Internal Communications Strategist
Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund - Oak Brook, IL![Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund](/api/image?src=https%3A%2F%2Fgeneral-board-default.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdesk-360x180.webp&w=640&q=75&f=webp)
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INTRODUCTION
The Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) provides death, disability, and pension retirement benefits to employees of local governments and school districts in Illinois (with the exception of the City of Chicago and Cook County). We are the second largest-and best funded-statewide public pension system in Illinois, IMRF serves approximately 3,000 municipal employers in the State. We are an award-winning organization, located in Oak Brook. IMRF is looking for top talent, for a direct hire opportunity that is benefit eligible. If you are passionate about Communications and meet the requirements, we want to hear from you.
Summary
Responsible for informing, engaging, and inspiring staff through effective, strategic internal communication. Develop effective internal communications strategies that advance business priorities and culture initiatives, and then execute them. Provide strategic communication counsel to business leaders, including the Executive Director. Communications channels include the staff intranet, staff e-newsletter, organization-wide emails, video featuring business leaders, employee events, and more.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Strategic Responsibilities
• Responsible for improving and executing IMRF's Internal Communications Strategy.
• Develop communication plans aligned with organizational goals, measure the impact, articulate the results, and implement improvements.
• Offer guidance and support to leaders for communicating with their teams and the organization at large, including working directly with the Executive Director.
• Offer guidance and support to Human Resources for sharing information about policies, staff benefits, compensation, change management, training, and other initiatives.
• Offer guidance and support for sharing information related to technology modernization initiatives.
Tactical Duties
• Design, write, and deliver organization-wide communications.
• Use a variety of delivery methods, including but not limited to the staff intranet, staff e-newsletter, single-topic emails, video, management talking points, employee events, and more.
• Write organization-wide emails on behalf of executives.
• Script and produce organization-wide videos, including those that feature the Executive Director.
• Take pictures at all-staff events, and departmental events on request.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to develop Resolutions of Appreciation for retiring staff.
• Assist with the ongoing maintenance and improvement of the staff intranet.
• Ensure all employee-focused communications comply with the IMRF Brand Standards and the IMRF Style Guide.
• Backup other Communications Department members as needed.
• Other duties as assigned
Supervisory Responsibilities
This job has no supervisory responsibilities
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Desired Experience and Skills
• A Bachelor's Degree is required. A degree in communications, marketing, journalism, or a related field is preferred.
• Must have at least 3 years internal communications experience.
• Must have experience both executing communications tasks and developing communications strategies.
• Must have experience working directly with executives on internal communications.
• Must have exceptional writing and editing skills.
• Must have experience using email-marketing tools.
• Must have knowledge of the suite of Adobe Creative Cloud applications (IMRF works in a PC-based environment).
Must have basic photography and video-editing skills.
• Must possess the ability to thrive in an environment that demands collaboration with internal customers.
• Must be a self-starter able to work independently with minimal guidance.
• Must be deadline driven.
• Must be a multi-tasker.
• Must have a valid driver's license.
IMRF Benefits:
• Generous insurance benefits, including medical and dental
• 35-hour base work week, Monday - Friday
• Death, disability, and pension retirement benefits as a member of IMRF
• Paid vacation, 12-13 paid holidays and 2 personal days
• Business casual attire
• Award-winning organizational approach to performance excellence