Coordinator - Public Affairs

Who You'll Work With

You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.

In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference.

When you join us, you will have:

• Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
• A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
• Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• Exceptional benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.

Your Impact

You will help drive the execution, coordination, and operating discipline of McKinsey’s public affairs priorities globally, including initiatives connected to U.S. federal engagement, international stakeholder engagement, reputation building, and thought leadership.

You will play a central role in helping the team stay organized, responsive, and focused on priority outcomes by managing workplans, tracking follow-ups, coordinating stakeholders, and supporting high-quality execution across multiple workstreams.

You will support firm leaders and internal stakeholders by preparing briefings, talking points, memos, stakeholder profiles, meeting materials, and leadership updates. You will also monitor relevant policy, political, reputational, and stakeholder developments, and distill complex information into clear, structured, and actionable insights.

You will work directly with McKinsey’s central Public Affairs team to support implementation of the firm’s public affairs strategy and advance priority initiatives across markets and regions. You will coordinate meetings with policymakers, policy influencers, consultants, external advisors, business associations, think tanks, and other relevant institutions. This may include supporting scheduling and logistics for meetings and other stakeholder engagements, preparing materials, managing follow-ups, and ensuring leaders are equipped for effective external engagement.

You will join a group of public affairs professionals within the firm’s Reach and Engagement function and support the continued growth of McKinsey’s global Public Affairs function. You will be part of McKinsey’s central Public Affairs team, working cross-functionally with leaders across the firm as well as with key internal and external stakeholders. Public Affairs is a non-client serving, strategic function that works within the policymaker and stakeholder ecosystem to humanize and de-mystify McKinsey’s work, broadcast our firm’s knowledge, and advance the firm’s reputation for positive, enduring impact.

A core part of your role will be managing Public Affairs team operations and infrastructure. This may include managing the Public Affairs inbox, maintaining stakeholder trackers and contact databases, supporting KPI management, preparing team meeting materials, coordinating retrospectives, tracking decisions and next steps, and ensuring follow-ups are completed. You will help create systems that improve visibility, accountability, and execution across the Public Affairs portfolio.

You will also contribute to priority communications and stakeholder-facing products, including federal external newsletters, leadership updates, briefing materials, short-form content, event materials, and microsite development. You will support the planning and execution of special projects, external convenings, policy forums, international events, roundtables, webinars, galas, and other stakeholder moments. You may also provide support for PAC-related activities as needed and in accordance with applicable firm policies, legal requirements, and compliance guidance.

Throughout your work, you will collaborate regularly with colleagues in Communications, Legal, Risk, Ethics & Compliance, and other relevant functions. You will be expected to exercise sound judgment, discretion, and professionalism when supporting sensitive issues, senior leadership priorities, and external stakeholder engagement. In this capacity, you will proactively identify risks, dependencies, or sensitivities and raise them with practical recommendations.

Your Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education or work experience required
• 3+ years of experience in public affairs, corporate affairs, strategic communications, project management, operations, or a related field
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
• Able to create structure, operating discipline, and accountability across complex projects, stakeholder engagements, and team processes
• Experienced in coordinating meetings, preparing materials, managing logistics, tracking follow-ups, and maintaining stakeholder databases or trackers
• Able to distill complex ideas, policy developments, and reputational considerations into clear, compelling narratives
• Skilled in building trust-based relationships with senior leaders, cross-functional colleagues, consultants, and external stakeholders
• Sound judgment, discretion, and professionalism when working on sensitive issues and senior stakeholder priorities
• Proficiency and fluency in verbal and written English required
• Able to leverage firm-approved AI tools and other emerging technologies to create efficiencies across projects and workstreams
• Mastery of Microsoft Office, including Word, PowerPoint, and Teams, and relevant internal tools such as Box and Slack
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare briefings, talking points, leadership updates, newsletters, and other executive-ready materials