About This Role
The Internal Communications Specialist coordinates, initiates, and executes internal communications projects, collaborating with various business partners to meet deliverables while adhering to Garmin brand guidelines. This role focuses on maintaining effective communication within the company and supporting associate engagement.
Responsibilities
- Monitor internal communications project workflow system and ensure all requests are responded to and initiated in a timely manner
- Manage complex workload while serving internal client needs
- Maintain and update all department site pages on the company-wide associate intranet with a sense of urgency and minimal oversight
- Serve as department liaison for Garmin Intranet, monitoring company-wide sites and notifying internal stakeholders when their sites need to be updated, and aligning with department leaders to identify needs and make appropriate content recommendations
- Oversee human resources internal video library, work with HR leaders to create and share associate video vignettes on an ongoing basis, and assign and edit videos to represent ongoing candidate recruitment needs
- Coordinate print production requests across various departments in support of a variety of recognition and training programs such as associate of the month and new associate orientation
- Serve as active participant on internal and external corporate event committees and manage a variety of Intranet-related projects to promote associate engagement such as volunteer signups, event registrations, external partner communications and swag distribution
- Coordinate and/or provide photography and video requests as needed by the corporate events team
- Independently perform continual copy and formatting updates to corporate handbooks and policy documents, ensuring quality and accuracy, and upload to corporate Intranet
- Maintain corporate photo library throughout digital asset management system, ensuring imagery is up to date and includes new global facilities, business leaders and corporate milestones, awards and events; exercise independent judgment to edit, add, and delete assets as necessary
- Use creativity and originality to write short stories and identify assets for the Garmin internal blog
- Create and provide project status reports to internal stakeholders
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing or related discipline
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in a communications role (can include internship)
- Demonstrated ability to edit and write AP-style copy
- Experience working in a corporate or internal communications environment
- Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to multi-task and work on tight deadlines
