Job Description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Planning Communications & Engagement, Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. The Advisor will join a newly established and growing team – Planning Communications and Engagement – dedicated to ensuring two-way communication across our work within Transmission and Distribution’s Planning. You will be responsible for engaging, aligning, and inspiring employees with our vision and strategies while providing leaders with the tools to help all employees understand their role in driving the success of SCE. To be effective, you must know how to identify and tell stories that make concepts like vision, strategy, and organizational priorities come to life in a relevant and memorable way. You will advise on the long-term communications and engagement strategy and lead subsequent development and implementation of key initiatives.

What are we looking for in an Advisor? Someone who can balance both strategic and tactical communications and engagement work. You will be responsible for keeping leadership and employees informed on key issues to drive success and share knowledge across the organization. You will understand where the communication and engagement gaps are and develop a plan to address them. At the same time, you will need to be able to set up and manage systems and processes to promote effective communications.

A day in the life - Get ready to think big, work smart and shine bright!

The Planning Communications & Engagement, Advisor position will manage projects, programs, and assignments that focus on continuous improvement to the T&D Planning community multi-discipline groups including; Local Planning, Technical Planning, New Development Planning (NDP), Transmission & Telecom Planning
Identify and engage with key stakeholders and conduct frequent check-ins to stay connected to the pulse of T&D Planning and DS&P initiatives
Create and disseminate content across multiple internal platforms, including newsletter, mass emails, Portal, among others
Apply communications judgment to ensure the right employee communications are crafted and distributed to the most appropriate employee group/segment
Serves as a primary conduit and build the engagement between Design Strategies & Performance (DS&P), T&D Planning teams, and T&D Communication teams
Manage projects from the point of defining the project scope, objective, to developing, maintaining, communicating, implementing, and sustaining project plan solution
Serve as lead amongst team and collaborates effectively with team to develop and assign content material for meeting forums and initiatives
Lead and support Planning meeting facilitation including maintaining meeting charters, roles, and responsibilities, team roosters, after-meeting summaries, and continued engagement across the teams
Meetings & forums include: Planning Appreciation Week, Planning Appreciation Page, Planning Safety Work Environment Congress (SWEC), Morale Team, Planning for Our Future (P4OF), Planning Team Leadership Forum (PTLC), and Leaders Engaged in Safety Conversations (LESC)
Coordinate and maintain Editorial calendar, existing or new resource centers in SharePoint, and MS platforms across PC&E and T&D Planning forums
Implement and establish processes to maintain key communication metrics and measurement for effectiveness across T&D Planning
Prepare leaders, managers, project teams on delivering communications in anticipating of Livestreams, Townhalls, and other forums across T&D.
Provide recommendations and improvement opportunities to develop and mature T&D Planning initiatives and communications

Qualifications

The Essentials

Seven years of communications or organizational development experience
MS Office Applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

The Preferred

Must have a Bachelor’s degree
Project and/or Program Management Certification
Familiar with MS Applications; such as Forms, Publisher, Project, Streams, MS Teams and SharePoint
Ability to work well as a team member, in a team environment, and be able to collaborate with peers, clients, management, and other organizations.
Experience with marketing tools (Canva, PowToon, InDesign)
Experience with Lotus Notes ERP Distribution Automation or comparable tool (set up, testing, and executing large scale emails)
Writing and editing experience
Planning experience is desired
Knowledge of DSU & DSN is desired
Experience developing and delivering presentations for employees and leadership
Strong interpersonal, planning and communication (written and verbal) skills
Experience with communication channels and engagement with large group settings
Ability to integrate work across related areas, develop the business and services to improve customer satisfaction and efficiency and provide excellent service to internal and external customers
Experience planning, organizing, and prioritizing multiple assignments concurrently.

You should know

The position’s work mode is remote. Employee is able to work primarily at home or remote however, the employee may be expected to come to an SCE facility on occasion. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to reside in the state of California. Hiring organizations can add further requirements related to specific jobs. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage.
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Testing

This position requires testing and applicants who are identified to continue through the selection process will be invited to test via email. Reference our Information Guides for the following tests: Edison Individual Contributor Workstyles (Test #8203). Candidates who have previously passed these assessment(s), in some cases, may not need to retest again for this position.

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.

At SCE, we celebrate our differences. We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected 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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