Essential Duties

• Public relations: Plan, organize, and evaluate public relations efforts, including representing GAF with various local and regional community, business and government stakeholders and in community events

• Key stakeholder engagement: Establish and manage relationships with key influential stakeholders in our local community(ies) including local government officials, business community leaders, local membership organizations, nonprofits and community organizing groups

• Brand promotion: Use marketing and communications to raise awareness of the organization's social responsibility commitments and activities in our local community(ies)

• Policy formulation: Participate in policy formulation and advise on how the public might react to proposed policies in local communities

• Communication strategy support and implementation: Plan and implement local communication efforts aligned with overall communications strategy and evaluate communication strategies, programs, and materials to meet local and regional needs

• Sales support: Build and maintain strong relationships with GAF sales organization to support customer engagement in strategic community activities and engagements

• Regulatory compliance: Understand all key regulatory requirements for representing plants, support regulatory compliance teams and plant leadership to ensure the company is adhering to existing and new rules and regulations

• CSR best practices: Share CSR best practices with internal partners through GAF and apply them when suitable in our communities

Qualifications Required

• H.S. Diploma or General Education Degree (GED) Required

• Bachelor’s Degree Preferred

• 5+ years of related experience in external and/or public affairs, external stakeholder engagement, lobbying, community engagement and/or management roles within the manufacturing industry with experience in communications or marketing preferred

• Strong initiative and capability for proposing/developing new stakeholder engagement strategies and approaches

• Proven ability in stakeholder and community engagement, communications, project planning and management, and business operations

• Advanced written and verbal communication skills

• Strategic management and implementation

• Cross-functional team leadership and management

• Ability to build deep, lasting relationships

• Agility in managing projects across multiple deliverables with moving timelines/priorities

• Entrepreneurial, self-starter, and self-motivated

• Detail oriented

• Comfortable working as a team leader and player