Senior Communications Specialist

Description & Requirements

This position will be a key member of our corporate communications team-developing and executing our social media strategy across Maximus' corporate social accounts and supporting corporate communications throughout the organization.

Your efforts will support our Federal, U.S.

Services, Corporate, and Recruitment stakeholders and will be imperative to delivering influential content to our various audiences while monitoring our reputation.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Research, gather and synthesize scientific and policy information translating that information into understandable, audience appropriate communication products.
- Understand, interpret, identify and select appropriate and scientifically accurate and understandable images and graphics to enhance communication products on a regular basis usable by a variety of audiences.
- Provide written and oral communications to support the client in relaying clear, concise, and understandable information to various target audiences.
- Includes developing and editing audience-appropriate reports, news articles, technical publications, brochures, periodicals, speeches, audio-visual materials, profiles, feature stories and Q & As for online, social media and printed content.
- Write, coordinate and upload stories, videos, and pictures to government websites and social media sites including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts.
- Release monthly and weekly newsletter for national and international audiences.
- Develop, explain and support data visualization materials on climate related topics using leading edge technologies to present information in a scientifically accurate, easy to use, and understandable medium for use by the targeted public.
- Locate high-quality sources of imagery, photos and visualization templates for use in formatting assets.
- Routine image preparation tasks include cropping, sub setting, color correction and other tasks, as needed, to provide the best quality image for the desired medium.
- Communicate scientific data and information through visual means.
- Includes but is not limited to the design, production, and display of photographs, graphics, data visualizations, videos, physical displays (such as models or live demonstrations), slides, and charts for the Internet, infographics, pamphlets, exhibits, live or video recorded speeches or lectures, and other means of communicating and go through multiple review cycles, as needed, with NOAA until it is scientifically accurate and understandable by the targeted audience.
- Explain and organize scientific and technical information in a popular style that is easily understandable and usable by non- scientists.
- Work with subject matter experts, when needed, to ensure the information or product is scientifically accurate and understandable by the targeted public

Additional Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

- Content Creation.

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