything they do.

We are passionate about recruiting, developing, and training the best candidates. Whatever your university or degree discipline, if you are a motivated individual with the skills and desire to pursue a career in strategic communications and public relations, we encourage you to apply!

What we do

The Strategic Communications segment within FTI Consulting designs, develops and executes communications strategies for clients managing financial, regulatory, and reputational challenges. For more than 35 years, we have served as trusted advisers to management teams and Boards of Directors seeking to seize opportunities, manage crises, navigate market disruptions, and preserve their right to operate. We help businesses articulate their brand and competitive position, and work with them to share their corporate messages most effectively with key stakeholders – whether these are investors, policy makers, employees or consumers, through both traditional and digital PR channels.

With over 300+ colleagues across the London office, we sit in specialist teams or in cross-sector practices.

Our sector teams

• Financial services
• Retail and consumer
• Natural resources and energy
• Real estate and property
• Industrials
• Technology media and telecoms
• Life sciences and healthcare

Our cross-sector practices include

• Public affairs
• People and transformation
• Crisis preparedness and management
• Special situations
• Digital and Insights
• Litigation
• International campaigns and issues management

Our clients range from start-ups to multinational companies; from household names to cutting edge businesses – and everything in between. As each sector team has an average of 20 colleagues, our employees enjoy the advantages of working at a global, multi-disciplinary firm, while benefitting from the tight-knit culture of specialised teams.

About the Graduate Scheme

Our London-based graduate programme will provide you with the opportunity to rotate through three of our Strategic Communications teams, spending three months in each. You will be immersed in a fast-paced learning environment, where your development will be supported as much by an extensive structured training programme as by “on-the-job” training from colleagues and senior members of your teams.

Through these rotations, you will have the chance to gain exposure to an incredibly diverse roster of clients, from fast-growing start-ups and scale-ups to FTSE 100 industry leaders and global corporations.

Whether it’s communicating clients’ financial results, developing and protecting a corporate reputation, implementing targeted stakeholder engagement programmes or designing bespoke digital strategies, you will have an opportunity to work with our experts across a variety of different sectors and client briefs.

The rotations also provide the opportunity to build relationships with colleagues of all levels around our business and offer a unique insight into the many possible career paths that exist within the Strategic Communications practice.

How you'll grow

An extensive formal training programme covers everything from press release writing to pitching a story to a journalist to interpreting a client’s balance sheet. Our unique structure will also provide you with constant exposure to senior colleagues and client representatives from day one.

Throughout the scheme, you will be supported by your performance coach, a buddy in each of your rotation teams and a mentor who can support and guide you through your career goals and development. As such, you will have a strong network around you dedicated to furthering your career development.

As you come towards the end of your third rotation placement your preferences regarding the team you would like to join in a permanent role will be considered by the senior management and our Human Resources team, and you will be assigned to a permanent role within one of our teams.

At FTI Consulting, we work hard to create an inclusive and high-performing culture in which our professionals can grow their careers and achieve their full potential, while also ensuring that we cultivate a fast-paced, supportive, and dynamic learning environment.

As such, there are regular personal development training sessions, networking events and other social activities to get involved in. There are also groups dedicated to embracing, cultivating, and maintaining the diverse and inclusive nature of our team, including our Race, Identity, Social Equity (RISE) network, women’s initiative (FTI WIN), our Pride network, neurodiversity network and Parents network.

What you'll do

Your typical day might include the following:

• Supporting and engaging with clients on a day-to-day basis
• Supporting colleagues on new business proposals
• Summary and analytical tasks, gauging audience and communications impact, for example compiling coverage reports or conducting media and digital landscape analysis
• Drafting press releases and other written communication documents
• Building relationships and engaging in frequent contact with journalists and sell-side analysts, to sell in press releases or seek feedback on a client strategy
• Preparing briefing notes for our clients
• Taking part in learning and development sessions with our experts
• Undertaking a variety of research tasks for existing clients
• Supporting clients at events

What you will need to succeed

• A desire to work in communications and PR
• A 2:1 degree (or equivalent) obtained/expected at any university or degree discipline
• A strong work ethic and ‘can do’ attitude
• Excellent writing, grammar and numeracy skills (these will be tested as part of the interview process)
• A proven interest in working in communications through relevant work experience, examples of which may include: running a university society, writing for a website or magazine, presenting a radio show or interning at a communications agency
• Outstanding communication skills – in person, in writing and on the phone
• Strong detail orientation, time management and self-organisation
• An ability to work individually and as part of a team
• Creative flair and the ability to think outside the box
• Proactivity, and confidence to volunteer for a task without being asked
• A flexible approach to work, particularly in pressurised situations, and being able to think on your feet
• An ability to grasp and succinctly summarise complex issues
• An ability to network and build contacts

Please note: this is NOT a management consulting, strategy consulting or marketing role.

How to apply

• Candidates are required to submit a current curriculum vitae (CV) or resume which clearly shows how you meet the required qualifications outlined above
• If your CV or resume meets our criteria, you will then be asked to make a video submission, answering a number of questions – you will have 48 hours to complete this task, once received

Key dates

• Applications open: 2 September 2024
• Closing date for applications:17 October 2024
• Successful candidates from the application and video questions will be asked to participate in  virtual interviews in Mid-November
• Assessment centres will be held in Early December 2024
• Successful candidates will be contacted following assessment centres for a September 2025 start date

Our benefits

Our goal is to support the well–being of you and your families—physically, emotionally, and financially. We offer market competitive benefits (including pension), supplemented by 15 flexible benefits, to meet your needs. These include health, lifestyle and family-friendly options. We also offer professional development programmes, wellness, recognition, community volunteering initiatives, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements.

About FTI Consulting

FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm dedicated to helping clients with their most significant opportunities and challenges. With more than 8,000 employees located in 33 countries and territories, our broad and diverse bench of award–winning experts advise their clients when they are facing their most significant opportunities and challenges. At FTI Consulting, we embrace, cultivate and maintain a culture of diversity, inclusion & belonging, which are fundamental components to our core values. FTI Consulting is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange and has been recognised as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms by Forbes. For more information, visit www.fticonsulting.com/ and connect with us on Instagram and LinkedIn.

FTI Consulting is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, protected veteran status, religion, physical or mental disability, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.