Communications Specialist II - Sr

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Work Place Flexibility: Onsite

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC

***This role will be filled in either New Orleans, LA or Jackson, MS***

**This role will be filled as a Communications Specialist II or a Sr Communications Specialist, depending on the candidates qualifications.**

Job Summary/Purpose:

Assists in the management and execution of stakeholder communication and of key messages both inside and outside of Entergy. Support the enterprise in achieving its strategic goals by leveraging employee communications, multimedia communications, creative and humanized storytelling. Ensure alignment amongst operations communications and the overall company. Create goodwill with stakeholders to support Entergy's collective vision, mission, strategy and stakeholder objectives.

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

• Builds and executes a communications strategy designed to inform cross functional staff and internal and external stakeholders. Monitors industry news and identifies emerging issues.
• Supports communication needs for company leadership, including but not limited to: Town Halls, employee meetings, speeches, talking points, internal memos, presentations, employee articles, news releases, website posts, etc. Additionally, prepares weekly e-newsletter for employees.
• Recommends strategies, produces materials and executes communication plans to support and promote company business objectives, organizational priorities and major functional initiatives.
• Implements broad-based employee communications, such as executive messaging and employee meetings and newsletters. Collaborates with company leadership and senior communications staff on the development of key messages, subject matter and copy. Coordinates layout, production and distribution.
• Researches, cultivates knowledge of and utilizes social media to communicate key Entergy messages. Evaluates and recommends usage for optimal positive exposure for the Company.
• Develops response or recommended actions around media inquiries and/or other external communications.
• Assists in establishing editorial or departmental standards. May edit the work of and/or provide guidance and direction to others. May require project management knowledge including business processes such as budgeting, purchasing, request for proposal, etc.
• Work and provide communications support in response to incident response and weather events.

Other Attributes

Functional Knowledge

Requires conceptual and practical expertise in own discipline and basic knowledge of related disciplines.

Business Expertise

Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of peer practices and the factors that differentiate them in the market.

Leadership

Acts as a resource for and adequately supports colleagues; may lead projects with manageable risks and resource requirements.

Professionalism

Maintains integrity and respect for others.

Problem Solving

Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.

Impact

Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams; works within broad guidelines and policies.

Interpersonal Skills

Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus.

Minimum education and experience required:

• Communications Specialist II: Bachelor's Degree in a related field and 2-5 years of experience in communications or public relations is required or equivalent experience.
• Sr. Communications Specialist: Bachelor's Degree in a related field and 5+ years of experience in corporate communications or public relations is required OR in lieu of a bachelor's degree 9+ years of experience in corporate communications or public relations is required or equivalent experience

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required of the position

Strong writing, editing and communications planning skills (AP style knowledge a plus). Demonstrated ability to use or learn an array of publishing software such as Photoshop, InDesign, Office 365, HTML editing software, web analytics, social media platforms and a variety of audio, video and infographic production programs.

Any certificates, licenses, etc. required for the position

None

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Primary Location: Louisiana-New OrleansLouisiana : New Orleans || Mississippi : Jackson

Job Function: Professional

FLSA Status: Professional

Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered

Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT

Number of Openings: 1

Req ID: 114177

Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to view the EEI page, or see statements below.

EEO Statement:The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

Accessibility:Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf.If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please click here and provide your name, contact number, the accommodation requested and the requisition number that you are requesting the accommodation for. Employee Services will contact you regarding your request.

Additional Responsibilities:As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Entergy Pay Transparency Policy Statement:The Entergy System of Companies (the Company) will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c). Equal Opportunity and Pay Transparency .

Pay Transparency Notice:

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The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment. Please [email protected] to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Please note: Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.