Senior Communications Strategist
About the role
As a strategic communications partner, you will help translate business priorities into outcome-focused, audience-centered strategies and compelling content. You will work with business partners to understand objectives, identify stakeholder needs, and develop communication plans. This role leads the planning and development of corporate communications, thought leadership, and customer communications.
Responsibilities
- Write and edit high-quality communications including talking points, employee communications, customer communications, thought leadership, articles, presentations, press releases, and other strategic content.
- Lead discovery conversations with stakeholders to identify communication needs, clarify objectives, uncover key messages, and define success measures.
- Conduct editorial review and quality assurance for strategic communications and marketing assets, ensuring consistency in brand voice, messaging, grammar, style, formatting, factual accuracy, and compliance across all channels.
- Partner with leaders across the organization to understand business objectives and recommend communication strategies that support desired outcomes.
- Leverage AI-powered tools to enhance research, content development, editing, message refinement, and communication planning while applying sound judgment, maintaining brand voice, and ensuring accuracy, originality, and compliance.
- Develop comprehensive communication plans that identify audiences, messaging priorities, communication channels, timing, and sequencing.
- Serve as the communications representative on cross-functional project teams, ensuring communication considerations are integrated throughout project planning and execution.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, English, Public Relations, Marketing, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 3+ years of professional experience in corporate communications, public relations, journalism, content strategy, or a related communications field.
- Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills across multiple communication formats.
- Demonstrated experience partnering with business leaders to develop communication strategies.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex communication projects involving multiple stakeholders, including executive and senior leaders.
- Strong interviewing skills with the ability to draw out information and ask insightful questions.
- Experience developing communication plans for multiple audiences.
- Strong understanding of brand voice, messaging frameworks, and editorial standards.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and familiarity with AI-assisted writing and content development tools.
Benefits
- An excellent schedule – office closes at 1 p.m. every Friday.
- Annual profit sharing.
- 401(k) with company match and discretionary contribution.
- Company-sponsored group medical and dental insurance.
- Company-paid life insurance.
- Company-paid long-term disability.
- Hybrid work environment.
- Paid holidays.
- Generous vacation time and sick leave.
- Paid parental leave.
- Casual dress year-round.
- Professional membership and licensing dues reimbursement.
- Tuition reimbursement.
About Homesteaders
Homesteaders Life Company, a mutual company owned by its policyholders, is a national leader providing products and services to help people design a better farewell. Founded in 1906, Homesteaders is known for secure preneed funding and innovative solutions that help funeral and end-of-life professionals and consumers connect with each other. We are currently hiring in AL, FL, GA, IA, IN, KS, LA, MI, MS, MT, NC, NE, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, and WV.
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.