Communications Advisor (Copy Editor)

Job ID: 72683

Job Views: 33

Location: Rosemead, California, United States

Postal Code: 91770

Job Category: Corporate Publications | Newsletters

Employment Type: Full time

Salary: 126000-189000 USD per year

Posted: 07.09.2025

Job Description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Communications Advisor (Copy Editor) at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll lead the department’s copy-editing needs for a variety of channels and publications, including news releases, feature stories, executive social media posts, corporate reports, white papers, employee communications and more.

You will also oversee the department’s content translation process, project managing vendors to make sure quality control is maintained and managing the budget. Occasionally, you will help write narrative copy for various external and internal channels (SCE.com, Edison.com, Energized, newsroom, portal) aligned to business priorities, goals and enterprise content strategy.

Importantly, you have a knack for details and spot Oxford commas with ease and consider yourself an expert copy editor with mastery of AP Style. You have a strong focus on process, quality and continuous improvement.

This role serves as PIO during emergency Incident Management Team activations and after hours (including nights and weekends) on-call duty.

As a Communications Advisor, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

• Organizes and schedules communication releases, monitors channels for feedback, and ensures that all content is consistent with the company's brand and voice
• Supports effort with managing PR risks and crisis communications in conjunction with the central marketing leadership
• Manages, monitors, and reports on the effectiveness of corporate communications efforts
• Collaborates closely with agreed upon vendors to develop joint content strategies to maximize communication efforts
• Helps capitalize on opportunities to tell success stories around major projects, specifically highlighting community investments and partnerships
• Monitors the standard key messages/talking points created for management to use for primary corporate issues when in discussion with stakeholders; providing colleagues and clients with media relations advice and counsel, media training, news release writing, media distribution processes and media monitoring/issues tracking
• Updates and contributes to databases of communications materials ensuring SCE's ability to deliver a fast response and plan appropriate engagement activities
• Assists with critical communication material such as blogs, OPEDS, fact sheets, web copy, and other collateral in support of the company and its projects
• Carries out media-specific key messages and Q&A's, often in consultation with other members of the Public Affairs and Communications team, senior leaders and/or subject matter experts
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.
  
  

Job Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Seven or more years of experience in Corporate Communications within a corporate and/or agency environment.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Journalism, Public Relations, Marketing, Communications or related field.
• Newsroom copy editing experience.
• Expert understanding of AP Style.
• Strong project management and budget management experience.
• Strong organization and prioritization skills with a focus on quality.
• Experience working in a team environment on multiple concurrent projects and able to meet deadlines.
  
  

Additional Information

• This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days.  Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California.  Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
• Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
• A writing assessment will be required as part of the interview process.
  
  

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at (833) 343-0727.

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