Responsibilities

• Multimedia Communications - Create engaging multimedia content promoting City programs, services, initiatives, and community events. - Capture, edit, and produce professional-quality photography, video, and graphics for social media, the City website, newsletters, ECTV, and other communication platforms. - Write press releases, news stories, social media content, newsletters, and other public information materials. - Maintain and update website content to ensure information is accurate, timely, and accessible. - Assist in managing the City’s social media platforms by creating content, monitoring engagement, and responding to inquiries when appropriate. - Track digital engagement metrics and recommend improvements to communications strategies.
• Event Planning & Community Engagement - Plan, coordinate, and execute City-sponsored events, ceremonies, festivals, press conferences, and public outreach initiatives. - Coordinate event logistics, including timelines, vendors, equipment, signage, promotional materials, volunteers, and on-site operations. - Collaborate with City departments, public safety agencies, community organizations, and vendors to ensure successful events. - Attend City meetings, public hearings, and community events to provide communications support and capture multimedia content. - Assist with developing and monitoring event budgets, obtaining quotes, coordinating vendor contracts and invoices, and ensuring expenditures comply with City policies and procedures.
• Collaboration - Work closely with City departments to identify stories, promote programs, and ensure consistent messaging across communication platforms. - Support Everett Community Television (ECTV) programming and multimedia projects as needed. - Assist with media relations by coordinating interviews, press materials, and media requests. - Assist with emergency communications and other time-sensitive public information efforts. - Perform other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Marketing, Event Management, Graphic Design, Media Production, or a related field and at least three (3) years of experience in communications, public relations, marketing, event planning, multimedia production, or similar relevant work; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
• Municipal or government communications experience is preferred.

Preferred

• Bilingual or multilingual proficiency, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, or Haitian Creole, is preferred.
• Municipal or government communications experience is preferred.