🚨 Job Alert: Minnehaha Creek Watershed District Seeks Communications Coordinator 🚨

By The Minneapolis Egotist / June 3, 2022 /

What You Will Be Doing – The Job:
Create Powerful Narratives and Develop Data‐Driven Stories
•Create original written and visual content for all communications channels to increase stakeholder understanding and support of key initiatives and MCWD’s approach.
•Lead work across programs to interpret data and develop data‐driven stories and visuals to make complex data usable, engaging, and accessible.
•Maintain the District’s brand identity by ensuring conformance to the MCWD Brand Manual.
•Develop effective and efficient communications workflows and asset management systems.
•Actively monitor best practices and trends in communications and information design.
•Monitor and analyze media and social media relevant to the District’s geography and key initiatives.

Manage MCWD’s (soon to be updated) Website
•Manage and analyze the District’s website, improving user experience and ensuring accessibility.
•Create and publish written, video, and graphic content via content management system.
•Ensure efficient and secure website operation.

Contribute to Outreach Program’s Planning, Strategy, and Implementation
•Assist in managing, evaluating, and updating the District’s Outreach strategy, workflow, and the design and implementation of engagement and communications plans to support key initiatives.
•Research, implement, and evaluate strategies and tactics for accessible and equitable engagement/communications, including those traditionally left out of government processes.
•Manage administrative aspects of the Outreach Program.

What You Will Bring to MCWD:
•A passion for advancing MCWD’s Balanced Urban Ecology vision of watershed management
•Demonstrated record of turning complex information into compelling stories and leading collaborative creative processes from concept to completion.
•Bachelor’s degree with coursework in design, communications, journalism, geography, environmental studies, or related field (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
•3‐5 years of experience in communications, website management/design, content strategy, journalism, sustainability, data visualization, or related discipline
•Strong and engaging verbal, visual, and written communication skills, including ability to flex communication style to multiple cultural environments (ability to speak a second language a plus)
•General knowledge of design/desktop publishing programs, website management, content management systems, editorial process, photo/video, social media, science/climate/policy communications
•An ability to spot relevant patterns and issues, and forge new alternative ways forward
•The capacity to track, digest, and manage detail while maintaining a strategic perspective
•A drive to stretch, learn, and grow in a high performing environment
•Flexible thinking, adaptability, and a desire to actively manage change
•A propensity for interpersonal communications, and the ability to build consensus
•A drive to build lasting relationships across a diverse set of stakeholders

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