What are the responsibilities and job description for the Communications Specialist position at covchurch?
Job Description:
Summary
The Communications Specialist creates content to further the Marcom’s mission to foster missional engagement by building and holding the Covenant’s shared story. This person is an innovative storyteller, showing a wide-ranging curiosity for listening to and telling Covenant stories. The Communications Specialist writes in a range of mediums and collaborates with the editorial team to communicate clearly, correctly, concisely, and completely.
This position contributes to the overall marketing and communication objectives of our Marcom team in aiding coordination and collaboration across all mission areas to inspire and inform local churches and regional conferences.
Essential Functions
- Engage in a professional, hospitable, and courteous manner with the ministry’s constituents.
- Writes articles and stories, highlighting mission and ministry of churches or individuals throughout the Covenant.
- Reports on stories and activities throughout the Covenant, including ECC Events.
- Coordinates with conference offices and key constituency groups to promote and share regional Covenant stories, developments and events in cooperation with conference staff and ministry partners.
- Contributes to mission areas’ communication and marketing efforts by researching, interviewing, and writing content as assigned.
- Verifies facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources.
- Works with digital team to share content on social media platforms.
- Track and communicate story developments with constituents to foster and facilitate engagement.
- Demonstrate high journalistic and ethical standards, offering fair, objective, and balanced perspectives, accurate and complete content, and respecting the proprieties of copyrights and permissions as well as the rules governing plagiarism and attribution.
- Ensures grammatical accuracy and consistency in style and tone in all communications, this to include copy development, editing and proofreading.
- Aids in securing images to expand the readers’ experience through photography or curation.
- Other duties as assigned by Director of Content and Editorial Services, and/or Executive Director of Marketing and Communications.