Communications Operator
Communications Operator
Posted 12 days ago
SENIORITY
Senior
About the role
- Run the recurring cadence for executive briefings, leadership digests, newsletters, and standing forums. Maintain the calendar, work backward from deadlines, build in review time, and flag conflicts early.
- Own high-visibility recurring moments from pre-work and materials through distribution, follow-up, and after-action review.
- Manage requests received through email, chat, and informal conversations. Give every request a home, status, and owner in a single tracking system such as Asana.
- Draft in leadership’s voice using established voice and formatting guides, then refine the work in partnership with leadership.
- Filter, triage, and route requests so leadership sees what needs its attention. Bring sensitive decisions forward for guidance.
- Support the broader team and convert lessons learned into checklists and documented steps so recurring work does not depend on one person’s memory.
- Confirm communications reached their audience, capture feedback, and use that feedback to improve the next cycle.
- 3–5 years in communications, executive support, content production, or a comparable role with ownership of recurring deliverables from beginning to end.
- Experience managing recurring communications for senior leaders, with the ability to describe the volume, cadence, and tracking system used.
- A record of carrying work from rough input through completion and distribution, then following up without being prompted.
- Clear writing in another person’s voice, comfort incorporating edits, and the ability to work within established standards.
- Strong calendar management and the ability to anticipate competing deadlines several weeks ahead.
- The ability to build and document systems another person could use to run the next cycle.
- Sound judgment about what to handle, route, or escalate, including seeking guidance before making sensitive decisions. Role Expectations:
- This seat owns recurring execution; the Director owns external client and stakeholder relationships.
- The role makes established communications and processes run reliably rather than creating the first version of new strategies or solutions.
- Sensitive or politically complex decisions are brought forward for guidance.
- Completion includes distribution, confirmation, follow-up, and capturing improvements for the next cycle.
- Recurring communications go out on time, in the right format, with nothing falling through.
- Every request has a home, status, and owner; leadership receives only what requires its attention.
- Leadership trusts your execution, reduces double-checking, and gives you work earlier.
- Each cycle builds on documented processes rather than starting from scratch.
- Work is routed to you because you reliably carry it through completion. How You’ll Be Supported:
- Defined, living processes for recurring deliverables.
- A daily 20-minute stand-up and a weekly 80-minute working session with the Portfolio Communications Director.
- Clear expectations for what finished work looks like before you begin.
- Guidance when a decision is sensitive or unclear, along with honest, early feedback.
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