Responsibilities

• - Creates, coordinates, and evaluates internal and external communications and marketing for print, online and video. - Assists with media outreach strategies, maintaining a current list of reporters and engaging in regular contact to pitch story ideas. - Develops and implements communications and marketing plans for a variety of City projects. - Assists with setting up quantitative and qualitative research tools (such as surveys, questionnaires, and website analytics) to gather data to inform communications strategies. Monitors and measures the results to demonstrate the reach of communications and adjust tactics as needed. - Assists the City’s emergency management team to provide communication to the public in crisis situations. - Writes, edits, and coordinates the City's monthly newsletter for residents and weekly internal newsletter for staff. - Coordinates social media content and produces copy for the City's social media sites. - Photographs and compiles digital images for publications, websites and social media and print materials. - Performs other duties as assigned by the Communications Manager.

Requirements

• - Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, English, marketing, public relations, or closely related field. - Three to five years of experience in communications-related field. - Demonstrated experience in public relations and media relations. - Demonstrated knowledge and proficiency with communications technologies, print materials, all social media platforms, and digital content. - Excellent written and oral communication skills. - Demonstrated production management skills and creativity.

Preferred

• - Master's degree in communications, journalism, marketing, public relations, English or closely related degree. - Professional certification in communications, journalism, marketing or public relations. - Experience in providing or managing communications for a municipality or other government sector organization.

Benefits

• Benefits for regular, full-time employees of the City of Bloomington (with the exception of 24 hour firefighters and 24 hour fire fighter/paramedics) include the following: - 10 days paid vacation per year - 13 days paid personal leave per year - 13 paid holidays per year - 12 weeks paid parental leave - Employee health and dental insurance - Paid employee life insurance - Paid employee disability insurance - Employer/employee paid pension - Deferred compensation - Tuition assistance program - Health club membership reimbursement - Flexible spending account - Employee Assistance Program - Other optional benefits - Great suburban location, on bus line - Free employee parking - (Union contracts may vary from the above list.)