Job Description

Overview:

REACH Strategies offers a great opportunity to join a growing strategic communications agency. We are looking for a Communications Program Strategist with demonstrated agency/client management experience that can grow with our team and develop and lead campaigns around the country.

This full-time, remote position will be located in or around St. Louis, MO. Please note - we only review applications that contain a cover letter and resume.

Our focus areas include the environment with a particular emphasis on clean energy and electric vehicles. We provide an excellent work environment and a strong emphasis on personal development and learning.

REACH Strategies helps the world’s leading companies, foundations, government agencies and non-profit organizations reach their social change goals by developing data-driven communications campaigns. We then help our partners execute those plans, conceiving and implementing tightly-linked outreach and engagement strategies designed to win in today’s world. We work across four mutually-reinforcing arenas:

Strategic Services

We deploy a range of data-driven approaches to set outreach strategies that will help our partners reach their goals. We work with companies, established and emerging major foundations, individual philanthropists, government agencies, and non-profits to develop a wide range of communications, campaign, organizational development, and business plans.

Engagement Services

Our experience design team develops engagement campaigns that create deep, life-changing and affirming user experiences. We help people gain first hand experience with the diverse, equitable and sustainable world we are helping foster with our work.

Campaign Services

From deep strategy work on leveraging the right mix of outreach tools to basic blocking and tackling to ensure that the most important work is completed, our campaign team ensures that our partners make steady progress toward their goals. We deploy a suite of custom project management and monitoring tools to mark progress and support course corrections.

Data Services

We provide easy to digest data about campaign impact. Our campaign reports document successes, identify areas for improvement, and inform future communication approaches. 

Summary of Position

As the Senior Communications Strategist, you will be a part of the REACH Strategies senior management team responsible for leading projects, managing staff, and adhering to project budgets. This role will support clients in developing and implementing strategic communications activities to advance beneficial electrification. This position will serve as a client point of contact, leading multiple client programs, and is a wide-ranging role well-suited for an experienced leader and self-starter who likes to do a variety of content-rich, engaging work. 

The candidate should possess creative drive and be able to articulate and document ideas to internal teams as well as external partners and stakeholders. The candidate should have experience managing communications campaigns and events and bring a sound understanding of campaign and engagement principles and associated measurement metrics. This position requires occasional travel and may require work outside of the traditional work day/week.

Please do not apply to this position if you do not intend to include a cover letter describing how your experience fits our needs. 

Responsibilities

Organizational Management

• Provide strong leadership for team members to help develop their knowledge and understanding of communications campaigns
• Contribute to the refinement of REACH Strategies’ management tools and project management processes
• Effectively manage a virtual team dispersed across time zones using multiple online collaboration tools 
• Leverage and maintain a comprehensive CRM database to best serve programmatic and organizational needs
• Manage multiple program budgets and work closely with the operations and finance team to responsibly distribute program resources and efforts

Growth and Development/Fundraising

• Develop strong client relationships to grow current programs
• Seek out and contribute to business development initiatives for REACH Strategies

Marketing and Communications

• Develop strategies and manage campaigns for multiple agency clients including public utilities, government agencies, and more
• Develop marketing and communications strategies to best position programs and clients
• Strategically assess and guide client communications programs
• Plan and deliver targeted communications campaigns using an appropriate suite of marketing tools
• Contribute to and manage the creation of communications materials, including messaging, promotional materials, press releases, Q&As, and other collateral
• Contribute to organizational marketing and communications efforts for REACH Strategies
• Manage multiple digital media platforms, including the management of websites, blogs, and multiple social media channels
• Liaise with and manage design, print teams, and suppliers

Engagement Programming and Events

• Develop, contribute to, and execute ongoing campaigns to grow electric vehicle adoption
• Design, conduct, analyze, and report market research
• Design and lead multiple engagement initiatives across multiple states rooted in large-scale community events and online learning programs
• Track metrics and evaluate outreach programs to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of service
• Nurture relationships with external stakeholders
• Monitor and analyze industry news and trends in regional, national, and trade media sources to inform approaches to programmatic and communication efforts

Client Management

• Serve as point of contact for program partners, stakeholders, and clients, leveraging program management skills to efficiently and effectively maintain open communication and program progress

Essential Skills & Qualifications

• Prior experience with clean energy and utility-related communications
• Minimum of 10 years of communications agency experience
• Minimum of 7 years event management experience
• Experience managing direct reports
• Experience in business development and fundraising
• Interest in promoting electric vehicles and sustainable economic development nationally
• Ability to anticipate needs/issues and to execute sound decision-making
• Understanding of user-centered design principles and the ability to apply them to communications campaigns
• Demonstrated capacity for critical, independent, and creative thinking and strategy
• Self-motivated with excellent planning and organizational skills
• Proven ability to handle a fast-paced environment and manage rapidly changing client-based priorities
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent communication and written skills
• Presentation and public speaking skills
• Strategic thinker, creative, and innovative
• Demonstrated leadership experience with a team player mentality and willingness to help others grow
• Proficiency with cloud-based collaboration tools
• Understanding of best practices for working remotely with a distributed team
• Demonstrated PR skills
• Ability to perform well in a virtual office and be highly productive while working in a remote setting
• Valid driver’s license

Software Experience (Preferred)

• Mac/PC
• Google Suite
• Microsoft Teams
• Asana
• Slack
• Zoho Suite
• Adobe Creative Suite

Compensation and Location

REACH Strategies offers an excellent benefits package and a competitive salary range for this position of $100-120K that is commensurate with skills and experience. This is a remote, work-from-home position though will require occasional in-person meetings; successful candidates will be located in the St. Louis or Chicago area. Occasional travel required in MO/IL and nationally. 

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