Employment Opportunity - Communications Director

Full-Time Employment Opening

Communications Director

The City of Rehoboth Beach is currently seeking a Communications Director. Duties and responsibilities below:

• Develop and ensure the success of a city-wide strategic communications plan that communicates to employees, residents, businesses, and regional partners.
• Advise and coordinate with staff in departments on strategic communications issues, including ways the City can be positively positioned and portrayed in the news media, social media, the community, other government agencies, and City partners.
• Develop and deliver the City's message through social media. This includes monitoring and posting to the City's Facebook page and Twitter account
• Convey complex issues, events, and concepts in succinct, easy-to-understand language, both in writing and orally.
• Develop and coordinate internal and external communications strategies by working with the Office of the Mayor and City Manager, the City's team of department Directors, and the Police Department.
• Thorough knowledge of effective media, public relations, and communications.
• Advanced knowledge of all aspects of external communications, including — but not limited to — traditional and social (Facebook, Twitter) media, direct mail, online communications, conferences, press, and events.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills, including the capacity to communicate complex ideas compellingly to a variety of audiences.
• Work with elected officials and staff at all levels to execute organization-wide communication strategies.

Application and description are available on the City of Rehoboth Beach website on the employment page, www.cityofrehoboth.com/government/employment-opportunities

Successful candidates are subject to background and drug screening.