Responsibilities

• Demonstrates experience in writing, editing, and distributing professional communications to internal and external audiences to ensure all Hamilton County Juvenile Court (HJCJ) employees have access to accurate and consistent information.
• Establish and manage an internal communication newsletter for all HCJC employees that will be shared regularly and include pertinent, timely, useful, and interesting information; Identify messaging that informs, educates, and demonstrates how the HCJC serves, uplifts, and improves the lives of court-involved youth and families.
• Review and evaluate current communication strategies and infrastructure to determine effectiveness and make updates, changes as appropriate.
• Identify grant funding opportunities for HCJC in collaboration with the Presiding Judge and oversee the grant application process.
• Demonstrates experience communicating with community partners, stakeholders, agencies, organizations, and members of the public.
• Serves as the contact for all media inquiries and acts as spokesperson for the HCJC at the discretion of the Presiding Judge and Court Administrator; support HCJC Judges and Administrators with internal messaging and external communication opportunities including internal memos, letters, speaking engagements, media interviews, etc.
• Create opportunities to proactively share messaging that supports the mission, goals, and objectives of HCJC, with a variety of audiences including community leaders and news media.
• Maintain website reviews and implement updates to ensure that the HCJC site is easy to navigate, contains consistent and accurate information adheres to Hamilton County brand standards, and reflects the mission, vision and values of the HCJC.
• Provide crisis communication direction and messaging in collaboration with HCJC judges and administration.
• Monitor national news for trending topics around juvenile justice topics that may impact or advance the work of HCJC.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations, journalism, marketing, public administration, English, or a related field with 3 years of comparable experience.
• Working knowledge of public records laws and processes.
• Experience managing or maintaining internal and external websites/web pages.

Preferred

• 5 years of experience in the communications or marketing field.