COMPLETE Communications Specialist - Heredia,CRI

JLL supports the Whole You, personally and professionally.

Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology to our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people in our industry; and we support them through professional growth, flexibility, and personalized benefits to manage life in and outside of work.  Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades, and technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, we empower you to shape a brighter way forward so you can thrive professionally and personally.

The Global Functional Communications Specialist will be one of a team of internal communications and design experts based around the globe. Supporting GREF’s functional teams, you will deliver exceptional written content for various channels in support of GREF’s business initiatives, strategic communications roadmap, team engagement and other, special communication needs.

Acting like a journalist, you will use your intense curiosity and keen relationship-building skills to interact with both GREF and JLL team members to bring their stories to the surface, find new and exciting ways to celebrate their successes, and keep them engaged and informed of activities, both on the account and beyond.

Responsibilities include:

• Support the functional communications team with key global communications and campaigns to support and drive the organizations’ objectives.
• Create engaging and compelling content in various channels and formats to inform, connect, and energize key audiences.
• Create and develop new and interesting ways to reach our diverse audiences through various digital channels, email, posters, digital signage, programming, podcasts, videos, and other methods you can imagine to keep people engaged with consistent and dynamic content, aligned to industry best practices.
• Forge relationships with Real Estate & Facilities and Global Services Programs team members to provide communications support, bring their stories to the surface, and gain an in-depth understanding of their communication needs.
• Pitch content and story ideas based on a global calendar of topics and events so you are ahead of the game and always have an arsenal of ideas to pull from.
• Partner with design and communication team members to develop and maintain templates and toolkits to streamline the content creation process and enforce global consistency aligned to the latest style guidelines.
• Support the identification, development, and integration of new technologies or initiatives, relating to communications.
• Assist our global functional communications mangers with special projects and ad hoc requests as they arise.

What you need to be successful

Skills and requirements we’d like to see:

Languages:

• Fluent and flawless written and spoken English is non-negotiable
• Fluency in other languages a plus

Technical knowhow:

• Microsoft Office proficiency, with focus on Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint. SharePoint experience would be great, too.
• Experience with other social media, internal communication, marketing, or collaboration tools such as Slack, Miro, and Teams
• Experience creating multi-channel communication campaigns with the tech savvy to seamlessly connect them together
• Adobe Creative Suite or other design/layout tools also a plus

Basic skills and qualifications that get your foot in the door:

• Excellent written communication and design skills with experience creating engaging content for large and diverse audiences
• A love of people, design, and storytelling a must!
• An understanding of how to build strategic communications plans aligned to business objectives that deliver results
• Experience supporting global communications programs, ideally in real estate projects and operations
• Highly organized with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Strong interpersonal skills, a natural collaborator, proactive, and always congenial with coworkers, clients, leaders, and customers alike
• Capable of aligning to and following global brand guidelines and writing style guides consistently
• Ability to remain highly-effective in a remote and global environment while demonstrating cultural sensitivity and a willingness to work outside of normal business hours when necessary
• An innovative spirit, curious, outside-the-box thinker, highly adaptable to change, and a preference for simplification of program and process

Education/experience:

• 3-5 years in communications or related field with progressively increasing responsibilities and a portfolio of work that demonstrates a variety of deliverables
• Degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, Creative Writing, Business Administration, or similar

If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet all the requirements. We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

Location:

Hybrid –Heredia,CRI

Job Tags:

GREF

If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet all the requirements.  We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

About JLL –

For over 200 years, JLL (NYSE: JLL), a leading global commercial real estate and investment management company, has helped clients buy, build, occupy, manage and invest in a variety of commercial, industrial, hotel, residential and retail properties. A Fortune 500® company with annual revenue of $20.9 billion and operations in over 80 countries around the world, our more than 103,000 employees bring the power of a global platform combined with local expertise. Driven by our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world, we help our clients, people and communities SEE A BRIGHTER WAY. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, visit jll.com.

JLL Privacy Notice

Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading global provider of real estate and investment management services. We take our responsibility to protect the personal information provided to us seriously. Generally the personal information we collect from you are for the purposes of processing in connection with JLL’s recruitment process. We endeavour to keep your personal information secure with appropriate level of security and keep for as long as we need it for legitimate business or legal reasons. We will then delete it safely and securely.

For more information about how JLL processes your personal data, please view our Candidate Privacy Statement.

For additional details please see our career site pages for each country.

For candidates in the United States, please see a full copy of our Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action policy here.

Jones Lang LaSalle (“JLL”) is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.  If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process – including the online application and/or overall selection process –  you may contact us at Accommodation Requests. This email is only to request an accommodation. Please direct any other general recruiting inquiries to our Contact Us page > I want to work for JLL.