Regional PR Specialist

Skills
Crisis ManagementEasily AdaptableExternal RelationshipsHuman InterestLocal MediaMedia RelationsRadio
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of recent professional communications or public relations experience
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Experience delivering results under tight deadlines
  • Strong writing and excellent communications skills
  • Ability to collaborate across multiple stakeholder teams
  • Ability to travel regularly across South Carolina and the Southeast
  • Comfortable serving as an on-the-record and on-camera spokesperson

Nice to have

  • High judgment
  • Self-motivated
  • Creative
  • Easily adaptable
  • High acumen in crisis management
  • Acute local awareness
  • Bilingual Spanish

Day to day

  • Manage proactive earned storytelling at the hyperlocal level in South Carolina
  • Develop external media coverage across Amazon's reputational and business areas
  • Build relationships with local reporters content creators stakeholders and community leaders
  • Craft releases advisories pitches talking points and other communications materials
  • Represent Amazon as an on-the-record and on-camera spokesperson across multiple media formats