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Senior Communications Specialist

Workhuman

Workhuman

Marketing & Communications
Framingham, MA, USA
Posted on Thursday, March 21, 2024

Job Description:

The Opportunity

Workhuman is looking for a dynamic and motivated individual to join our Corporate Communications team. This position offers an exciting opportunity for an early-career professional to advance their career in the fast-paced and ever-evolving field of corporate communications, with a focus on the audience of employees.

Reporting to the Manager, Global Internal Communications, the Internal Communications Senior Specialist supports the strategy, design, development, and management of Workhuman’s global internal communications activities, reaching over 1000 employees across two continents.

Please note - this is a hybrid role requiring 2 days a week onsite in our BRAND NEW Framingham, MA headquarters.

What we can offer you:

  • An ability to have an immediate impact on the internal communications strategy and outcomes associated with the work

  • An opportunity to own the editorial calendar and create engaging written and visual material in support of a variety of company and department-initiated initiatives for core internal communication channels, which include but are not limited to Digital Signage, Emails, Slack/Teams chats, newsletters, Intranet posts

  • Collaboration with senior leadership to align communication strategies with business objectives.

  • The opportunity to work within a corporate communications function that oversees the authority and reputation of the brand and impact those strategic objectives and learn from skilled communicators with diverse backgrounds and experiences

  • Serve as a known and trusted business partner, creating and executing communication plans for company and program-specific campaigns.

  • The possibility to create the cadence of reporting and measurement of channels and generate dashboards and report out successes and lessons learned

The Skills you will bring:

  • Experience with internal communications strategies and tactics

  • An exceptional communicator and writer who is highly organized, agile, and capable of managing a large volume of competing priorities and demands in a fast-paced environment

  • A deep understanding of the power of storytelling and effective communication

  • A confident presenter, comfortable with leading discussions across all levels of a matrixed organization

  • A proactive mindset, and an eagerness to learn

  • Knowledge and experience creating a variety of messages for different mediums and channels, both in visual and written forms

Achievements:

  • You have analyzed data and provided feedback to continuously improve communication strategies and methods, and Established feedback mechanisms to gauge the effectiveness of internal communications.

  • You love staying current on trends in employee experience and internal communications and improving systems that help Internal Comms continue to scale its support at this fast-paced company

  • You have shown that you could embrace and enhance brand and editorial guidelines for internal content created across channels

  • You have been involved in a project that delivered worked closely with cross-functional teams, including marketing, sales, executive communications, external communications, and product, to ensure cohesive messaging.

The Company:

At Workhuman® our mission is to bring more humanity to the workplace. We recognise and embrace individuals’ differences and believe that workforce diversity and inclusion are essential to our long-term growth and success. Even if you don’t think you “check every single box” above, please still consider applying. We’re looking for a human who is collaborative, and innovative with a growth mindset. We love what we do because we’re shaping the future of work through our people and our technology. Our human cloud-based applications are helping some of the world’s leading global brands connect culture to shared purpose. The Workhuman Cloud empowers employees to thank, talk and celebrate each other, creating an environment that sparks gratitude and human connection while increasing employee engagement and productivity.

Did you know we have an award-winning culture across EMEA and North America:

  • We were named as #5 Best Workplace in the Great Place to Work Awards in Ireland in 2022 in the large sized workplace category. We were also recognised as a Best Workplace for Women and a Best Workplace in Technology in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

  • In 2021 we were named as #2 Best Workplace in Europe in the medium sized workplace category.

  • We were also recognised as #2 Best Large Places to Work in Boston by Built In for 2023 as well as a Best Place to Work in Boston, U.S. Best Large Places to Work and U.S. Best Places to Work.

  • There are currently over 7.5 million users on the Workhuman® cloud across 180 countries.

  • Our core values are Respect, Determination, Innovation and Imagination.

Workhuman is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees. We proudly provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions at Workhuman are based on solely on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Workhuman believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.