Job Description:
Looking for a candidate with excellent writing skills along with a variety of communication experiences. Solid experience in strategizing communication efforts and ability to tailor messages to many audiences. Experience with social media.
Job Duties:
- Participate in the client's digital communication team that seeks to sustain and build the department's social media capacity, using tools such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.
- Develop and use visual communications tools and techniques to increase the effectiveness of messages.
- Create graphics for social media and other uses.
- Shoot and edit short videos.
- Promote social media tools to the public.
- Create written content: Plan, write and edit for public-facing blog. Solicit and develop content from program staff; write original content; utilize images, photos and videos to engage audiences.
- Create materials, including news releases, fact sheets, educational materials, policy messaging, website content and other formats.
- Develop communication strategies for health communications to impact diverse populations' understanding and behaviors associated with the coronavirus pandemic in the region.
- Serve as public information officer.
- Develop media engagement strategies with regional community and ethnic media; write talking points, identify and train spokespeople; work with existing staff to gain earned media with ethnic media outlets.
- Write news releases and speaking points and coordinate online media events, field media inquiries and serve as a spokesperson.
- Develop strategic messaging and approaches to address emerging media questions and concerns.
- Act as a coordinator for the Communications group. Gather, synthesize, prepare and share information from a variety of subject matter experts from within and outside the department.
- Present updates and share information with agency staff through prepared reports and oral presentations.
- Track and capture progress and milestones of the communications group.
- Provide additional support for communications response activities during the novel coronavirus pandemic as assigned. Occasional evening/weekend work may be required.
EXPERIENCE, QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS:- Background in education, communications, English, journalism, marketing, or a related field or comparable experience.
- Skills in synthesizing and communicating health and science information in writing, orally and visually to a variety of audiences including policy makers, communities of color, and language communities.
- Skills in producing news releases, fact sheets, and/or educational materials utilizing Microsoft Office Suite products, WordPress, and/or other blogging platforms; experience in SharePoint and Teams.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and assess the communication needs of targeted audiences and determine the best communication methods and tools.
- Knowledge of communications principles, methods, and materials.
- Demonstrated ability to act in a tactful and diplomatic manner with diverse groups.
Desired:Bilingual in English and another language spoken by significant numbers of King County immigrant groups.
Can work remotely for most of the assignment.
Location: Seattle
Duration: 5 to 6 months
Pay: $36.87 per hour