Senior Communications Specialist

About the role

Our client is seeking a Senior Learning Communications Strategist for a long-term contract engagement supporting enterprise learning, compliance, risk, and ethics initiatives. This individual will partner with an established learning team to execute communication strategies, campaigns, events, and engagement programs that increase awareness and drive employee action.

The ideal candidate is a seasoned communications professional with exceptional copywriting and storytelling skills who can translate complex topics into clear, engaging content for a broad employee audience. This role requires strong collaboration, creative thinking, stakeholder management, and the ability to manage multiple high-priority projects in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Execute communication and engagement strategies that support learning, compliance, risk, and ethics initiatives.
• Develop compelling content for multiple channels, including email campaigns, internal communications platforms, articles, training launches, events, activations, and resource materials.
• Translate complex legal, regulatory, compliance, and business topics into clear, accessible messaging for non-technical audiences.
• Write, edit, proofread, and refine content to ensure accuracy, consistency, and quality.
• Partner with learning teams, subject matter experts, stakeholders, and creative partners to develop effective communications and campaigns.
• Adapt messaging, tone, and style to meet the needs of diverse audiences and communication objectives.
• Support employee engagement initiatives through marketing campaigns, awareness programs, events, and experiential activations.
• Collaborate with designers and creative teams to develop integrated communication deliverables.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines and maintaining high-quality standards.
• Support measurement and reporting efforts by incorporating performance insights into future communications.
• Maintain project timelines, updates, and progress tracking while proactively identifying and escalating risks or roadblocks.
• Contribute to communication standards, best practices, and consistency across channels.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience supporting enterprise-wide internal communications, engagement campaigns, or learning initiatives.
• Extensive experience developing and executing large-scale communication programs for broad employee audiences.
• Strong copywriting, editing, proofreading, and content strategy experience.
• Demonstrated ability to create content that influences awareness, understanding, and behavior change.
• Experience partnering directly with senior leaders, stakeholders, and subject matter experts.
• Ability to translate complex concepts into clear, compelling, audience-focused communications.
• Strong project management, organizational, and prioritization skills.
• Ability to work independently while aligning with established team strategies and priorities.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Experience managing multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Communications, Marketing, Journalism, English, Education, Learning Science, Legal Studies, Compliance, or a related field.
• Experience supporting compliance, risk, ethics, regulatory, or corporate learning programs.
• Knowledge of content strategy, employee engagement, and digital communications best practices.
• Experience supporting campaigns, events, activations, and awareness initiatives.
• Experience working within highly regulated environments.
• Familiarity with communication performance measurement and analytics.
• Experience supporting multimedia content, including video, podcasts, interactive communications, or other digital learning formats.
• Experience creating content across multiple learning and communication modalities.