Internal Communications Associate

Are you interested in working for one of the nation’s largest professional services firms? Do you need a new challenge? Or a family-oriented culture that is second to none? CLA is seeking to hire an Internal Communication Associate in our Charlotte, NC location. If you are enthusiastic, team player and detailed oriented, apply today! Job Responsibilities:

• Serves as creator and editor of CLA’s communications, articles, intranet, and other miscellaneous communications, programs or channels related to communications. Responsible for content planning, development, delivery, and continuing to create communications that move our CLA family.
• Ensures accuracy of communications including content and messaging. Plans, prepares, writes and edits messaging and publications ensuring that communications have clear objectives, content is accurate and audience appropriate. Fact checks for accuracy. Proactively provides feedback and support to business partners to help improve overall comprehension of messaging.
• Acts as a consultant and resource for support office teams to create communications plans, content and provides feedback proactively to develop the skill in others.
• Proactively seeks feedback for continuous improvement and delivers a positive brand representations in all interactions.
• Accountable to ensure the communications we deliver are effective, efficiently and timely.
• Responsible for maintaining positive cross-functional partnerships with corporate communications and other business units across the support office. Maintains positive internal and external relationships.
• Leverage functional expertise to create, edit and support business partners as needed.
• Monitors and proactively acts on communication platforms for feedback to apply solutions that improve the quality and efficiency of communications and publications.

Requirements Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in communications and at least 3 years of experience in communications activities at a company/professional services firm
• Experience writing short, action-based communications, strategic documents and presentations
• Knowledge of communications best practices, such as design, development, and management of user-generated content (for example: blogs and social networking sites)
• Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates
• Experience developing ways of accomplishing goals with little or no supervision, depending on oneself to complete objectives and determining when escalation of issues is necessary
• Intermediate level in Microsoft Office Suite (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
• Basic level skill with Photoshop (e.g., resizing photos, erasing backgrounds, adding layers and basic photo editing, such as brightness and contrast).
• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state)

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a communications discipline (for example: mass communications, professional services communications, journalism, public relations)
• Experience in AP Style
• Experience in accounting, audit, tax, and wealth advisory is a plus, but not required

We Look forward to seeing your application! #LI-MH2 CLA exists to create opportunities for our people, our clients, and our communities. We are a proud equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability status, protected veteran status, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law.