Overview
Are you looking to take your career from good to great? As an employee of PenFed, every day is an opportunity to thrive, and be part of a team working to ensure our organization is providing world class service to our members, employees, and our communities. We exist to help our members realize their full potential, educate and encourage their dreams, and make every effort to follow our mission and help our members -do better.- Joining PenFed is more than being an employee; it's about being a part of the PenFed family.
PenFed is hiring a Part-time Associate, Corporate Communications at our Tysons, Virginia location. The primary purpose of this job is to support consistent, timely and relevant corporate messaging across PenFed audiences and channels. This role will be part of the team that leads communications efforts for the credit union's business line activities, organization updates, public affairs, community outreach and industry activities.
Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties and the position will perform other duties as assigned.
Utilize the best platforms and channels to efficiently disseminate and engage messaging and measure / analyze the results.
Ensure quality control during the process of content development, including writing, reviewing, editing, and publishing content.
Help to ensure integration and coordination of communications campaigns with internal marketing and social media teams.
Assist with managing vendor and partner relationships.
Internal Communications
Assist in creating a roadmap and content strategy that informs, aligns, and engages employees with the company's strategic direction, values, and culture.
Execute internal communications strategies and plans to keep employees informed about corporate initiatives.
Create engaging content for internal audiences including emails, informational articles, and presentations.
Collaborate with human resources, IT, and other departments to help develop and execute engaging employee-facing communications that drive awareness and understanding around companywide initiatives, employee benefits, new innovations, products, goals, cultural objectives and more.
Assist in the planning and execution of the internal editorial and content calendar.
External Communications
Serve as a point-of-contact for media.
Respond to incoming media requests.
Create communications materials for use with media and other external audiences to include press releases, media pitches, talking points, press kits, fact sheets, etc.
Conduct outreach and proactively pitch and place media stories.
Support the coordination and media interviews with company subject matter experts.
Help to support media campaigns and tours.
Research and identify new media opportunities.
Build and maintain relevant press lists; form relationships with individual journalists to support story development.Assist in managing media relations functions including media coverage tracking and analysis reports, and distribution of press releases
Qualifications
Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.
Bachelor's Degree in related field preferred and/or related experience that provide the necessary skills and knowledge to satisfactorily perform the essential job functions.
One (1) to three (3) years of experience in communications, public relations, journalism or equivalent.
Excellent analytical and statistical skills required
Expert knowledge of MS Office Suite
Work Environment
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an indoor office setting with moderate noise.
Most roles require working in an office setting with moderate noise and the ability to lift 25 pounds.
Travel
Ability to travel to various worksites and be on-call may be required.
Special Message Regarding COVID 19
PenFed is continuing to hire and train exceptional individuals to help us serve our 2 million members both here and around the world. In light of the current situation with COVID-19, we have modified our hiring, onboarding, training, and deployment protocols in order to comply with applicable current local and state guidance.
About Us
Established in 1935, PenFed today is one of the country's strongest and most stable financial institutions with over 2 million members and over $26 billion in assets. We serve members in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as in Guam, Puerto Rico and Okinawa. We are federally insured by NCUA and we are an Equal Housing Lender. We are available to members worldwide, via the web, seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day.
We provide our employees with a lucrative benefits package including robust medical, dental and vision plan options, plenty of paid time off, 401k with employer match, on-site fitness facilities at our larger locations, and more.
Equal Employment Opportunity
PenFed management will maintain and observe personnel policies which will not discriminate or permit harassment or retaliation against a person because of race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, military or veteran status or obligation, the presence of a physical and/or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, and all statuses protected by applicable state or local law in all recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, overtime, position classifications, work assignments, facilities, promotions, transfers, employee treatment, and in all other terms and conditions of employment. PenFed will also prohibit retaliation against individuals for raising a complaint of discrimination or harassment or participating in an investigation of same.
PenFed will also reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability so that they can apply for a job or perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace and the threat cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation or if the accommodation creates an undue hardship to PenFed. Contact human resources (HR) with any questions or requests for accommodation at 240-224-4256.
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