Responsibilities

• Digital strategy and content leadership
• Coordinate and maintain the city’s digital content to ensure it is accurate, accessible, timely, user-friendly, and aligned with city communication priorities.
• Develop high-quality digital materials, including stories, graphics, videos, and interactive features, that increase public awareness of city programs and services.
• Manage content standards and style guidelines, and establish best practices for user experience, accessibility, and plain-language communication.
• Maintain a citywide digital editorial calendar and coordinate content planning with city departments.
• Public-facing digital communications
• Translate complex policies, projects, and program information into clear, engaging content for web, social, and other public-facing platforms.
• Support major initiatives, outreach campaigns, public engagement activities, and emergency communications through effective digital storytelling.
• Partner with departments to develop and maintain audience-focused project pages and communication materials.
• Website and content governance

Requirements

• Associate’s degree in communications, digital media, public relations, graphic design, information technology, or a related field; and
• Four years of experience creating, managing, or coordinating digital content, websites, or multimedia;
• Or an equivalent combination of education and experience enabling the incumbent to perform the essential functions of the position.
• Ability to pass reference checks and education verification, and satisfy the requirements of a background check.

Benefits

• In addition to competitive pay, the city offers a wide variety of benefits to regular employees which make up an exceptional total compensation package.
• The city pays the full retirement contribution to the Oregon Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) including the employee portion; provides employees with an opportunity to participate in a deferred compensation retirement plan; makes available a public service loan forgiveness program and tuition reimbursement program; and offers excellent health, dental, vision and life insurance coverage.
• Additional benefits include excellent paid time off (PTO) accrual, PTO cash out options, wellness programs and incentives, an employer-funded Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) VEBA, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and bilingual pay premiums.