What are the responsibilities and job description for the Media Relations Senior Specialist position at Southern California Edison (SCE)?
Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a Media Relations Senior Specialist at Southern California Edison and help build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll carry out important work like writing social media and media copy, analyzing media and social media metrics, maintaining media databases, distributing press releases and managing third party service providers (including budgets). You will work with a strong and dedicated team in an exciting environment; your communications and analytical skills will be an asset to the company. This role serves as PIO during Incident Management Team activations and after hours (including nights and weekends) on call duty on a rotational basis.
As a Senior Specialist, 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
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.
Become a Media Relations Senior Specialist at Southern California Edison and help build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll carry out important work like writing social media and media copy, analyzing media and social media metrics, maintaining media databases, distributing press releases and managing third party service providers (including budgets). You will work with a strong and dedicated team in an exciting environment; your communications and analytical skills will be an asset to the company. This role serves as PIO during Incident Management Team activations and after hours (including nights and weekends) on call duty on a rotational basis.
As a Senior Specialist, 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
- Prepares correspondence and communication materials for business priorities based on the broader strategy guidelines for distribution.
- Creates specific content, visuals and initial drafts (such as newsletters, presentations, project communication materials, digital platforms and other documents) that align with the company's message.
- Manages communications vehicle(s) as necessary.
- Facilitates stakeholder engagement, handles inquiries and complaints, and assists with post engagement analysis.
- Liaises and coordinates with important partners, which could include internal colleagues and external stakeholders.
- Conducts data analysis, delivers insights and participates in learning sessions to make informed decisions for content development.
- Helps to develop communications plans, recommending specific tactics, distribution channels, timing and execution strategies, as well as monitoring campaign performance and reporting on results.
- Aids with communications initiatives, supports events and performs other communication tasks, including research and tracking communications trends.
- Reviews all materials and content for quality and brand alignment.
- 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.
- Five or more years of experience in Corporate Communications within a corporate and/or agency environment.
- Media and social media experience - either as a reporter in a newsroom or in an agency or corporate environment.
- Experience analyzing media and social media metrics (and preparing reports), knowledge of media landscape and proficient in all social media platforms.
- Experience with Factiva, Cision and BusinessWire.
- Ability/desire to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong customer service/communications skills.
- Excellent writing skills/abilities for media and social media platforms.
- 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.
- There may be a writing assessment as part of the interview process.
- Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
- Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
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.
