Responsibilities

• Leadership Engagement and Communications Guidance
• - Establish and maintain trusted relationships with sector leaders, researchers, communicators, and key stakeholders.
• - Serve as the aligned communicator for the Electricity Infrastructure Sector, translating sector priorities and business goals into communications strategies, plans, and deliverables that align with directorate, sponsor, and enterprise objectives.
• - Provide communications counsel to senior leaders and develop high-visibility content, including presentations, talking points, reports, leadership correspondence, and other communications.
• - Proactively identify communications opportunities, risks, emerging issues, and barriers to success; recommend and implement appropriate communications approaches and solutions.
• Communications Planning, Content, and Execution
• - Develop and execute integrated communications strategies and plans, managing priorities, scope, resources, and budget to support organizational objectives.
• - Create compelling communications content for a range of audiences, channels, and purposes, translating complex scientific, technical, and organizational information into clear and effective narratives.
• - Collaborate with Communications colleagues to plan, develop, and deliver communications products, campaigns, events, stakeholder engagement efforts, and other initiatives, drawing on specialized expertise and established resources as appropriate.
• - Reinforce communications best practices, governance expectations, and PNNL style and branding standards across communications activities and deliverables.

Requirements

• BS/BA and 7+ years of relevant experience -OR-
• MS/MA and 5+ years of relevant experience

Preferred

• Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships, provide communications guidance, and influence senior leaders and other stakeholders without direct authority.
• Ability to translate organizational priorities, business goals, and complex subject matter into effective communications approaches and compelling content for diverse audiences.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, with demonstrated experience developing high-quality communications for executive, scientific, and technical audiences.
• Strong judgment, discretion, and decision-making skills, particularly when navigating sensitive, high-visibility, or high-risk communications matters.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing demands, manage complex communications efforts, and focus resources on the highest-value opportunities in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience planning and executing complex communications initiatives, campaigns, or stakeholder engagement efforts in collaboration with others.
• Experience defining and using metrics or KPIs to evaluate communications effectiveness, inform decisions, and improve results.
• Experience supporting communications in energy, environmental, scientific, engineering, research, or technology-focused organizations.

Benefits

• Employees and their families are offered medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, robust telehealth care options, several mental health benefits, free wellness coaching, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, basic life insurance, disability insurance*, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, tuition assistance, relocation, backup childcare, legal benefits, supplemental parental bonding leave, surrogacy and adoption assistance, and fertility support.
• Employees are automatically enrolled in our company-funded pension plan* and may enroll in our 401 (k) savings plan with company match*.
• Employees may accrue up to 120 vacation hours per year and may receive ten paid holidays per year.