Communications Specialist in Bloomington, Illinois

Description:

Project and Communications Specialist – IT – Digital Marketing and Analytics

Experince Level – prefer former employee or consultant of this insurance client.

First-shift, U.S. Central Time Responsibilities: Client is seeking an experienced, professional project and communications lead to partner and collaborate with team management to lead the team’s project work, accountability reporting, communications, and delivery. In close collaboration with the team manager, the project and communications lead will serve as the team’s project lead for planning, accountability reporting, communications, and delivery.

Specific responsibilities will include the following: • In close collaboration with and at the direction of management, facilitate and lead assigned project work for the team. • For assigned projects, facilitate team working sessions to plan, breakdown and assign work, size, estimate, road map delivery, and develop and implement effective stakeholder communications. • Create and maintain project artifacts such as: scoping documents, project plans, road maps, timelines, stakeholder engagement plans, communication plans, issues, risks, and dependency management, and project communications. • Strategize, plan for, and deliver efficient and effective project communications to stakeholders across all levels of the enterprise, from analysts to high level executives. Translating complex technical subject matter into relevant and meaningful messaging for different targeted audiences and stakeholders. • Prioritize and work in the grey with limited direct supervision on highly complex assignments.

Required skills: • Experience leading project teams, demonstrating the ability to achieve successful delivery, while overseeing and leading multiple concurrent projects. • Ability to work with common project tools and technologies (Agility, Version One, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, Viva Engage, et al.) • Strong communication skills, written and verbal, for large and diverse audiences that use English as a primary language. • Demonstrated organizational and communication skills. • Ability to build and maintain relationships across the organization. • Ability to work independently and within a team environment. Desired skills:

• Experience with data project teams. • General IT knowledge of data analysis, digital, agile and product management practices and processes.

Strong in Office Suite plus Power Point, Excel, Presenting, Reporting, Planning efforts, Story telling, Sharepoint administration

Executive Summaries, Product showcases, working with business templates, graphics, digital accessibility standards

Nice to have: Agility or Version One, Adobe Suite, Digital analytics knowledge, Git Labs, Scrum master knowledge

CST or AZ time zone preferred

Not just a SharePoint Admin or Scrum master – more of a Communication Lead with experience in IT

Able to wear multiple hats and work with a variety of leaders

Highly professional and able to create enterprise level communications

Strong willingness to learn

Highly organized

SharePoint site management/delegate experience is a definite bonus (access, sites, libraries, organization, content, etc.) – This will likely be area and suite

High Communication skills, director and exec level

Strategic mindset around Reporting consolidation and presentation

• Metrics and strategic deliverable creation (roadmaps, summaries, etc.)

• Presentations

Strategic Focus – responsible for story telling and branding for the suite, and potentially helping with the area to keep things cohesive

Flexibility to adapt to the unknown (brand new area, so dealing with things like “you don’t know what you don’t know”)

• This means random assignments to fill in where we have the need and limited resources (ADL, PO, etc.)

Skills:

Scrum, Agile, Agile methodology, Project management, data management, showcases, Digital, Writing skills, adobe, digital marketing, Reporting, Version One

Top Skills Details:

Scrum,Agile,Agile methodology,Project management,data management,showcases,Digital,Writing skills

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

Communication, able to work with leadership and a variety of technical counterparts, can push teams as needed to drive results

Experience Level:

Expert Level

About TEKsystems:

We’re partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That’s the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.