Employee Communications Specialist
About The Position
Balfour Beatty is seeking a communications specialist to join our team in Dallas, TX. This is a hybrid position that requires working three days per week in the office and two days per week at home. The communications specialist position develops and distributes content geared at keeping our employees informed, engaged and inspired through a holistic employee communications approach. Using a variety of channels, the communications specialist creates content that captures engagement and targets information to employee audiences. The primary focus for this position is employee communications, with opportunities to support efforts across other communications disciplines (social media, campaigns and national marketing) to increase content leverage, message visibility and content pipeline.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing or a related field
- 5-plus years of relevant experience
- Familiar with Adobe software
Nice To Haves
- Having basic graphic design and video/gif creation skills is a plus but not required
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with broader communications team (including Group communications team when applicable), local marketing teams and functional department leaders to identify, develop and execute communications needs
- Employ the creative content development process to produce compelling copy for a broad array of channels and audiences
- Turn complex technical topics into approachable and relatable content that appeals to our various stakeholder audiences
- Produce bi-monthly digital employee newsletter, including but not limited to collect and/or edit articles, images and other supporting assets from content contributors, as well as write feature articles, headlines and subheads as assigned. This will include basic sizing and cropping of images, sourcing brand applicable stock imagery and creation of simple supporting graphics
- Edit and proof own work to ensure accuracy and alignment with brand style guide; work through revisions with various stakeholders to deliver approved content on deadline
- Partner with Employee Communications Manager on the creation/distribution of other employee communications such as memos and employee events and meeting invitations
- Maintain and update all relevant information in employee communications platform, including saved distribution lists, tags, etc.
- Work with team producing leadership’s virtual (MS Teams) all employee meetings, including share presentations, videos, monitor Q&A and other ‘back of house’ activities
- Create and deploy weekly line up of screensaver content
- Create gifs for use on various employee communications channels
- Create digital signage content published to tvs at offices and jobsites
- Perform and/or coordinate other activities as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
