Andrea Baker – Enterprise 2.0 Evangelist

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Web 2.0 Corporate Communications Manager

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You can send your resume to me (abaker at navstar-inc.com). All new job postings are listed on our website. I am also pleased to announce that starting this new year, we offer health, dental, and vision coverage for domestic partnerships.

Navstar, Inc Job Order #1327

Posted Date:	1/8/2010
Job Category:	Information Technology
Position Title:	Web 2.0 Corporate Communications Manager
Salary Range:	90-100K
Location:	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Desired Skills:
Description	This position will be responsible for developing corporate communications strategy with stake holders by identifying and evaluating current social media market tools and technologies, and incorporating the newest technologies, including wikis, blogs, forums, etc, to deploy across the enterprise. Responsible for determining costs and making recommendations as to which capabilities are best utilized to address specific communications requirements and audiences. Concurrently, this position is responsible for interfacing with existing tools and technologies, such as the corporate intranet website to enhance their effectiveness and to continually improve the corporate communications system. This position will play a key role in driving innovative, but at the same time, practical, cost effective, and achievable incremental communications systems improvements. Candidate should have skills in newest web 2.0 technologies to maximize communications to engage internal and external audiences. Also, skills in project management and effective presentation, informal personal and written communications are required. In addition to developing current communications solutions and system improvements, this position will be responsible for keeping current with and informed on emerging techniques, tools, and capabilities, and particularly identifying those that appear will become durable and practical solutions. The successful candidate will possess a bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent, and typically will have ten to twelve years of overall related experience with three years of recent direct experience in social media strategy and implementation. Candidate will also have specific experience in a large and geographically dispersed organization of more than 6,000 employees deploying and utilizing Enterprise 2.0 and other advanced communications and collaboration applications and tools. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated innovation in strategic planning, identifying, evaluating, and applying tools such as forums, blogs, personalized websites, SharePoint and other collaborative tools, as well as new and emerging tools that apply to personal electronic devices including cell phones, PDAs, and BlackBerrys, to achieve measurable improvements in communications effectiveness, particularly with a dispersed and non-homogeneous employee population. Desired technical skills: Microsoft .Net Framework, AJAX, XHTML, HTML, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and support for user-generated content such as wikis, blogs, and forums. Photoshop and Flash expertise would be a plus. In the performance of his or her duties this position will interface closely with creative, technical, and infrastructure support people in multiple groups departments.