Digital Communications Specialist - Corgan

Overview

At Corgan we are passionate about great design but the best thing we build is each other. Here, you’ll find camaraderie and collaboration as abundantly as curiosity and creativity. Corgan is a welcoming and supportive environment that provides significant career advantages. You’ll find room to grow, freedom to explore — and the safety to fail. Thank you for your interest in joining our curious, passionate, hardworking team.

Corgan is actively recruiting a dynamic Digital Communications Specialist

to join the firm as part of our Marketing Shared Services sector. Tackle these responsibilities alongside a team of creative, highly motivated individuals who are passionate about their work and ready to collaborate to achieve outstanding results. Our ideal team member is passionate and progressively seeking more responsibilities to expand their expertise.

Responsibilities

• Working with the communications team, develop and implement social media strategies to increase brand awareness by showcasing our projects, highlighting our design philosophy, and engaging our clients and stakeholders.
• Oversee social media presence, including content creation, posting schedules, and engagement strategies on platforms like LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.
• Manage a content calendar to ensure the timely production and distribution of content across owned channels.
• Monitor social media channels and respond to comments and messages.
• Analyze social media data to track performance and optimize strategies.
• Assist with implementation of Employee Advocacy via social media tool.
• Act as primary point of contact to third-party website developer and spearhead website changes under the direction of Communications Director.
• Run data and analytics on website and provide actionable insights.
• Update website content including insights, digital newsroom, and awards on a weekly basis.

• Serve as the firm expert on digital platform best practices, emerging tools and trends, algorithms, etc. and champion excitement and participation across the firm.

• Organize digital communication assets and manage toolkit for the firm including partnership with graphics and multimedia team (MediaLab).

• Work closely with in-house graphics and multimedia teams to forecast and create compelling content that reflects the firm expertise and differentiates the brand’s thought leadership from competitors in both appearance and functionality.
• Monitor trends, research competitors, and share insights from industry communications and marketing strategies.
• Track performance and analyze metrics of strategies and content and provide ongoing feedback and recommendation to improve and elevate our approach.

Qualifications

• A degree in journalism, communications, or related field is beneficial.
• Minimum of four-to-eight years of experience supporting and growing communications function via digital media is required.
• Agency experience is also beneficial.
• Strong writing skills with the ability to translate communication/PR materials for digital audiences.
• Ability to work independently and proactively with good intuition.
• Deadline driven and a commitment to clear, tangible deliverables. 
• Ability to juggle multiple projects and fluidly prioritize workload.
• Entrepreneurial in spirit and opportunistic about communication tactics and strategies.
• Avid user of diverse digital platforms including social media and web.
• Experience managing and building an editorial calendar.
• Familiarity with digital marketing tools including SproutSocial, LinkedIn, etc.
• PR software monitoring and analytics software experience preferred.
• Experience with Drupal and basic HTML knowledge is beneficial and preferred.
• Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Adobe Illustrator and experience in video editing, graphic design and content creation is a plus.