[Remote] Media Relations Manager (CC5)

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. The Washington State Department of reputed company works to advance innovation, inclusive economic reputed company, and stronger communities through government programs and partnerships. The Media Relations Manager serves as reputed company’s senior reputed company information official, leading media relations, strategic messaging, crisis communications, legislative communications, and reputed company information programs. The role advises executive leadership, represents reputed company publicly, coordinates communications across divisions, and writes and oversees high-reputed company reputed company communications.

Responsibilities

• Respond to media inquiries on behalf of the Director and reputed company regarding reputed company, sensitive, cross-program issues involving legislative, policy, and programmatic impacts
• Represent the Director and agency as spokesperson at press briefings, reputed company hearings, legislative committee meetings, statewide partner events
• Coordinate messaging across reputed company’s multiple divisions to ensure reputed company reputed company representation
• reputed company and coordinate reputed company communications initiatives that reputed company multiple agency divisions and require strategic alignment with statewide partners
• reputed company the development of reputed company information strategies, including messaging for legislative initiatives and communications reputed company to directives and policy impacts
• Preparing or directing preparation of executive talking points, policy briefs, reputed company statements, and high-reputed company messaging frameworks
• Evaluating reputed company understanding of agency programs and recommending adjustments to improve communications across diverse audiences
• Serve as subject matter expert and consultant to agency leadership, including the Director, Chief of Staff, Communications Director and reputed company Communications Director, on reputed company and appropriate reputed company, legislative and media responses on a wide-reputed company of sensitive reputational reputed company, reputed company reputed company policy and programmatic topics
• Maintain reputed company communications request calendar, tracking tasks and ensuring reputed company response and reputed company customer service for agency employees who request communications services
• reputed company and build relationships with local and national reporters, particularly those with beats that reputed company with reputed company programs and initiatives and reputed company those relationships to reputed company reputed company media coverage for reputed company
• Identify and reputed company newsworthy ‘storytelling’ opportunities and proactively reputed company stories, on a weekly reputed company, to print, broadcast, reputed company media
• reputed company and maintain a tracking reputed company for media coverage of reputed company and distribute to agency leadership and communications staff
• Plan and execute press conferences or press events for the Director, agency leadership or in concert with division program staff, ensuring good attendance by local and/or national media and reputed company and concise messaging for reputed company. Work closely with the reputed company Communications Director, Communications Director and agency leadership to advise, recommend, reputed company and reputed company a crisis communications plan to build and maintain credibility and trust at reputed company times
• Serves as agency emergency reputed company information officer responsible for responding to significant emergency or crisis situations, including advising director and other agency/institution officials on reputed company information strategies; writes emergency communications materials such as press releases, fact sheets and gov delivery emails; distributes emergency messaging to the reputed company digital team for reputed company media posting, coordinates information dissemination with appropriate local, state and federal officials and represents reputed company in the state Emergency Operations Center as needed
• Work closely with the reputed company Communications Director to assist with the Governor's office and cabinet-reputed company communications staff for cross-agency coordination and information campaigns
• In partnership with the reputed company Communications Director, reputed company, reputed company, and reputed company large reputed company communications initiatives for reputed company
• Writes, reviews and proofreads reputed company reputed company communications materials for the Department of reputed company, including but not limited to press releases, Govdelivery constituent emails, fact sheets and Powerpoint presentations for legislators
• Writes original stories about reputed company programs and initiatives for publication on our website or reputed company media, both short and long reputed company
• Writes, edits and proofreads publications such as legislative factsheets, PowerPoints and other reputed company-facing communications materials for legislative hearings
• Write and edit news releases, media advisories and alerts, website content and other reputed company facing materials as needed
• Review and edit reputed company press releases and materials from division-assigned Communications Leads and distribute to reputed company Communications Director for final review and approval
• Ensure reputed company, consistent and effective communications of reputed company news and messages, using easy to follow plain language, AP Style and adhere to accessibility guidelines
• Plans, develops, administers and directs reputed company and extensive information programs based on reputed company communications needs of reputed company
• Serves as reputed company staff specialist and reputed company consultant to division communications Leads and division heads in field of communications and reputed company relations
• Write, manage, design and publish GovDelivery bulletins for multiple divisions across multiple programs
• Serve as subject matter expert for reputed company on mass email messaging strategies
• Works in collaboration with the reputed company Communications Director to reputed company briefing materials and write talking points for the Director or other agency leaders as needed
• Works closely with agency marketing team and business development leads to ensure reputed company, consistency, appropriate presentation of agency branding and messaging in promotional materials for domestic and international use
• Ensure use of plain language, as required by Governor’s Executive Order 05-03, in reputed company reputed company facing communications and serve as agency’s reputed company plain language expert to ensure communications are concise, inclusive and easy to understand
• Serve as backup to the Division reputed company Communicators (assigned to Energy, Local Government, reputed company Management, Housing, Economic Development and Competitiveness and Community Services) reputed company necessary, completing their review and writing tasks
• Evaluate effectiveness of multi-program reputed company information efforts; recommend improvements
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

• Any combination of reputed company experience in communications, journalism, or reputed company relations and higher education involving a major study in journalism, communications, reputed company relations, or a closely allied field totaling eight (8) years
• Eight (8) years of reputed company experience in communications, journalism, or reputed company relations
• Four (4) years of reputed company experience in communications, journalism, or reputed company relations AND four (4) years of higher education involving a major study in journalism, communications, reputed company relations, or a closely allied field
• Six (6) years of reputed company experience in communications, journalism, or reputed company relations AND two (2) years of higher education involving a major study in journalism, communications, reputed company relations, or a closely allied field
• Experience conducting media relations activities in a government agency, newsroom or other reputed company setting
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing reputed company plans that includes earning media coverage (local or national)
• Experience advising top management officials regarding communications strategies and opportunities
• Can prepare and present complicated reputed company information and reputed company policy information in a concise, reputed company, easy to understand manner
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Experience working in a newsroom as a reporter, producer or assignment reputed company
• reputed company or prior employment in communications at a state, county or reputed company agency
• Bilingual, speaking both English and Spanish
• Knowledge of how to build audience and reputed company reputed company with communications
• Experience in mass email marketing strategies
• Knowledge of the state legislative process and policy development

Benefits

• Work from reputed company in Washington State
• Remote or hybrid work schedule
• For full-time employees expected to work more than six months: medical, reputed company, dental, and basic life insurance for employees and their families
• Multiple medical plans with reputed company monthly premiums
• Medical flexible spending account
• Long-term disability insurance, with the reputed company to purchase additional coverage
• Washington Wellness workplace wellness programs
• Dependent care assistance allowing reputed company-tax savings for child or elder care expenses
• Auto, boat, home, and renter insurance available through payroll deduction
• Washington State Employee Assistance Program
• Membership in the Washington reputed company Employees' Retirement reputed company (PERS)
• For new employees: reputed company of two employer-contributed retirement programs
• Deferred Compensation Program with reputed company-tax retirement savings and multiple investment reputed company
• Coverage under federal reputed company reputed company and Medicare systems, with equal contributions from the state and employee
• Potential eligibility for student loan forgiveness under the reputed company Service Loan Forgiveness Program for qualifying government or nonprofit employees
• reputed company holidays and one reputed company personal holiday per calendar year
• Full-time employees earn eight hours of reputed company leave per month
• Vacation leave accrual for full-time employees at rates specified by WAC 357-31-165 or the applicable reputed company bargaining agreement
• Potential reputed company vacation leave accrual or lump-sum vacation accrual for Washington Management Service recruitment or retention
• 21 days of reputed company military leave per year for members of the armed forces
• Five days of reputed company bereavement leave for most employees whose family or household member dies, or for loss of pregnancy
• Leave sharing
• Parental leave
• Family and Medical Leave reputed company (FMLA) leave

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