Content Coordinator, Strategic Communications

This is a great opportunity to join a comprehensive communications team, build skills and make meaningful contributions. Additionally, you can feel good about supporting a trade association whose members have long been responsible stewards of our planet’s resources.

Reporting to the VP, Strategic Communications, your essential job functions will be split across digital and owned content, strategic communications, and administrative duties. You will be responsible for a variety of work, including contributing to the Communications plan by conducting essential research and outreach, maintaining department reports, creating presentations, drafting and posting content, and helping to keep the team coordinated and organized.

Location:

This is a hybrid position with in-office and remote work. The selected person will be expected to regularly work two days in the DC office at 11th and K Street, NW. In-office workdays may increase based on business needs. Please note that our office will be moving in November to the corner of 13^th and G Street, NW (below Metro Center)

Working at AF&PA:

The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) values diverse backgrounds and capabilities and invites all talented individuals to apply to be part of our team and support our culture and mission. We encourage the exchange of knowledge, innovative ideas and different perspectives to reach our goals and we support work/life balance. We offer a generous benefits package that includes:

• Paid Vacation, Personal and Sick leave totaling 27-42 days per year, plus holidays
• 100%-85% paid CareFirst medical plans for employees (multiple options)
• Generous 401(k) retirement plan with up to 9% employer contribution
• Free access to new 7,000 sqft fitness center with Pelotons, Mirror Fitness, and more
• Plus dental, vision, life insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Account...

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Digital and Owned Content

• Contributes to overall owned and digital media strategy execution including writing blog posts, crafting engaging social media content (differentiated by platform) and posting various content to afandpa.org
• Create digital assets using tools like Canva and Adobe Creative Suite
• Assists in story gathering, drafting and distribution of AF&PA member e-newsletter on bi-weekly basis
• Monitors member social channels

Strategic Communications

• Assists in the creation of presentations and speeches to support AF&PA staff speaking engagements
• Develops competency with Sprout Social, LeadLander, Cision and other online research and monitoring tools
• Conducts earned and digital media influencer research to identify opportunities for engagement both on and off-line

Administrative and Additional Duties

• Maintains Communications planning and archiving as directed, including maintaining department calendar, cataloguing speaking engagements and presentations made by AF&PA staff, and managing distribution lists in email and membership database.
• Supports office management and organization; maintaining supply closet; liaising with vendors; and producing communications team reports on a monthly, quarterly, and cumulative basis
• Maintains excellent communication with the team and other departments across the association
• Other duties, including event support and internal communications, assigned as needed

QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE:

• BA or BS in related field, preferably communications or public relations
• Two or more years of experience working in an office environment, preferable in a communications or administrative related role
• Strong written communication skills
• Ability to work on multiple tasks with high attention to detail
• Maintains positive rapport with co-workers
• Exercises judgment, direction and personal initiative in times of limited supervision
• High-level computer knowledge/skills preferred (Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Internet, etc.)
• Grasps new tasks and issues quickly

About AF&PA:

AF&PA serves to advance U.S. paper and wood products manufacturers through fact-based public policy and marketplace advocacy. The forest products industry is circular by nature. AF&PA member companies make essential products from renewable and recycle resources, generate renewable bioenergy and are committed to continuous improvement through the industry’s sustainability initiative — Better Practices, Better Planet 2030: Sustainable Products for a Sustainable Future. The forest products industry accounts for approximately 5% percent of the total U.S. manufacturing GDP, manufactures nearly $350 billion in products annually and employs approximately 925,000 people. The industry meets a payroll of approximately $65 billion annually and is among the top 10 manufacturing sector employers in 43 states.