Responsibilities

• Creates and/or collaborates with Public Lands staff to provide high-quality communications content to increase outreach and engagement efforts.
• Manages social media platforms
• Updates and manages website
• Develops comprehensive strategies and timelines for projects and events.
• Participates in planning, developing, and implementing marketing and communication strategies.
• Collaborates with assigned department, other City departments, and other team representatives to develop, create, and distribute key messages for citywide projects and news.
• Builds, coordinates, and/or maintains online content including websites, blog, and social media profiles.
• Synthesizes complicated matters and data into understandable context and follows through on inquiries, research requests, and drafting messages for approval.
• Conducts regular research of relevant blogs, micro blogs, list serves, events and RSS feeds, and collaborate with IMS Department to provide reporting onsite metrics and usability components of City websites.
• Researches relevant blogs, micro blogs, list serves, events and RSS feeds. Reports onsite metrics and usability components of applicable department or city websites.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor’s degree in English, Marketing, Communications, or a closely related field plus two to four years of professional-level experience performing communications, marketing, and/or public relations.
• Education and experience may be substituted one for the other on a year-for-year basis.
• Creative ability to devise effective communication strategies.
• Knowledge and familiarity with information technology, basic design, and digital editing is essential.
• Excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills.
• Effective oral and written communication skills; excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to resolve highly complex issues; develop and communicate new policies and procedures.
• Ability to work effectively with individuals from diverse backgrounds and at various levels of the organization.

Preferred

• Background knowledge of HTML web-based languages.
• Knowledge of web analytic tools, web technologies.
• Fluent in oral and written Spanish and English communication.