Responsibilities

• Be client facing, manage and anticipate client needs, and expand business opportunities.
• Project management - ensuring deliverables meet/exceed client expectations and are completed on or ahead of schedule.
• Manage, as an active and participating member, 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.
• Communicate multi-channel outreach with community members.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.

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.
• Prior project management experience in the transportation communications/outreach industry.
• High degree of self-motivation and professional decorum.
• Effective and grammatically proficient writing, editing, public speaking, networking and community involvement. Preference will be given to those who can creatively communicate technical issues for a general public audience.
• Strong computer skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Detail focused with the ability to obtain additional necessary information from clients, stakeholders and constituents.
• Ability to balance work on several projects at a time.

Preferred

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

Benefits

• Global-5 is an EOE, offering a comprehensive health care and benefits package, including 401K profit sharing.