Public Relations Specialist

Summary

Join a company that values innovation, employee-centric focus, and lifelong learning. We're seeking a Public Relations Specialist to manage communications team projects, develop documentation, create content, and coordinate graphic design needs.

Requirements

• US Citizenship is required
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field and 10+ years of experience
• Demonstrated experience in a senior communications role within a federal program
• Ability to manage projects and tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Experience developing documentation such as style guides, user guides, and workflow documentation
• Ability to work with technical teams to generate original content
• Ability to communicate technical information to business-oriented audiences, and vice versa
• Experience, including formalized training, in the use of InDesign and Adobe Pro to create graphics
• Basic administration experience with SharePoint
• Familiarity with Agile methodology and the Jira tool
• Expertise in plain language best practices
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• High attention to detail

Responsibilities

• Manage communications team projects and tasks
• Develop documentation to include processes, workflows, user guides, and style guides
• Create content for newsletters, reports, and presentations
• Coordinate graphic design needs
• Organize and prepare presentations for outreach efforts
• Edit presentation slides for plain language, grammar, and spelling
• Collect and finalize content for weekly reports
• Develop social media posts
• Collect and finalize content for newsletters and publish
• Collect and finalize content for annual report and publish
• Coordinate executive speaking engagements