Communications

• Handle complex technical challenges, lead UC implementations, and oversee platform upgrades
• Ensure optimized communication services across the enterprise
• Develop and deploy UC solutions, including VoIP, SIP, and cloud-based communication platforms
• Lead engineering designs and technical refresh projects that directly impact mission success
• Collaborate with vendors, service providers, and IT teams to ensure smooth UC operations
• Work closely with security teams, network engineers, and support staff to improve system integration
• Troubleshoot system failures and accessibility issues
• Draft Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for UC operations
• Develop and maintain knowledge base articles, handling 'how to' inquiries
• Perform system upgrades and apply upgrades and patches to Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) and IOS upgrades on UC systems
• Support UC Knowledge Management (KM) by entering solutions into the knowledge database
• Make recommendations to enhance efficiency in UC monitoring, management, and overall operations
• Implement emerging UC technologies
• Apply security protocols, encryption, and compliance with industry standards (NIST, DoD security guidelines, STIGs)
• Work independently in remote locations, functioning as a primary engineering and network troubleshooting resource
• Resolve UC-related tickets escalated to the engineering team and coordinate resolutions across UC Operations staff
• Conduct root cause analysis
• Implement encryption, security protocols, and compliance measures (e.g., NIST, DoD guidelines, STIGs)
• Mentor junior staff, provide leadership in UC implementations, and optimize system performance
• Participate in project management for major upgrades and refresh cycles

Unified Communications Engineer

• Take complex technical issues and concepts during critical incidents and translate them into “business-speak” quickly and efficiently.
• Consolidate information from different sources (engineering and support) and write appropriate updates for different audiences, including customers (external Trust site), executives (internal summaries), and customer-facing (internal with greater detail), ensuring stakeholders are kept informed during incidents and always have the most up-to-date information.
• Develop trusted partnerships and collaborate throughout the Salesforce enterprise to build good working relationships across all functions and alignment across the business.
• Help build strategies and action plans that enable customers for success.
• Ensure Incident Response readiness through training sessions, periodic incident response simulations, tests, and drills.
• Be part of an occasional on-call rotation for crisis communications to develop customer-facing materials to address unplanned incidents and events that impact customers’ ability to use the Salesforce service.

Senior Specialist, Critical Incident Communications

• Write and edit website content, campaigns, property descriptions, announcements, blogs, reports, and internal communications
• Manage marketing timelines, deadlines, priorities, and follow-up
• Coordinate marketing onboarding for new properties
• Track missing information, project ownership, and next steps
• Support SEO, AI-assisted content, public relations, and company communications
• Maintain accurate, consistent, brand-aligned messaging

Marketing Communications Specialist

• Develop and execute integrated communications strategies to advance organizational priorities and shape external narratives
• Lead proactive and reactive media engagement, identifying emerging issues and opportunities for Onebrief to lead, respond to, or shape the debate
• Partner closely with government relations, legal, marketing and senior leaders to translate complex issues into clear, compelling communications
• Oversee the drafting, approval, and dissemination of external materials, including press releases, op-eds, and digital content
• Direct rapid response efforts, developing real-time communications and messaging aligned with reputational priorities
• Build, mentor, and manage the communications team to ensure high-quality output, operational discipline, and alignment with company goals

Director of Communications

• Participate in the planning and execution of fundraising communications at the direction of the Director of Strategic Communications
• Draft communications that adhere to the established Seattle Symphony voice, including fundraising appeals, stewardship messages and campaign content across print and digital channels
• Assist in implementing annual fundraising campaigns (e.g., GiveBIG, year-end and subscription appeals, etc.)
• Manage day-to-day campaign logistics including creating communications, managing approvals, proofing and distribution across channels
• Participate in maintaining and updating Development content in the Encore concert program, including stewardship and cultivation messaging
• Work closely with in-house design team to project manage creation of fundraising assets from draft through final delivery
• Contribute ideas for improving donor communications and strengthening engagement across audiences
• Participate in cross-departmental communications and planning meetings
• Maintain project tracking and organization through Asana and similar tools
• Proofread and provide edits on organizational communications to ensure accuracy, quality and adherence to the Seattle Symphony’s style guide
• Support events and concert duty as required, including evenings and weekends
• Provide general support to the Development department as needed

Development Communications Manager

• Serve as the senior technical authority for enterprise Unified Communications (UC) environments, providing leadership on strategic initiatives and mission-critical assignments.
• Establish goals, roadmaps, and project plans aligned with organizational objectives.
• Design, engineer, integrate, and optimize enterprise voice, video, and collaboration platforms including Cisco CUCM, Unity Connection, Expressway, and Microsoft Teams Voice.
• Provide Tier 4 troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and resolution for complex outages and performance issues.
• Analyze network performance, traffic flows, interfaces, and protocols to recommend improvements and modernization efforts.
• Integrate UC solutions with Active Directory, cloud services, virtualization platforms, and network infrastructure.
• Implement secure communications using TLS, SRTP, certificates, IPSEC, and ensure compliance with applicable standards such as DISA STIGs.
• Lead projects such as technology refreshes, data center migrations, and collaboration platform enhancements.
• Partner with clients and stakeholders to assess needs, analyze data, and recommend solutions.
• Develop and maintain SOPs, engineering documentation, diagrams, and technical standards.
• Mentor team members, advise leadership, delegate effectively, and collaborate across all organizational levels.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Unified Communications Engineer – SME

• Lead communications strategies for executives
• Develop and promote content that reinforces company values
• Collaborate with stakeholders to shape initiatives
• Deliver executive presentations
• Use metrics to track and measure results

Senior Executive Communications Manager

• Build the operating rhythm, channels, mechanisms, and measurement approach that keep employees informed, connected, and aligned to Seismic’s priorities.
• Establish a consistent drumbeat for CEO and executive communications, while developing mechanisms to understand employee communication needs and sentiment.
• Partner directly with the CEO and ELT to craft high-stakes messaging, including strategy shifts, performance updates, organizational changes, and key leadership moments.
• Prepare executive narratives for All Hands, QBRs, and other company forums, and build manager communication toolkits that improve cascade effectiveness.
• Translate MVV into clear, practical narratives that help employees understand what it means for how we work.
• Reinforce those messages consistently through communication touchpoints, leader messaging, manager enablement, and employee storytelling.
• Partner with HR, Legal, and business leaders to manage sensitive, high-ambiguity communications with clarity and care.
• Build a data-driven internal communications function that uses employee insights, engagement data, and feedback loops to continuously improve messaging, channels, and communication strategy.

Head of Internal Communications

• Bridges the gap between executive vision and day-to-day operations, ensuring all internal and external communications are cohesive, culturally aligned, and measurable.
• Ability to take complicated issues and translate them into simple and direct products that are consistent and accurate.
• Writes, edits, and oversees high-quality content across newsletters, SharePoint, storytelling, change management strategy and engagement, Town Halls, FAQs, scripts, talking points, presentations, QA, surveys, hot sheets, executive leadership engagement, internal channels, etc.
• Tracks, measures, and reports on communication metrics (e.g., audience engagement, web traffic, press coverage) to continuously optimize strategies. Establish and monitor feedback loops, change management champions, facility focus groups, such as anonymous suggestion boxes and pulse surveys, to gauge employee sentiment and address anxieties.

Communications Specialist

• Advancing McDonough School of Business’s communications strategy
• Effectively communicating faculty research, thought leadership, student experiences, and programmatic priorities
• Developing and executing integrated communications strategies
• Serving as media relations manager and collaborating with marketing and communications colleagues
• Contributing to content creation to elevate school visibility
• Executing communications around Dean’s Office initiatives and other school priorities
• Coordinating media relations and managing relationships with PR agencies
• Participating in the execution of the school’s editorial strategy

Associate Director of Communications

• Monitor social channels to identify trending topics and opportunities related to our issue areas
• Write social media content and schedule posts in Sprout Social to support the flow of content on X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky
• Film and edit short-form vertical video
• Help expand our digital presence through engagement with followers and peer channels
• Read articles and conduct searches to identify reporters covering our issue areas
• Support the drafting of press releases and quotes
• Use Muck Rack to distribute releases to key reporters and maintain reporter lists

Communications Intern

• Assist in the research of policy initiatives/outcomes of the Democratic governors and their opponents for use in campaign communications;
• Assist in media monitoring and the compilation of news articles pertaining to the political landscape of governors and gubernatorial candidates;
• Assist in the management of important databases such as press contacts and political contacts;
• Assist in the production of meeting materials and news clips summaries for DGA staff and governors;
• Assist in drafting social media content for publication;
• Help with other special projects, assignments, and tasks as assigned by DGA Communications, Research, Political, Digital, and Administrative staff.

Communications Internship

• Writing and publishing content on SEI.org to promote new publications, ongoing projects, researcher interviews and upcoming events
• Drafting written and visual elements for social media posts
• Writing marketing materials for SEI projects and programs
• Providing input on and executing webpage updates
• Writing and publishing internal newsletters
• Developing original video and/or graphic design content for our website and social media channels

• 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

• Partner with Journals editorial leadership and the APA Open Science and Methodology (OSM) Expert Panel to advance APA Journals’ open science initiatives
• Participate in OSM meetings and translate priorities into actionable communication and outreach plans
• Develop and execute strategic plans to promote APA Journals’ open science practices (e.g., transparency, reproducibility, open data/materials, and related policies), ensuring messaging is consistent across channels and stakeholder groups
• Create and maintain librarian-, consortia-, and researcher-facing communications that articulate APA’s open science initiatives, participation pathways, and the value of APA as a standards-setting, nonprofit scholarly publisher
• Develop practical resources (FAQs, toolkits, templates, and presentations) that help authors, librarians, and consortia understand and adopt APA open science practices and Open Access options
• Support APA Read & Publish and other Open Access agreements by partnering with Sales/Business Development to inform outreach, strengthen relationships with libraries/consortia (e.g., regular reporting), and help ensure that agreements deliver mutual value for customers and APA
• Collaborate with Author Marketing to plan and deliver institution- and community-based outreach that increases awareness of open science initiatives and encourages engagement from authors and editors
• Collaborate with Library Marketing and Product Development to build sustained, librarian- and consortia-focused community engagement (webinars, listserv/communication plans, and campaigns) that promotes APA’s open science priorities and awareness of APA as a non-profit standards-setting scholarly publisher
• Monitor and synthesize developments in Open Access and open science standards, funder policies, and competitor practices; share insights internally to inform messaging, positioning, and program priorities
• Serve as an internal advocate for librarians, consortia, and research communities by capturing stakeholder feedback and ensuring it is reflected in communications, resources, and program development
• Analyze market and customer data (including agreement performance indicators and engagement metrics) to inform outreach strategies, identify opportunities to improve adoption, and support data-informed internal decision-making
• Develop and maintain annual communication and engagement plans for key library and consortia relationships, including segmented outreach calendars and coordinated touchpoints
• Provide stakeholder support by developing clear guidance and user materials related to Open Access agreements and open science participation (including how-to resources and referral pathways for questions)
• Track and report on key performance indicators (e.g., awareness/engagement, resource usage, agreement-related activity, and community feedback) and use findings to refine strategies and demonstrate impact
• Support outcomes sharing and performance reporting for Open Access and Read & Publish agreements (e.g., article output, usage/engagement, and other success measures) in collaboration with internal partners
• Other duties as Assigned

Scholarly Communications Manager – Open Science

• Define and own Zillow's employee communications strategy
• Partner directly with senior leaders to help them communicate with clarity and authenticity
• Lead communications for Zillow's company all-hands and other large-scale internal moments
• Build and scale a leadership communications program
• Establish channel strategy and governance across various platforms
• Build measurement practices that track communication effectiveness
• Spot gaps before they become problems and bring solutions

Senior Director, Employee Communications

• Develop and implement comprehensive communications strategies to promote the AHLA Foundation, including both overarching messaging and individual program initiatives.
• Drive promotion of organizational research, translating findings into accessible and compelling content for diverse audiences.
• Lead and elevate communications tied to committee work, highlighting member engagement and key outcomes.
• Support internal communications, ensuring members and staff are informed, aligned, and engaged with organizational priorities.
• Support advocacy communications efforts as needed.
• Manage team members and budget.

Vice President, Communications

• Lead strategic efforts for clients navigating serious public challenges and reputational risks.
• Act as the primary point of contact for corporate leaders and legal teams.
• Create and run communications plans to handle active threats.
• Coordinate with internal teams specializing in data, digital media, and creative design.
• Draft high-stakes materials under tight deadlines.
• Manage incoming media inquiries and proactively ensure client’s narrative is told accurately.
• Shape stories directly with journalists to protect a client’s brand.
• Manage internal teams across offices to assure accuracy and timeliness of work.
• Act as a manager and coach for junior staff during crisis communication situations.
• Work with agency leadership to draft client-ready proposals and identify new business opportunities.

Director – Crisis Communications

• Responsible for the execution of external and internal communications programs and projects including public relations, digital communications, HR and business unit communications counsel, and promotion of G.E.H.A’s community investment strategy
• Establish processes, standards for execution, and set the bar for quality content that represents G.E.H.A well to both internal and external audiences
• Work collaboratively with other members of the Communications team as well as team members from other support functions like Marketing and HR
• Provide counsel to C-suite executives on a regular basis
• Provide strategic counsel to executives and business partners
• Manage communication channels (web, intranet, social media)
• Participate in relevant communications/media events and conferences as assigned
• Assist with implementation of crisis communications and issues management plans as needed

Brand Reputation – Communications Manager

• Develop and execute communications and visibility strategies in partnership with senior Communications team members, including press releases, website content, and related efforts highlighting Firm developments, capabilities, transactions and litigation victories.
• Identify and evaluate opportunities to elevate the profile of Firm practices and partners through media engagement, thought leadership campaigns, and media commentary; prepare related messaging and background materials.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key media outlets and contacts and facilitate the cultivation of media relationships for priority partners.
• Develop strategy and execution for contributed content and digital channels, including bylined articles, website updates (partner biographies, practice content), and LinkedIn content in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
• Support Firm positioning through awards and market intelligence, assisting in awards and survey strategy and preparation, monitoring industry media and newswires, and providing competitive intelligence on peer‑firm activity.
• Support Communications and Client Development and Engagement Department initiatives and operations, including in the development of marketing and promotional materials, mentoring junior team members, and contributing to broader Firm projects, policies, and processes.

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Unified Communications Engineer

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Unified Communications Engineer – SME

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Head of Internal Communications

Communications Specialist

Associate Director of Communications

Communications Intern

Communications Internship

Communications Intern

Principal – Internal Communications

Scholarly Communications Manager – Open Science

Senior Director, Employee Communications

Vice President, Communications

Director – Crisis Communications

Brand Reputation – Communications Manager

Senior Manager, Communications