Communications Specialist Jobs

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We have a top client in the Troy, MI area seeking a Communications Specialist.

Job Summary:

• Support and lead the IT organization’s company-wide and business-specific communication initiatives, lead training programs and projects as well as create engaging and impactful content for employees and leaders.
• This position is responsible for creating and providing writing expertise for the company's IT organization enterprise communication.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide recommendations and tools for the IT role-based training program to support career development
• Define governance structure and stage gate reviewers/approvers for each phase of onboarding
• Define and support IT learning paths for job families
• Develop integrated onboarding approach and onboarding toolkit for IT employees
• Define IT learning paths based on skills analysis and career paths / job families
• Define and support IT training program approach & recommendations to leverage on a go-forward basis
• Gauge employee readiness for integration changes & BAU adoption.
• Training / onboarding needs analysis to identify gaps in information and legacy knowledge
• 50% of time: IT Skills Assessment/Training and Onboarding Framework-
• Conduct current state skills analysis to identify gaps in skills / capabilities required to support the future IT organization
• 50% of time: Communications-This accountability comprises responsibilities to deliver consistent company-wide messaging and talking points to drive message consistency across the IT organization.
• IT onboarding approach and framework to support employees’ transition
• Ongoing execution of communications and change management interventions in support of integration goals and overall cultural alignment
• Conduct benchmarking analysis to understand industry trends and inform IT skills taxonomy

Job Requirements:

• Must have the industry knowledge, judgement, and perspective to understand, assess and make recommendations about media inquiries.
• Must understand and have the skill to tell company’s story across various media.
• Must have strong writing and editing skills and the versatility to be able to write executive speeches, talking points, press releases, audio/video scripts, marketing materials, web writing, social media content as well as customer and employee communications.
• Must have active listening skills, attention to detail, collaboration, oral and written communications, customer and client focus, influence, presentation skills, adaptability, business acumen, planning and strategic thinking.

Education:

• Bachelor Degree preferred

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