The Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE) advances policies and institutional actions that promote racial equity and shared prosperity for all in the growth of metropolitan Atlanta and the American South. We have grown our resources to support an operation of six (6) key issue areas; Just Energy (JE), Just Growth (JG), Just Health (JH), Just Opportunity (JO), Just Solutions (JS) and YES! for Equity.

JUSTICE40 ACCELERATOR

The Justice40 Accelerator seeks to radically reimagine the existing government resource delivery system as a restorative and reparative framework that supports climate and environmental justice organizations in building their capacity, partnerships and readiness to access government funding to implement community-designed solutions. The Communications Specialist will work as part of a collaborative team of communications professionals from across the Justice40 Accelerator’s partner organizations to promote the Accelerator’s work to a wide audience, including sharing the missions, experiences and stories of the Accelerator Cohorts, and their impact (through the Accelerator) in their respective communities.

The goal of the Communications Specialist is to research, write, and report stories to enhance engagement and build relationships with internal and external audiences. The primary focus of this position is to develop stories that highlight work in energy equity, including advocacy and programs to advance energy efficiency and clean energy, and to develop communications to support the Justice40 Accelerator. This individual will create compelling content, including impact stories, articles, blogs, and social media posts, to link the work of the Justice40 Accelerator with reporters, editors, producers, influencers and other stakeholders. This position will coordinate work in partnership with others while managing selected communications projects.

The Communications Specialist works as an integral member of the PSE team and applies analysis, writing, and editorial skills to identify and share PSE’s priorities and messaging, including curating story ideas and creating high quality communications assets that incorporate storytelling, public relations, marketing, multimedia and other approaches.

Duties And Responsibilities

The essential functions of this position include, but are not limited to:

Developing informative, user-friendly, customer-focused, and visually compelling content across all distribution channels (i.e., websites, social media, etc.) for internal and external communications in alignment with industry best practices.
Creating, proofing, and editing content including drafting emails and racial equity related newsletter articles, blogs feature stories, creating and editing digital images, video and other visuals.
Support communications activities to strengthen coordination of projects with portfolios and departments.
Contribute to the maintenance and upkeep of internal communications outreach and engagement calendar.
Assist in the drafting and editing of select written content for messaging and consistency in tone and style.
Administrative duties as assigned.
Assist in communication of strategies or messages from senior leadership
Assist in maintaining PSE’s social media presence as needed
Provide communications support for PSE meetings, convenings, cohort meetings, and other programming as needed.
When needed, identify photography, video production, graphic design, and print vendors who can assist as needed in creating content, and successfully manage working relationships with them.
Monitor news, research and reports that align with narratives to take appropriate action. This includes sharing stories, opinion pieces, blogs, etc. and interfacing with reporters, editors, producers and influencers.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

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