Communications

• Lead Strategy Communications & Change Activation
• Translate corporate strategy and annual business goals into a clear, compelling enterprise narrative and messaging framework.
• Define what strategy adoption looks like in practice by connecting strategy to employees’ day-to-day work and decisions.
• Partner with head of global communications to align messaging, priorities, and expectations across the organization.
• Create scalable toolkits, guides, and messaging resources that enable leaders to consistently communicate priorities, reinforce expectations and drive alignment.
• Establish clear roles and expectations for leaders in driving engagement and alignment.
• Build an employee content strategy that ensures ongoing strategy reinforcement through everyday workflows and tools, including an ongoing editorial calendar of strategy-driven content and storytelling.
• Create a structured employee learning journey to ensure communications connect strategy to behaviors, performance expectations, and business outcomes.
• Define the communication channel framework across executive, manager, and enterprise platforms.
• Align CEO town halls, earnings communications, and intranet strategy to reinforce strategic priorities.
• Partner cross functionally to identify and communicate the company’s progress in driving growth and strategic priorities across global business units, corporate functions and operations.
• Manage Internal Communications & Employee Engagement
• Manage the internal communications team to develop and implement integrated communications plans that align with enterprise goals, organizational transformation, employer brand and talent development.
• Lead and develop global internal communications channels, ensuring consistent, clear, and engaging communication across the organization.
• Improve communications and engagement for manufacturing and production employees using channels such as signage, frontline leader toolkits and training, and mobile-optimized formats.
• Support M&A integration to align new employees to Graco’s culture and strategy.
• Create high-quality multimedia content to engage employees, including executive videos and storytelling.
• Support Annual Report and ESG Report production.
• Implement new internal communication systems, tools, and processes to improve employee experience and engage a global workforce.
• Team Leadership, Collaboration & Culture Building
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing communications team, fostering strategic growth and accountability.
• Build strong cross-functional partnerships to ensure cohesive, aligned communication across the enterprise.
• Balance strategic planning with timely execution.
• Measure Strategy Understanding, Alignment & Behavior Change
• Define success metrics that go beyond communication outputs to measure: Employee understanding of strategy.
• Alignment to priorities.
• Adoption of desired behaviors.
• Connection to daily work.
• Establish measurement frameworks that include business, attitudinal, and content performance metrics.
• Provide regular insights and recommendations to senior leadership to improve effectiveness and drive accountability.
• Establish, measure and present quarterly KPIs for communications effectiveness, including awareness, engagement, sentiment, trust, and reputation.
• Develop and communicate communications processes, workflows and strategies to drive consistency and quality of communications.
• Apply best practices, emerging trends, and modern tools, including agentic and generative AI, to enhance communication impact.

Senior Manager, Internal Communications

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, providing strategic communications counsel that supports business priorities and organizational goals.
• Develop and execute integrated communication strategies and plans that connect business initiatives, operational priorities, and change programs into cohesive and compelling narratives.
• Create executive communications, frontline messaging, presentations, talking points, video and podcast scripts, and leadership materials tailored to branch audiences.
• Partner closely with readiness, training, operations, risk, compliance, and business stakeholders to ensure communications support successful adoption and execution of business initiatives.
• Translate complex information into simple, clear, and actionable content that helps leaders and employees understand what is changing, why it matters, and what actions are required.
• Drive channel management strategies that align messaging across multiple communication platforms and experiences.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve communication effectiveness and recommend solutions that enhance audience engagement and business outcomes.
• Foster strong partnerships across a highly matrixed organization, incorporating feedback and balancing diverse stakeholder perspectives to deliver the best outcomes.
• Leverage AI and emerging technologies to improve productivity, accelerate content development, strengthen insights, and drive communication innovation.

Lead Communications Specialist – Branch Banking

• Own ActBlue's comprehensive internal communications strategy — defining KPIs, goals, benchmarks, and success metrics for the function, and driving accountability against them
• Lead both strategic direction and hands-on production, setting the framework for organizational communications while personally executing high-impact content including executive messages, all-staff meeting materials, and the internal newsletter
• Own production and strategic direction of ActBlue's internal newsletter, including content strategy, editorial calendar, and channel standards that engage, inform, and inspire staff while advancing organizational objectives
• Define and maintain standards for all internal communication channels (Slack, email, Confluence), including editorial calendars, style guidelines, and quality benchmarks
• Lead content development and set the strategic direction for quarterly virtual All-Staff Meetings (200+ attendees), independently translating organizational objectives into compelling programming that drives employee engagement
• Partner closely with People & Culture to support change management communications and employee experience goals, ensuring organizational changes are communicated effectively across the workforce
• Own 25% of content creation for annual in-person All-Staff Retreats, producing programming that strengthens organizational culture and connection across the distributed workforce
• Prepare and counsel Executive Leadership Team members directly for internal communications events and high-stakes situations, providing strategic guidance and proactively identifying issues before they escalate
• Serve as the top-level escalation point and subject matter expert on internal communications for all staff, managers, and leaders — and as a key thought partner for senior leaders and the executive team
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion in all communications, working closely with DEI leadership to ensure inclusive messaging, authentic representation of lived experiences, and accessibility considerations for remote and distributed staff across all demographics
• Receive advance, confidential briefings on contemplated organizational changes, restructurings, and workforce actions prior to union notice, including the underlying business rationale and labor strategy, in order to develop communications sequencing that protects bargaining leverage and legal notice timelines
• Define and drive communication effectiveness metrics, using data to continuously refine strategy and demonstrate the impact of the internal communications function to leadership

Principal – Internal Communications

• Format, upload, and publish content across social media platforms
• Ensure all content is accessible and discoverable — applying alt text, captions, tagging, and link formatting across platforms
• Support translation workflows to extend the reach of NP's work across languages
• Draft social media assets, including: Graphics using branded templates, Short video clips (cutting, trimming, subtitling), Media resized and optimized for platform specifications
• Upload press clips, blogs, and publications to the website, keeping NP's digital presence current and organized
• Monitor incoming comments and messages across channels, flagging and routing as appropriate
• Pull and compile analytics from social and web dashboards to help inform communications performance
• Monitor breaking news, media trends, and viral stories that align with NP’s work to help identify potential media opportunities
• Support in the research and update of NP’s Master Media List, and consolidate the contacts on Cision into the same list
• Help track and record NP’s media outreach efforts and media hits on Salesforce
• Help create a regular newsletter featuring NP’s media mentions and other relevant humanitarian stories where NP has a presence
• Perform additional tasks and duties as the teams needs evolve and as identified by the supervisor

Communications Assistant

• Plans, manages, and evaluates company-wide communication strategies to ensure effective communication to employees, shareholders, and the community.
• Works with various business groups and senior management to develop and implement strong communication plans that will assist in meeting company goals and objectives.
• Evaluates complex information and strategically determines appropriate method of communication based on topic and company goals.
• Edits internal and external publications, writes speeches and provides media support.
• Represents U.S. Bancorp at various community, business, and educational events.
• May provide project management for special communication efforts, including acquisitions and divestitures.

Communications Manager

• Design and lead communication strategies aligned to business objectives and enterprise priorities
• Develop and execute internal and external communications, including media relations, thought leadership, and executive messaging
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, providing counsel on stakeholder messaging, reputation management, issues management, and strategic positioning
• Partner with Public Affairs, Marketing, Government Relations, and business leaders to ensure enterprise alignment and brand consistency
• Lead storytelling that highlights client impact, institutional initiatives, and market leadership
• Measure and report on communications effectiveness, using insights to refine strategy and demonstrate business value
• Lead and develop a high-performing communications team, ensuring high-quality execution.

Communications Lead – Institutional Client Group, Payments

• Develop and execute proactive media strategies aligned to enterprise priorities, business campaigns, and innovation launches.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with tier‑one, trade, and emerging digital media across relevant beats (business, technology, innovation).
• Lead media outreach, story pitching, press materials, interviews, and spokesperson preparation.
• Monitor media coverage, issues, and external trends; provide insight‑driven recommendations to leaders.
• Contribute to a digital‑newsroom approach to external communications, ensuring stories are designed for relevance, reach, and engagement across channels.
• Support communications for digital technology, innovation, and transformation initiatives, helping make complex concepts clear, credible, and human.
• Serve as a trusted communications partner to internal stakeholders across business, marketing, digital and executive teams.

Senior Communications Manager – Media, Digital

• Executing high-volume, business-critical communications that support daily mortgage operations, with a strong focus on accuracy, clarity, and timeliness
• Managing the development and distribution of key communications including seller guide updates, pricing communications, and business updates for lenders and clients, ensuring all messaging is clear, on-brand, and compliant
• Partnering closely with operations and sales leadership to align communications with business priorities while also planning and managing broader communication strategies to effectively reach internal and external audiences
• Evaluating complex information to determine appropriate communication approaches
• Editing internal and external publications
• Developing executive messaging
• Supporting enterprise communication initiatives, community engagement, and special projects

• Support collaboration and knowledge-sharing across the firm by project managing, drafting, proofreading, formatting, and producing high-quality digital newsletters.
• Coordinate with colleagues across the firm to gather and refine content.
• Review performance and recommend optimizations to both content and process based on feedback and analytics.
• Coordinate firm-wide communications by gathering information, drafting, proofreading, and producing announcements via email, intranet, and town hall/meeting presentations, in alignment with the firm’s visual and writing brand standards.
• Schedule and coordinate firm-wide meetings as needed.
• Optimize intranet by regularly posting events and announcements, updating content and documents, coordinating with practice groups and departments to ensure accuracy, and testing functionality and new features.
• Assist in maintaining editorial calendar and coordinating messaging schedules.
• Manage and support a wide range of digital communications, including building, proofreading, publishing, optimizing, and/or tracking performance of marketing content on the firm’s website, social media, email channels, and third-party platforms, such as legal directories, event sites, and media outlets.
• Coordinate the editorial production cycle by liaising with content writers and approvers, managing the editorial calendar, targeting content, optimizing by channel, providing quality review, responding to user feedback, and reviewing and communicating delivery success and results.
• Assist in maintaining and optimizing the firm’s website by testing new features and logging bugs and potential enhancements.
• Serve as a super user of the team’s project management tool. Maintain excellent knowledge of team processes for both internal and external communications and advise on how to leverage the PM tool to coordinate and achieve the team’s goals.
• Support on data management and reporting within the tool.
• Monitor key personnel updates across the firm and communicate to team members when marketing material updates are required.
• Manage contact data in the firm’s email client to improve integrity and support email deliverability.

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