
Communications Specialist
Vistra
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Maryland • Virginia • United States
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About the role
- Develop and maintain the organization’s Communications Plan to include messaging to target audiences, using demographics, psychographic data, and market research
- Develop and maintain an electronic communications calendar, building a library of stock messages that can be distributed via social and digital platforms
- Develop and maintain broad student communication and email to enhance the student experience and improve efficiencies
- Test, analyze, and suggest improvements to email marketing campaigns on an ongoing basis
- Translate complex strategies, ideas, and strategic objectives into actionable digital marketing campaigns
- Track and report all marketing analytics, including social media, email, targeted marketing campaigns
- Support the communications team through quality assurance methods to ensure message alignment and quality
- Use project management tools and documentation platforms to streamline marketing and web content workflows and coordinate team activities
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Public Relations, Communications, Computer Science, or a related field
- 5 years of experience with communications, social media, and digital marketing
- Proficiency in email marketing management platforms, with a preference for Salesforce or GovDelivery
- Experience with social media and email messaging development
- Experience with marketing automation utilizing Salesforce or another CRM platform
- Experience with quality assurance for communications products
- Demonstrated knowledge of email best practices and global standards, including CAN-SPAM, CASL, GDPR and other government and institutional privacy policies
- Experience with Hootsuite, Sprout Social, Meta Business Suite, and similar social media management platforms
- Experience with project management and documentation platforms, including Jira, Trello, Microsoft Planner, or similar
- Ability to manage and update complex communication plans across multiple media types
- Experience working with government or military digital marketing campaigns preferred
- Experience with performing a content audit or content inventory
- Ability to prioritize tasks and work in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to obtain a security clearance or DoW background investigation
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Hard Skills & Tools
email marketing managementdigital marketingmarketing automationquality assurancecontent auditmarket researchanalytics trackingmessaging developmentproject management
Soft Skills
communicationorganizationalprioritizationadaptabilityteam coordination