Social Media and Communications Lead

Join us in this role where you’ll play a pivotal role in managing Ørsted Region Americas’ social media channels, further developing our strategy to enhance the region’s online presence and brand awareness, and effectively communicate our priorities, initiatives, and values to a diverse audience as we continue to expand and deliver more clean, American-made energy.

Welcome to Corporate Affairs
You’ll be part of Communications and Public Affairs where you, together with your colleagues, will develop and lead implementation of a comprehensive social media strategy to enhance Ørsted’s reputation, brand awareness, and engagement. As a team, we focus on collaboration across all of Corporate Affairs, different business units, and external partners to achieve our collective goals.

You’ll play an important role in:

• developing and implementing a comprehensive social media strategy to enhance Ørsted’s reputations, brand awareness, and engagement.
• creating, curating, and managing published content for corporate and executive social media channels, including LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagaram and Facebook.
• overseeing external agency resources and internal team members to deliver frequent and engaging socail media content, as well as manage incident response and monitoring as needed.
• researching social trends and monitoring social media metrics to gauge success of social media content and adjust strategies for improved reach and engagement.
• developing and implementing an employee social media branding standard, and contributing to the communications and public speaking enegagements workstream as the social media lead

To succeed in the role, you:

• should have a Bachelor’s degree with a preferred focus in communications, political science, or government and have 3-years of experience in corporate, nonprofit, political, and/or government settings.
• must demonstrate proficiency thorugh experience managing social media accounts for a business, government official or entity, or non-governmental organization.
• have excellent written and verbal communiation skills with an eye for detail.
• should have have experience working across multiple teams and bringing together varyious sources of information to develop a messaging strategy.
• should have a creative mindset with the ability to generate and implement innovative ideas and concepts for social media campaigns.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Join a global leader in renewable energy
Ørsted is a growing green energy major and global leader in climate action. With us you’ll play a part in driving change towards a green energy future. You’ll grow your talent in a fast-paced and high-growth industry where you have plenty of opportunities to learn and develop through challenging assignments and industry-leading experts. Here, you can perform in a friendly work environment based on trust, respect, and collaboration.

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via [email protected].

Please note that you’re expected to do some travelling in relation to your work, as you’ll travel for internal meetings and external conferences.

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.

About the job
Application deadline:
13 January 2024

Location:
Washington DC, US

Field of work:
Marketing, branding and communications

Employment type:
Permanent

Work hours:
Full-time

Workplace:
Hybrid (office and home-working)

Imagine a future with Ørsted

About Ørsted
- We develop, construct, and operate offshore and onshore wind farms, solar energy farms, storage facilities, and bioenergy plants in Europe, Asia, and North America.

- Our vision is to create a world that runs entirely on green energy.

- We’ve been ranked as one of the world’s most sustainable energy companies for the past six years.

- We’re headquartered in Denmark.

- We have over 8,600 employees, working in 15 countries and growing.

An inclusive team
Ørsted wants all employees to have the same opportunities for impact and growth, regardless of age, nationality, disability, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or beliefs. We’re committed to secure an inclusive work environment characterised by a respect for all people so everyone feels free to openly share their input and ideas.

Nearest Major Market: Washington DC