Communications Specialist

About the role

GGRC is looking to hire a Communications Specialist for our San Francisco Office, also open to our offices in San Mateo, and San Rafael, CA. The Communications Specialist for GGRC serves as a go-to resource for quality, accessibility, and inclusive communications across all of GGRC’s internal and external channels. This role supports the implementation of communications strategies, manages workflows, and helps build and maintain the internal systems and practices that enable effective communication across the organization. Working in partnership with GGRC leadership and program teams, the Communications Specialist focuses on project management, coordination, and execution of communications across departments. The role ensures that communications are clear, consistent, timely, and aligned, while keeping complex, multi-stakeholder projects on track. At the center of this role is a commitment to accessible, inclusive, person-centered and disability-forward communication. The Communications Specialist helps ensure that all communications reflect dignity, clarity, and respect, and that accessibility is embedded as a standard across all of GGRC internal and external channels. This position will require local travel within the Counties of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin. Periodic travel to Sacramento and throughout the state. Access to reliable transportation permitting travel to and between many different locations throughout the day to perform the outlined responsibilities of the position.

Responsibilities

• Implement communications strategies and tactics aligned with GGRC’s mission and priorities
• Maintain communication planning tools, calendars, and coordination systems
• Coordinate editorial calendars, cross-team content workflows, and messaging across teams to ensure consistency and alignment
• Track deliverables, timelines, and dependencies across multiple projects
• Ensure that requests that come through the website contact and elsewhere are routed to the appropriate department
• Serve as a quality control lead across all communications, ensuring clarity, consistency, and alignment with established standards
• Ensure all communications meet accessibility and inclusion standards (plain language, ADA