Granicus Hiring for Consultant, Communications at Saint Paul, MN  Full Time

Who We Are:

• Digital content creators and strategists, applying best practices to key message development, evaluation of current client content, and identifying optimization opportunities.
• Data-driven thinkers, grounding our insights and recommendations for growth in measurable data and context.
• Human-centered design practitioners, understanding best practices, regardless of technology or use case, and always putting people at the center of our solutions.
• Innovators, leveraging design-thinking and other frameworks to keep our work fresh and help our customers adopt a mindset for change. We drive toward success with a spirit of experimentation and agility.

How We Show Up to Work:

• Demonstrate a polished, professional relationship with colleagues and customers.
• Assume positive intent.
• Be collaborative. Create space for and be open to different expertise and experiences.
• Be dependable and reliable for our customers and our colleagues.
• Be organized and manage your own workload.
• Be proactive. Be willing to jump in, not wait to be told.
• Be willing to try something new, not dependent on documented examples.
• Be empathetic. Consider the human experience, needs and motivations of our customers and our colleagues.
• Be open to feedback. Listen with the same passion with which you want to be heard.
• Be curious. Gather information and knowledge. Consider new ideas and approaches. Consider what you might not know.

What your impact will look like here:

• Deliver complex and comprehensive multichannel digital programs for public sector clients. Execute across Granicus’ evolving suite of digital products, with a heavy focus on delivery across email, social media, SMS, and websites.
• Partners with multi-disciplinary teams to launch and manage multichannel programs focused on audience capture, engagement and nurturing.
• Develop content for clients’ various email, SMS, social media and web-based campaigns, with an eye toward acquisition of new audiences and creating pathways for engagement
• Translate strategy into action through written content, formatting ideas, or A/B testing for email and SMS, or writing posts, developing creative content, brand monitoring, and follower/community management on social media
• Provide expertise as a trusted adviser to clients, coordinate with them to ensure editorial accuracy and standards of quality are met. Closely collaborate with internal team members and contractors.
• Collaborate with internal campaign and design teams, as well as freelance contractors, to create multimedia content for social media platforms, including videos, graphics, and audiograms
• Act as a primary client feedback conduit to GXG leadership and maintain proactive approaches to executing client initiatives, anticipating client needs and keenly guiding decisions based on data and best practices.
• Continuously demonstrate a polished, professional relationship with colleagues and clients by being organized, prepared and proactive. Have an authentic and polished presence at all times.
• Support and consult Federal/State/Local Sales and Customer Success Consultant teams in endeavors to pursue Granicus Experience Group opportunities.
• Occasionally represent the Granicus Experience Group in speaking roles, panel participation, webinars, workshops and client outreach, as well as attend and participate in industry conferences and workshops throughout the U.S. as needed.
• Become an expert on Granicus products and future product development by keeping abreast of new and upcoming enhancements to our platform.

Security Requirement:

• Responsible for Granicus information security by appropriately preserving the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of Granicus information assets in accordance with the company’s information security program.

You will love this job if you have:

• 5+ years of digital consulting or digital program management, preferably in a digital/social media company serving government or at a government agency.
• Be proficient in digital-communications tools, and preferably the Granicus family of products, ranging from email marketing, online collaboration, website content management systems, online forms, and social networks to the next new thing
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills, with a passion for creative content development and delivery in a heavy client-facing capacity
• Strategic creative mind with the ability to exercise independence, autonomy, and sound judgment in making program and content decisions. Skillfully enlist internal stakeholders to help navigate client relationships
• Strong portfolio demonstrating delivery across email, SMS, social and web. Experienced in the best practices of A/B testing, using data to inspire content, and engagement-driving efforts
• Understand and use digital tools, technologies and trends, then leverage those for client success
• Ability to be flexible in a changing work environment and to work well under pressure
• Consistently manage, perform and scope against simultaneous projects in a fast-paced environment
• Experience and/or enthusiasm for working with government. Passionate about public service, citizen engagement and all things digital
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment while demonstrating strong personal initiative and on-time delivery of project tasks and deliverables.
• Maintain awareness and understanding of government news, as well as digital communications and industry developments that apply to the position and responsibilities.
• Be hungry and passionate, have a collaborative spirit and be committed to making a difference with communications and collaboration.
• Prior to the shutdown for the Covid-19 pandemic, GXG staff were expected to be available for on-site customer meetings with our federal, state and local customers. This included travel in some instances. As our customers’ expectations and responses to the pandemic continue to evolve, GXG team members may once again be expected to be available for in-person customer meetings.

The Culture

• At Granicus, we are building a transparent, inclusive, and safe space for everyone who wants to be a part of our journey. A few culture highlights include –
• Employee Resource Groups to encourage diverse voices
• Coffee with Mark sessions – Our employees get to interact with our CEO on very important and sometimes difficult issues ranging from mental health to work life balance and current affairs.
• Microsoft Teams communities focused on wellness, art, furbabies, family, parenting, and more.
• We bring in special guests from time to time to discuss issues that impact our employee population

The Company

• Serving the People Who Serve the People
• Granicus is driven by the excitement of building, implementing, and maintaining technology that is transforming the Govtech industry by bringing governments and its constituents together. We are on a mission to support our customers with meeting the needs of their communities and implementing our technology in ways that are equitable and inclusive. Granicus has consistently appeared on the GovTech 100 list over the past 5 years and has been recognized as the best companies to work on BuiltIn.
• Over the last 25 years, we have served 5,500 federal, state, and local government agencies and more than 300 million citizen subscribers power an unmatched Subscriber Network that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place. With comprehensive cloud-based solutions for communications, government website design, meeting and agenda management software, records management, and digital services, Granicus empowers stronger relationships between government and residents across the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. By simplifying interactions with residents, while disseminating critical information, Granicus brings governments closer to the people they serve-driving meaningful change for communities around the globe.
• Want to know more? See more of what we do .

The Impact

• We are proud to serve dynamic organizations around the globe that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place – quite literally. We have so many powerful success stories that illustrate how our solutions are impacting the world. See more of our impact .

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