DESCRIPTION

Job summary
As cloud technologies continue to transform businesses, individuals with cloud skills are in high demand. AWS Training and Certification (T&C) is passionate about providing our customers with AWS Cloud skills. We seek a self-motivated, high-judgement, and creative communications professional to help us tell our AWS Training and Certification (T&C) story in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) through external communications working in concert with EMEA AWS PR.

The successful candidate will be a strategic thinker who has demonstrated the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic organization. This individual will be a great storyteller with excellent writing, editing and communications skills, and who has the ability to identify and articulate compelling stories across traditional and digital communications channels. They will be a team player, driving collaboration across multiple functions within the business, and will work closely with senior stakeholders and spokespeople to train and prepare them to speak about our skilling initiatives at events and with the media. This individual will be able to balance strategic thinking with tactical execution, pay close attention to detail, exercise high-judgment while acting quickly, and be comfortable working with senior executives.

This role may be based anywhere in Europe.

Key job responsibilities
• Build and execute end-to-end external communication strategy for the EMEA region, in partnership with global, regional, and local stakeholders.
• Deliver and scale ready-to-pitch content that elevates profile of T&C and AWS’ cloud skills training in local market and/or region (e.g., media alerts, blogs, byline articles, case studies).
• Train media spokespeople to speak clearly and effectively about our programs.
• Draft and assist in securing approvals for blogs, byline articles, press releases, pitches, and other external facing materials.
• Write compelling copy and content for a variety of mediums and channels, including email, digital, video, graphic, and visual communications.
• Track and report metrics on effectiveness of content, as well as continually monitor, analyze, and tune strategies to maximize impact.
• Manage multiple priorities as an independent, self-starter with excellent time management within a rapidly evolving business.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of eight years of public relations experience in technology or related sector
• Experience working alongside marketing, social, analyst relations, and other functions to deliver integrated campaigns
• Experience media training executives and providing them with strategic communications counsel

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in a business-to-business (B2B) environment; IT/cloud communications experience preferred.
• Experience working in a fast-paced and highly cross-functional organization where tactical and strategic activities are expected to be driven in parallel.
• Superior oral and written communication skills with an innate attention to detail.
• Experience driving communication campaigns from concept to completion with minimal guidance.
• Proven ability to rewrite, optimize, and edit content, and articulate complicated issues clearly and concisely.
• Experience creating content for a variety of channels and mediums: digital, written, video, or visual communications materials.
• Demonstrated experience building trust and influencing cross-functional teams and senior leaders.
• Ability to exercise high judgment, particularly in narrow time-frames.
• An agile, flexible individual with a “can-do”, problem-solving attitude and approach who has a track record of diving into unknown territory and learning new concepts.



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