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FTP is where serious advocacy professionals come to grow, collaborate, and make a difference. From day one, you’ll join a bipartisan team that values direct counsel, shared success, and showing up for one another when the stakes are highest.
A career defined by high stakes & big thinking to achieve results.
We are always looking for curious, driven talent to join our team.
Whether your background is in government, communications, digital advocacy, research, or something else entirely, you’ll find opportunities to grow, make an impact, and help clients navigate what’s next.
This isn’t a 9-to-5. It’s a career. FTP is where advocacy gets to work.
Our Values
- 01 We Take Smart Risks
- 02 We Compete to Win
- 03 We Are Relentless Learners
- 04 We Value Unique Strengths
- 05 We Succeed Together
Current Openings
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Position Description:
The Digital Media Buyer is a hands-on execution role on the Digital team, a department within the Public Affairs division at FTP. You will plan, build, traffic, and optimize paid media campaigns across programmatic, paid social, and paid search for the firm’s advocacy and public affairs clients. The work moves fast. Requests often land with same-day turnarounds, and you will own campaigns from setup through pacing, optimization, and reporting. You will operate across both managed-service and self-serve buying platforms, partner closely with Public Affairs account teams to turn client goals into media plans, and work alongside junior analysts on reporting and data pulls during active campaigns. This is a build moment for FTP. As the firm grows its digital practice, you will help shape how paid media is run, measured, and delivered, with real room to show what you can do.
Location: 777 6th Street, NW, 10th Floor, Washington, D.C.
Reports to: Executive Vice President, Head of Digital Intelligence & Strategy,
Status: Permanent Full-time, Exempt
Posted: August 28, 2026
Work Arrangement: Hybrid (three days in person, two days remote)
Salary Grade: P19As the Digital Media Buyer, you will:
- Plan, build, and traffic paid media campaigns across a wide variety of paid media platforms and services on time and on budget.
- Manage day-to-day campaign execution including pacing, bid and budget management, audience targeting, creative trafficking, and mid-flight optimization.
- Operate fluently across managed-service and self-serve buying platforms, and bring a point of view on which channels and tactics fit each client’s goals.
- Turn Public Affairs account team objectives into concrete media plans, flighting, and budget recommendations.
- Build and manage campaign reporting, turning performance data into clear PowerPoint deliverables that account teams and clients can act on.
- Hold fast turnaround times without sacrificing accuracy. Accelerated timelines, including same-day projects, are common in the public affairs and advocacy space.
- Partner with and help develop junior analysts on reporting, data pulls, and campaign support, so coverage never depends on a single person.
- Collaborate with Public Affairs account teams across sectors to align paid media with broader client strategy.
- Manage media and data vendor relationships, and flag where the current stack helps or limits what FTP can deliver.
- Track platform changes, ad policy shifts, and emerging formats including creator and influencer, connected TV, and retail media, and bring recommendations back to the team.
- Help define how FTP runs paid media as the practice grows, including process, documentation, and operating standards.
- Perform other duties as necessary to achieve departmental goals.
To be successful, you will need:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or equivalent experience
- 3-5 years of hands-on paid media buying experience, ideally including advocacy, public affairs, political, or issue campaigns
- Hands-on experience with programmatic DSPs, paid social ad managers (Meta, LinkedIn, X, TikTok), and paid search platforms
- Strong command of audience targeting, pixel and conversion tracking, UTM discipline, and campaign measurement
- Comfort building campaign reports and translating performance data into clear PowerPoint deliverables
- Fluency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel for budget pacing and reconciliation
- Demonstrated ability to effectively and independently manage multiple projects
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Genuine interest in how paid media drives public policy and advocacy outcomes, not just clicks and impressions
- Independent, strategic thinking, and creative problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated capacity for teamwork, including the ability to effectively engage supervisors and subordinates under quick, tight deadlines within and across teams
- Proven ability to operate with integrity and ethics, and maintain the highest standards of confidentiality
- High level of detail and demonstrated work output with few/no errors
- Sense of urgency; willingness and ability to meet and exceed established deadlines
- Organizational agility
We prefer that you have:
Experience working with managed-service media partners alongside self-serve programmatic platforms
Experience with connected TV, online video, or creator and influencer campaignsHow To Apply
Interested parties should send their resume and cover letter to careers@forbes-tate.com with the subject line of “Digital Media Buyer, Digital Advocacy.” Please save each attachment with your full name (first and last name) and document title. For example: John Smith Resume and John Smith Cover Letter.
No calls, emails, or faxes please. Qualified candidates will be contacted for an interview.
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Position Overview
The Analyst plays a key role in FTP’s Government Relations team through completing research projects, distilling complex information for weekly newsletters, and supervising the work of interns. The GR team advocates on behalf of our industry-leading clients through critical political intelligence gathering, developing and implementing messaging, helping shape government policy. FTP’s Research and Policy Analysis (RPA) team is part of the firm’s Government Relations Department, providing timely research and analysis to help colleagues and clients navigate Washington’s evolving policy landscape. The department translates complex legislative, regulatory, and political developments into concise briefings, tailored research, and actionable insights for clients across industries. The ideal candidate will have an advanced understanding of the intersection between policy, politics, and communications, as well as the inner workings of Congress, the Administration, and federal agencies. Additionally, will have demonstrated the ability to work in an ideologically diverse, bipartisan environment, and be prepared to immerse themselves in new policy issues that arise.
Location: 777 6th Street, NW, 10th Floor, Washington, D.C.
Reports to: Partner, Government Relations
Status: Permanent Full-time, Exempt
Posted: October 16, 2026
Work Arrangement: Hybrid (three days in person, two days remote)
Salary Grade/ Range: P15As an Analyst, you will:
- Compile legislative and regulatory research, including content for regular update bulletins.
- Summarize complex legislative and regulatory information into concise policy memos for internal updates and client updates.
- Draft client-facing research documents, such as policy memos, to support ongoing issue advocacy campaigns.
- Assist team in summarizing events that have occurred in Congress and the Administration each week for the policy update newsletter to all clients and staff.
- Guide RPA interns in completing their general research and project assignments.
- Perform other duties as necessary to achieve departmental goals.
To be successful, you will need:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in a social science field of study or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 3-months relevant legislative or policy experience consisting of complete end-to-end research, memo and proposal writing, and document production/distribution/publication
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite, including the use of forms, functions, and data visualization tools in Excel
- Familiarity with policy research tools such as Quorum, PoliticoPro, CQ, LexisNexis, etc.
- Leadership skills transferrable to directing the work of interns
- Demonstrated ability to write clearly and concisely while providing a thorough overview of the issues
- Ability to identify trends and emerging political and policy issues at the state and federal levels
- Proven ability to operate with integrity and ethics, and maintain the highest standards of confidentiality
- High level of detail and demonstrated work output with little/no errors
- Sense of urgency; willingness and ability to meet and exceed established deadlines
- Organizational agility
We prefer that you have:
- Degree concentration in political science, public policy, government, or related.
- Familiarity with AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot, Perplexity) for research, drafting, and summarizing legislative and policy material.
What We Offer:
- Generous PTO policy of 4 weeks per year
- Competitive coverage for employees and families Medical/Dental/Vision insurance
- 3 months paid Maternity/Paternity
- 401K plan with traditional and Roth options
- $80 monthly phone stipend
- Opportunities to enroll in Flexible Spending accounts and Commuting accounts
- Company paid basic life insurance of $50,000, long-term disability, and short-term disability coverage
- Company paid access to a wide range of health and well-being resources and services including telephonic counseling, legal advice, and other services
How To Apply
Interested parties should send their resume, cover letter, and one writing sample (three pages or less) to careers@ftpadvocacy.commailto:careers@ftpadvocacy.com with the subject line of the position and departments (i.e. Analyst, Public Affairs). Please save each attachment with your full name (first and last name) and document title. For example: Jane Smith Resume, Jane Smith Cover Letter, Jane Smith Writing Sample.
No calls, emails, or faxes please. Qualified candidates will be contacted for an interview.
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The FTP Internship Program offers students and recent graduates substantive, practical, and hands-on experience working at the nexus between the public and private sectors. Our program exposes interns to the daily workings of a highly reputable government relations and public affairs firm and affords them the opportunity to work specifically with our Insights, Public Affairs, Research and Policy Analysis, or State Government Relations Teams.
Insights
Interns contribute to the development of media analysis, survey design, and focus groups. Interns should be excited about digging deeper into the nuts and bolts of data generation and analysis. Please click here for the Insights Intern application.Public Affairs (PA)
Interns conduct research, write analyses, draft media content (including social media posts), prepare memos for meetings, and assist principals with client-facing projects. Please click here for the PA Intern application.Research and Policy Analysis (RPA)
Interns conduct legislative and policy analyses, attend and report on congressional hearings and briefings, and draft a broad array of research memoranda on issues including health care, tax, energy, natural resources, financial services, and more. Please click here for the RPA Intern application.State Government Relations
Interns conduct policy research, track client deliverables, analyze state legislation and regulations, track state political and issue dynamics, write analyses, and assist principals with client-facing projects. Interns should have an interest in state government policy and politics across all 50 states. Please click here for the State Intern application.FTP hires paid interns each spring, summer, and fall semesters. Interns are paid $18.40/hour. Interested applicants can send a resume, cover letter, and two professional writing samples to internprogram@forbes-tate.com. Writing samples should be no more than 3 pages in length. Items should be sent as an attachment labeled with your name (ex. John Smith Resume) with the subject line Internship Program – Fall 2026.
Please note that applications are only accepted during the dates listed. Session dates, application availability and deadlines are below:
2027 Internship Sessions
Spring Semester
January 4 – May 21
Applications Accepted:
October 5 – November 13, 2026Summer Semester
May 24 – August 6
Applications Accepted:
March 8 – April 9, 2027Fall Semester
September 7 – December 17
Applications Accepted:
June 21 – July 16, 2027