What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Communication Manager position at NCCER?
Description
NCCER is seeking an accomplished Senior Manager of Communications who has at least 8 years of communications and marketing experience, ideally in a leadership role working with a variety of internal stakeholders including internal department leaders, executives, and board members. The ideal candidate will excel at creating exciting and useful messages, disseminating them to the right audiences through the best distribution channels – timed and coordinated with marketing and other messages. This is a hands-on role that will write and create communications as well as strategize their most effective release.
Requirements
- Develop communications campaigns that elevate the NCCER brand and bolster the organization's credibility.
- Develop overarching company storylines for media.
- Have your finger on the pulse of the news and provide creative ideas to gain media coverage.
- Plan and execute communications to drive NCCER's position as an industry thought leader and producer of meaningful research.
- Develop relationships and credibility with industry-specific media.
- Establish senior executives as expert sources for industry trends and commentary.
- Lead crisis communications efforts as needed.
- Develop OKRs and report on results.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, or related field
- 8 years' experience in public relations and/or marketing communications
- A track record of success in driving earned media.
- Outstanding written and verbal communications skills.
- Experience with presentation building - both narrative flow and design.
- Experience with crisis communications, executive visibility.
- A natural storyteller with excellent writing skills.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented and able to drive cross-functional deadlines consistently.
Preferred
- Experience in education technology, training, assessment, credentialing.
- Experience with or understanding of construction, other skilled trades.