Public Relations Officer - Fitzii - Oakland, CA

Public Relations Officer - Fitzii - Oakland, CA -

Useful State Basis

Oakland, CA

APPLICANTS MUST SUBMIT A COVER LETTER, RESUME, AND WRITING SAMPLE IN ORDER TO BE CONSIDERED.

Organizational Description:
Useful State Basis is a singular basis whose mission is to create, information, and promote a brand new, useful banking mannequin that transforms the banking business.

Somewhat than grant making, we’re the first proprietor of two triple-backside-line banks – Useful State Financial institution and Albina Group Financial institution – and our work is to assist outline, drive, measure, and strengthen the social and environmental work of the banks. We play a key position in connecting nonprofits, social-influence companies, different foundations, and the bank with a purpose to fund and help community- and environmentally-targeted tasks and packages.

Past our personal banks, the inspiration can also be serving to to construct a motion towards a monetary system that nourishes somewhat than extracts from communities. We search to vary the banking system for good.

Place Overview:
Useful State Basis seeks to rent a Public Relations Officer to play a twin perform: (1) be the connector position in Oakland/Bay Space and (2) assist handle media relations on behalf of the group.

The candidate must be fluent in English and Spanish. The place requires using initiative, creativity, and diplomacy in efforts to satisfy the inspiration’s mission, together with the continued enlargement of the bank’s identify recognition in our three-state market and past. The person ought to be capable of keep confidentiality and work effectively with stakeholders from very numerous backgrounds.

This individual will assist to garner media consideration by carrying the voice of Useful State, positioning us as a brand new, distinctive bank mannequin that strives to “profit all, and hurt none” by way of mission-pushed and influence-targeted banking.

Reporting to the inspiration’s Deputy Director in Oakland relating to group engagement efforts, and to the inspiration’s Strategic Communications Director for media-related work, this individual may even work intently with the Oakland loans and deposits workforce and the bank’s marketing division. The job might embrace working with and supervising volunteers, interns, collaborators and consultants to assist obtain the objectives of the inspiration. The place requires a average quantity of touring and participation in night and weekend occasions.

Obligations:
Media Relations

1. Assist coordinate all media actions and handle incoming and outgoing requests. Set up a sustainable, strategic strategy to media relations with the objectives of supporting business consciousness and positioning Useful State as a progressive thought chief in our business. Keep a eager understanding of business developments affecting shoppers and friends and make applicable suggestions relating to communications technique. Assist to simplify, make clear, and enhance Useful State’s inner and exterior dealing with communications.

Actively attain out to media retailers with newsworthy tales and commentary on present affairs.

Construct and keep relationships with journalists, bloggers, influencers, thought leaders, and different media contacts to put tales about firm information and different initiatives.

Put together weekly briefing for management on related trending media points.

Monitor media inquiries and interview requests.

Leverage present media relationships and domesticate new contacts with business media.

Guarantee media relations contact listing is all the time up-to-date.

Comply with up with all reporters (together with making corrections or clarifications to garnered press when vital).

Create and keep a repository of Useful State press and media, monitoring media mentions.

Make full use of Meltwater platform performance.

2. Draft and edit content material, typically on behalf of Useful State management.

Search, monitor, and consider op-ed alternatives.

Collaborate on crafting and pitching press releases and thought management columns.

Keep and create content material for weblog, in coordination with basis communications workforce.

Share info and develop content material for social media at the side of basis communications staff.

three. Characterize the group at public occasions, and consider and pursue talking engagement alternatives, business occasions, and awards, in coordination with bank marketing and basis communications group.

Group Engagement

1. Strategically outreach to nonprofits, social impression companies, and foundations in Oakland and the Bay Space and join them to the bank with the aim of accelerating Useful State’s understanding of the group’s wants, its influence locally, and its mission-aligned deposits and lending. Proceed to increase the native consciousness and profile of the bank with mission-aligned entities by persevering with and cultivating strategic contacts and relationships.

Analysis, advocate, and implement strategic alliances with companies, monetary establishments, nonprofit organizations, foundations, and associations.

Take part individually and along side mortgage and deposit employees in networking occasions, fundraisers, instructional occasions and appointments as needed inside focused sectors.

2. Develop and handle group occasions, boards, and strategic conferences as wanted in help of our mission and goal sectors

Discover and safe venues.

Handle budgets inside given parameters.

Coordinate marketing channels, supplies, invites and RSVP monitoring.

Coordinate and talk with aligned associations and teams, various funders, B Corps, and others.

three. Attend common group occasions to symbolize the bank and basis.

four. Help marketing efforts of basis and bank.

Coordinate with marketing workforce in implementation of marketing plans/actions.

Advocate native and regional avenues for marketing.

Advocate and ahead subjects to marketing staff for social media outreach.

Create and distribute Useful State Ambassador communications.

Different Duties and Duties

Collaborate on and help with tasks and occasions led by different basis or bank employees.

Anticipate and help in resolving conditions with out steady supervision.

Different duties as assigned.

You’re:
A social justice advocate dedicated to advancing a progressive agenda

An skilled communications skilled with robust writing and proofreading expertise

Politically savvy; you perceive what makes an merchandise newsworthy and have your finger on the heart beat of present occasions

Outgoing; a pure connector who communicates with confidence, tact, and diplomacy

Snug speaking to the media and outfitted with an understanding of what makes a very good story

Extraordinarily conscious of requests with wonderful consideration to element and accuracy; capable of deal with a number of tasks underneath strain and meet deadlines

Capable of cooperatively construction and independently execute work-plans for numerous tasks

A strategic thinker who tends to see the large image

An unbiased, proactive go-getter who’s enthusiastic about connecting individuals to one another and to assets

Snug working in an entrepreneurial setting and capable of adapt shortly to a constantly evolving group

Humble and luxuriate in supporting and celebrating the success of colleagues

Necessities:
BA/MA diploma in Enterprise Administration, Public Coverage, Communications, Advertising or a associated self-discipline

three-5 years minimal skilled expertise in politics, social impression, or nonprofit sector

Demonstrated capability to conceptualize and develop new packages and initiatives

Confirmed relationship constructing and networking expertise

Confirmed monitor report designing and executing profitable (public) media relations campaigns at each an area and multi-state degree

Distinctive writing, modifying, and proofreading expertise.

Strong expertise with digital and social media together with blogs, Fb, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so on.

Strong pc expertise together with Microsoft Phrase, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint

Information of banking or finance is most popular

Familiarity with Salesforce a plus

Proficiency in Spanish required

Compensation: Wage commensurate with expertise and providing wonderful advantages together with well being, dental, imaginative and prescient, 401okay and extra.

Useful State Basis supplies equal employment alternatives to all staff and candidates in all firm amenities with out regard to race, colour, spiritual creed, intercourse, nationwide origin, ancestry, citizenship standing, being pregnant, childbirth, bodily incapacity, psychological and/or mental incapacity, age, army standing or standing as a Vietnam-period or particular disabled veteran, marital standing, registered home companion or civil union standing, gender (together with intercourse stereotyping and gender id or expression), medical situation (together with, however not restricted to, most cancers associated or HIV/AIDS associated), genetic info, or sexual orientation in accordance with relevant federal, state and native legal guidelines.

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