Senior Communications Specialist

Company Description

Working at Allegis Global Solutions (AGS) is more than just a job. It’s a career. It’s a community of people who invest in your development and empower you to blaze your own trail. Each of us is here to create real, measurable impact that moves needles. We operate beyond "roles" or "jobs" to realize the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to a bigger idea. Because we believe that when you build a workforce that’s designed to harness human enterprise, you design a workforce that’s built for impact.

At AGS, we help companies all over the world transform their people into a competitive advantage. It’s not about filling seats. It’s about designing workforces to meet missions and unleash the most transformative power in business today: The power of human enterprise.

With services around the globe, we have a point of view on the future of work that enables us to be a transformative partner in the way work gets done for our clients’ organizations. Meeting clients where they are, we design a plan and guide them along a transformational journey, applying bold actions and diverse minds to solve the most complex challenges – from permanent and extended workforce management to services procurement, consulting, direct sourcing and our Universal Workforce Model™.

We also represent over 100 countries and speak dozens of languages. So as you’re building relationships and doing your job, you’ll be exposed to other cultures and advancement opportunities while expanding your knowledge of global markets and strategies.

Job Description

The Sr. Communication Specialist, Global helps employees understand company strategy, goals and objectives through the effective creation of communication collateral, management of key communication vehicles and support of the organization’s global communication campaigns and events. As a member of the Internal Communications team, the Sr. Communication Specialist, Global will provide support to the Global Director, Communication to provide support for executive stakeholders while also executing organizational, regional and functional strategic communication agendas.

Responsibilities:

• Support the Global Director, Communication to partner with executive stakeholders, acting as an advisor to create, execute and manage global communication strategies, messages and planning that drive the organizational charter highlighting the risks and benefits associated with proposed strategies and tactical responses.
• Plan and execute communication strategies for global organizational changes and updates, crisis communication, technology/people strategy and events including
• Provide support to the Global Director, Communication for all internal, globally related event planning activities inclusive of the company’s annual Global Summit as well as global leadership meetings, executive staff calls and follow up.

• Gather and summarize employee feedback on communication effectiveness after key communication events and share with executive stakeholders as appropriate.
• Own the process for design and development of communication collateral for executive leadership campaigns including presentations, talking points, emails and videos.
• Build relationships with internal leaders and team members and serve as a point of contact in the absence of the Global Director, Communication for tactical support.

Qualifications

• A university graduate with related work experience (communication, strategy, writing, journalism preferred)
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, including the ability to work effectively in a team environment, handle internal stakeholders with tact and diplomacy, and maintain composure and production quality under deadline pressure
• Experience partnering on communication initiatives with senior level executives
• Excellent writing, editing and proof-reading skills
• Technology savvy with proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially PowerPoint. Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (esp. InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator) is a bonus.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to understand complex business information and effectively communicate key messages to and on behalf of all levels of business management and staff; Understand effective messaging to an audience
• Ability to think strategically and execute tactically
• Comfortable in fast-paced environment that values creativity, self-motivation, candour, initiative, reliability and accountability

Additional Information

As a workplace, we focus on relationships – with each other, our clients and our candidates - in fact serving others is one of our core values. We support open communication and recognize that giving constructive criticism can be even harder than receiving it. We appreciate the fearless and the passionate, who force us to be better. Everything we do sits on a pillar of diversity - diverse perspectives, backgrounds and ideas drive innovation and make us successful.

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