Are you passionate toward assisting veterans and their immediate family members to establish and grow their businesses? Do you want to develop your career in Marketing and Public Relations?
If your answer is yes to both questions, this is the right job for you!
Public Affairs Specialist for Veteran Business Outreach Center for PR & USVI
Background:
· Must have a competency in business assistance defined as holding a B.A. in business, preferably in Marketing or Communications, or having prior work experience in this area.
· Experience at reaching diversity media outlets and crafting diversity messaging required.
· Knowledge of marketing and communication practices and applications as well as familiarity with current online social media sources (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, blogging, other emerging technologies)
· Established media relationships with diversity, trade, and mainstream media outlets
· Excellent interpersonal skills, flexibility, and the ability to effectively interact with a diverse range of people
· Must have demonstrated knowledge of the military culture
Duties:
· Segmenting the markets with their respective niches to build a database with useful information to contact veterans.
· Prepare a list of veterans interested in participating in business training or individual counseling.
· Assist the SBA District Office in coordinating facilities and the resources for the training.
· Coordinate presentations in the community to present the opportunities for veterans offered the Center.
· Identify the opportunities to increase the possibilities of capturing prospects for the program.
· Coordinate contacts with the different media in Puerto Rico in order to promote the program.
· Maintain a file with a log of assistance of all the services for the veterans provided by the Center.
· Serves as coordinator for the partnership with veteran organizations in PR & USVI
· Coordinate and execute program marketing plan and program communication strategies to recruit participants for the training events and personal counseling services.
· Manage the VBOC social media page and website.
· Draft social media posts and press releases for communicating program impact.
· Create and distribute program outreach materials such as brochures, fact sheets and newsletters.
· Attend phone calls of the VBOC and coordinate referrals of participants to trainings, consultants or SBA Resource Partners as recommended by the Business Development Counselor.
· In charge of registration of all participants in the training events. Coordinates all participant signature of SBA 641 Forms. Take pictures of all Boots to Business events for media advertising.
· Collect program impact information and prepare success stories.
· Coordinate and execute program marketing plan and program communication strategies to recruit participants for the training events and personal counseling services.
· Manage the VBOC social media page and website.
· Draft social media posts and press releases for communicating program impact.
· Create and distribute program outreach materials such as brochures, fact sheets and newsletters.
· Attend phone calls of the VBOC and coordinate referrals of participants to trainings, Lead Consultants, ancillary consultants or SBA Resource Partners.
We are an equal opportunity employer.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $13.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
Dental insurance
Employee assistance program
Health insurance
Paid time off
Schedule:
8 hour shift
Day shift
Monday to Friday
Application Question(s):
Do you have writing skills in English?
Education:
Bachelor's (Preferred)
Language:
English (Required)
Spanish (Required)
Work Location: In person
