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We are seeking a Content Senior Specialist to join our communications team. As a Content Senior Specialist, you will serve as reporter, writer, editor, and content provider for Buckner Communications. Identify and generate impactful editorial content for use across communications channels. Serve as a staff writer, an editor and a photographer for Buckner print publications and communications. Join our team and shine hope in the lives of others! 

What you'll do:

• Take a lead role in new content discovery and generation through regular collaboration with Buckner program staff to identify and generate mission-driven stories that evoke emotion and foster audience connection.
• Serve as content developer for Buckner Communications across multiple channels, including print, video, web, blogs, scripts, promotional writing, and photography, among others.
• Serve as an editor of Buckner print publications, including, but not limited to a quarterly magazine and an annual Spanish-language newsletter.
• Coordinate with the Communications team and Development to generate content that supports ongoing communications and fundraising needs.
• Serve as a staff writer providing writing and editing support across communications functions, including blogs, thought leadership and opinion pieces, internal and external event scripts, white papers, annual reports, and more, while ensuring all content consistently upholds Buckner's brand, voice, and style standards.
• Handle content project management by tracking story ideas and monitoring editorial development at various stages.
• Effectively support efforts to achieve an organized publications and electronic media schedule and/or editorial calendar.
• Take high-quality photos to accompany print and digital content.
• Assist in the management of freelance writers and photographers.
• Participate in and support other communications functions as needed, such as event execution, marketing activations, AV production, or other communications support.
• Provides excellent communication and customer service to all customers, including internal clients, staff, Buckner clients, stakeholders, and donors, from the initial project request through to completion.
• Maintain privacy and respect during interviews with Buckner clients, employees, and stakeholders.

 What you'll bring:

• Bachelor's degree in journalism, communications, or related field required.
• Minimum of 5 years of prior related experience required.
• Excellent professional customer service skills when interacting with internal and external stakeholders and clients.
• Knowledge and experience of journalistic communications and public relations.
• Knowledge of the print publication process preferred.
• Strong featurestyle writing skills with the ability to identify mission-driven stories that evoke emotion and foster audience connection.
• Skills include, but are not limited to, reporting impactful stories, writing, and editing for print and online media, interviewing clients and staff, digital photography, and organizational skills.
• Requires proficient ability in digital photography to provide visual content for communications, publications, and materials.
• Extensive knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite on the Windows platform.
• Professional, proactive demeanor and the ability to effectively work with a variety of individuals to attain organizational goals.
• Travel to various geographic locations, both domestically and internationally, with some overnight stays in support of assignments. Requires ability to obtain and maintain current documentation for international travel.
• Proficient ability to speak, read, and write English. Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred.
• Ability to relate positively, influentially, and sensitively to a broad spectrum of persons in a variety of multi-tiered relationships and settings to include but not limited to clergy, laity, institutional staff/faculty, various organizations, churches of all sizes, cultural identities, board and council members.
• Proficient ability to exhibit detail-oriented skills necessary to understand and manage a wide range of information.
• Requires recognition that the organization is a faith-based organization operating with a commitment to Christian principles

 The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the essential functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.