Skillful | Communications and Digital Director | Phoenix

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Communications and Digital Director 

Skillful is a new initiative, sponsored by the Markle Foundation, in partnership with LinkedIn, the State of Colorado, Arizona State University, and others. Skillful connects job seekers, training providers and employers to create a transparent, real-time digital labor market. In so doing, Skillful aims to help job seekers begin or continue on their career paths by connecting them with sustainable careers in growing industries that are hiring based on skills.

Precision Strategies, working alongside Markle in this initiative, is seeking to hire a Communications and Digital Director, who will support Skillful’s efforts in Phoenix. We are looking for a passionate, hard working, and dynamic digital organizer to create and manage the program that empowers these job seekers and engages them with our platform.

In this role the Communications and Digital Director will be responsible for designing and implementing a plan to engage job seekers and the public through online and offline organizing as well as execute an earned media plan. A successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable working independently and able to handle multiple streams of work in a fast-paced environment. Excellent written skills are necessary.

Responsibilities

• Conceive and implement the digital organizing program for the Colorado Skillful ground operation. 
  
• Create the content to engage local job seekers with the platform. 
  
• Develop a digital and social media presence for Skillful in Colorado. 
  
• Execute an effective local earned media campaign to draw greater attention to the Skillful platform. 
  

Necessary skills include:

• Digital media
 
  
• Experience in digital campaigning/online organizing 
  
• Communications experience a plus 

Understanding of best practices and workflows in the following areas:

• Public relations and media relations 
  
• Grassroots organizing 
  
• Social media and email strategy 
  
• Online content creation 
  
• Paid media advertising 

Technical skills

• Familiarity with CRMS like Blue State Digital, Mailchimp 
  
• An understanding of web analytics tools, including Google Analytics
 
  
• Proficiency for tasks like A/B testing, optimizations, and email segmentation 

Project management

• Proven organizational and people management skills in a campaign or advocacy environment 
  
• Experience with tight deadlines, lots of moving pieces, and long hours around key moments and deadlines 
  

Media Relations

• Willingness to build relationships with media outlets 
  
• Strong writing skills to develop press materials including press releases, talking points and opinion pieces 
  
• Ability to develop unique storylines and angles to gain press attention for Skillful’s tool set and success stories 
  
• Solid news judgment 

People skills


• A proven ability to work well with others, and a passion for organizing people around ideas both on and offline 
  

To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to Skillf...@precisionstrategies.com