Public Relations and Outreach Specialist

Orlando, FL (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive media and community outreach work as part of a public relations team, delivering multilingual content on tight deadlines.

  • Own multi-channel outreach content and event planning.
  • Must-have: Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years in PR/public information.
  • Standout: Orlando-based, award-winning firm with national scope.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as an active and participating member of our public relations and public involvement team.
  • Coordinate media and community outreach strategies and campaigns.
  • Under time-sensitive deadlines, prepare content for news releases, multimedia productions, social media, web-based productions and community outreach initiatives.
  • Under critical daily deadlines, prepare content for construction notices, newsletters, bulletins, letters, digital messages, trade magazines, radio and video scripts, talking points and other printed materials for public and media events.
  • Assist in editing the work of others to ensure all published work supports media and community outreach strategies and conforms to adopted style guides.
  • Participate in planning public and media events.
  • Maintain databases and generate regular reports.
  • Communicate multi-channel outreach with community members.
  • Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
  • Ability to work a staggered work schedule to accommodate some evening duties.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Public Administration or a closely related field and five years' public relations, public information, media and/or customer relations experience.
  • High degree of self-motivation and professional decorum.
  • Effective and grammatically proficient writing, editing, public speaking, networking and community involvement.

Preferred

  • Preference will be given to those who can creatively communicate technical issues for a general public audience.

Benefits

  • Global-5, Inc., is an Orlando based national award-winning public relations & public information, marketing & advertising, digital production, knowledge transfer & change management, technology development firm serving long-term transportation and transit clients.
  • EOE, offering a comprehensive health care and benefits package, including 401K profit sharing.
  • Salary is commensurate with experience.
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Global-5

Global-5 is a full-service public relations and marketing firm with more than 20 years of experience exceeding client expectations in transportation, construction, automotive, government and emerging technologies such as connected and autonomous vehicles.We build lasting relationships with our local, national and international clients by listening intently to understand their needs so that we can design, build, launch and maintain successful public relations and marketing programs that engage target audiences, solve business problems and achieve our clients’ goals and objectives.From our office in Central Florida, we provide public relations, marketing, creative, digital and research & strategic services all under one roof, which saves time and money for our clients.From our experience working with city, county, state, regional, federal and international transportation agencies, Global-5 is skilled at transferring organizational knowledge, processes and best practices from the top of the pyramid to the base, and then back up again.

Founded in 1996
Longwood, Florida, USA
37 employees (17 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
44
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.6%
Direct
41.7%
Referral
12.4%
Social
9.4%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~37

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
13 (35% of company)