ECLARO is seeking a Project Manager - Corporate Communications to support their client advocating for energy efficiency and clean energy technology. The role involves managing content for public and media relations, ensuring consistency in communications, and collaborating with various internal departments to enhance the client's visibility and engagement.
Responsibilities:
- Develop an in-depth understanding of a variety of program areas and help manage content including but not limited to writing, editing, and managing approvals for press releases, op-eds, talking points, and other documents to support public and media relations efforts
- Help ensure consistency of vision and tone across all Communications deliverables to develop content that builds public awareness of Client's programs and accomplishments
- Identify opportunities to expand Client's earned media reach by monitoring and analyzing trends; help inform internal reporting on same
- Help establish best practices with content creating on workflow, processes; help inform internal reporting on same
- Work closely with management to provide recommendations and guidance on creating content to support public relations efforts for Client programs and policies with the goal of achieving positive feedback among external and internal constituencies
- Work jointly with the Corporate Communications team to ensure that all items meet the highest professional standards of accuracy, clarity, and style
- Liaise with internal departments including marketing, web, and social media to ensure consistency of message
- Build networks within Client, and at NY Green Bank and other energy and environment agencies
- Perform other responsibilities as assigned
Requirements:
- Ability to perform all responsibilities with demonstrated experience fostering respect, diversity, equity and inclusion across the workforce
- Excellent work ethic, resolute integrity, detail oriented with a commitment to delivering a high-quality and accurate work product, with a track record of putting the success of the team first
- Ability to assess potential effects of Client decisions on public attitudes, effectively apprise Assistant Director of Communications and Director of Communications of such factors and help inform decision making
- Ability to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders, including executives in Client, and colleagues in other state agencies and industry organizations
- Excellent journalism, presentation and interpersonal skills that resonate with a variety of audiences; ability to communicate persuasively, concisely and unambiguously in speech and in writing
- The ability to express complex technical and organizational concepts in terms understandable to the news media and public; track record of creative and proactive approaches for pitching news stories
- Strong project management skills: ability to work well under pressure and a respect for internal and external deadlines; manage multiple diverse activities simultaneously, deliver on commitments and varying deadlines, and operate/make decisions with speed, accuracy and strong judgment
- Strong computer skills (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Asana, etc.)