Senior Media Communications Advisor - Hybrid Strategy

Southern California Edison; Palm Springs (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern California Edison (SCE) is seeking a Media Communications Senior Advisor to lead communications strategy, serve as a spokesperson, and act as PIO during Incident Management activations. The role supports Edison International and SCE with crisis communications, media outreach, and executive messaging.

The hybrid position requires California residency with travel up to 20% and on-call duties after hours.

Qualifications

• Ten or more years of experience in corporate communications within a corporate and/or agency environment.
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Public Relations, Journalism, Communications, or a related field.
• Experience with communication related to corporate finance and utilities, with a strong knowledge of media landscape and proficiency with all social media platforms.
• Media relations and social media experience — either as a reporter in a newsroom or with an agency or in a corporate environment.
• Excellent writing skills/abilities for media and social media platforms.
• Experience with Cision and BusinessWire or similar platforms.
• Experience with project management or media campaign managment.

Responsibilities

• Leads strategic execution of communications strategy and measures the effectiveness for the relevant team’s focus area.
• Drives communications that inform and educate, and when needed, manage risk and mitigate crises.
• Leads editorial development to establish a continuous and optimized presence across platforms (brainstorming, planning sessions, content pipeline, etc.).
• Translates business goals into communications strategies, tactics and messaging.
• Identifies opportunities to share success stories about big initiatives and company/departmental/team priorities.
• Provides strategic advice and counsel and develops standard work processes.
• Recommends and creates specific communications materials such as blogs, op-eds, fact sheets, site copy and key messages/talking points.
• Serves as a Public Information Officer (PIO) during Incident Management Team activations, playing a vital role in supporting our customers and communities during emergencies.
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Skills

Media relations

Social media

Writing skills

Cision/BusinessWire

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Tools

Cision

BusinessWire

Job description

Southern California Edison (SCE) is seeking a Media Communications Senior Advisor to lead communications strategy, serve as a spokesperson, and act as PIO during Incident Management activations. The role supports Edison International and SCE with crisis communications, media outreach, and executive messaging.

The hybrid position requires California residency with travel up to 20% and on-call duties after hours.