Communications Specialist

Jobtailor; Illinois; On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Illinois seeks an Internal Communications Specialist to connect division priorities with employees’ day-to-day work. You will craft content for newsletters, presentations, recognition stories, and project updates, translating complex technical info into engaging messages for all levels.

You will support leadership talking points and meeting materials, ensuring consistent messaging, and you will act with urgency to meet deadlines, using metrics to improve engagement across channels.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly across audiences, influence alignment and tailor messages for leaders, employees and cross-functional partners.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships, collaborate with leaders and teams and provide thoughtful guidance on messaging approach, tone and delivery.
• Ability to turn complex engineering, technical and operational content into clear, engaging stories that connect work to strategy, customer impact and business outcomes.
• Working knowledge of internal communications strategies, channels and best practices, including employee content, campaigns, recognition and engagement communications.
• Strong planning and organizing skills with the ability to juggle several projects, manage deadlines and structure work effectively.
• Strong tactical execution with a self-starter mindset, agility to move quickly and ability to highlight early wins while progressing work toward high-quality outcomes.
• Ability to interpret communication metrics and feedback, assess effectiveness and apply insights to improve messaging, engagement and outcomes

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders and internal stakeholders to develop communications that connect division priorities, projects and business goals to employees’ day-to-day work.
• Create clear, compelling content for employee communication channels, including written communications, presentations, recognition stories, project updates, and early-win moments.
• Translate technical, engineering and operational information into concise, digestible messaging for audiences of all levels.
• Support leader communications, talking points and meeting materials that improve alignment, visibility and message consistency.
• Act with urgency to manage deadlines, elevate progress and use metrics and feedback to improve engagement and outcomes across channels.

Skills

Content Development

Technical Writing

Presentation Skills

Messaging Strategy

Campaign Management

Collaboration

Influencing

Relationship Building

Organizational Skills

Tactical Execution

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders and internal stakeholders to develop communications that connect division priorities, projects and business goals to employees’ day-to-day work.
• Create clear, compelling content for employee communication channels, including written communications, presentations, recognition stories, project updates, and early-win moments.
• Translate technical, engineering and operational information into concise, digestible messaging for audiences of all levels.
• Support leader communications, talking points and meeting materials that improve alignment, visibility and message consistency.
• Act with urgency to manage deadlines, elevate progress and use metrics and feedback to improve engagement and outcomes across channels.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly across audiences, influence alignment and tailor messages for leaders, employees and cross-functional partners
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships, collaborate with leaders and teams and provide thoughtful guidance on messaging approach, tone and delivery
• Ability to turn complex engineering, technical and operational content into clear, engaging stories that connect work to strategy, customer impact and business outcomes
• Working knowledge of internal communications strategies, channels and best practices, including employee content, campaigns, recognition and engagement communications
• Strong planning and organizing skills with the ability to juggle several projects, manage deadlines and structure work effectively
• Strong tactical execution with a self-starter mindset, agility to move quickly and ability to highlight early wins while progressing work toward high-quality outcomes
• Ability to interpret communication metrics and feedback, assess effectiveness and apply insights to improve messaging, engagement and outcomes

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in crafting clear and engaging communications that translate complex technical information into relatable content for diverse audiences. Proven ability to collaborate with leaders and teams to enhance messaging strategies and improve employee engagement through effective communication channels.

Hard Skills

• Content Development
• Technical Writing
• Presentation Skills
• Messaging Strategy
• Campaign Management

Soft Skills

• Collaboration
• Influencing
• Relationship Building
• Organizational Skills
• Tactical Execution