Corporate Public Affairs Officer

The Corporate Public Affairs Manager position works with the plant manager and leadership team, operations external affairs, and corporate social responsibility teams and is responsible for the development, planning, and execution of GAF's community engagement (CE) strategy, initiatives, and programs that advance GAF in the communities and with key stakeholders in our Minneapolis plant community while providing support to Michigan City, Indiana and other plant communities in that region if necessary. This role will lead and manage the strategic implementation of community engagement efforts and initiatives - including stakeholder engagement with business, civil sector, and government leaders, education, relationship management, and executing corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy and programs. This role represents GAF in the local community and regionally when necessary and works primarily with plant leadership and GAF shared services departments including legal, compliance, HR, and marketing/communications.

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