Communication Coordinator

Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. (Heidrick) is the world’s premier provider of senior-level executive search and leadership consulting services, including talent management, board building, executive on-boarding and M&A effectiveness. For more than 50 years, the company has focused on quality service and built strong leadership teams through its relationships with clients and individuals worldwide.  Today, Heidrick & Struggles’ leadership experts operate from principal business centres in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

 

Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Heidrick (NASDAQ: HSII) generates approximately $500 million in revenues with the Americas region contributing 56% of that total.  The Americasregion comprises twenty four offices located in the Principal cities of the US, Canada, Mexicoand Latin America, and employs approximately 850 people.  

 

The region’s goals for 2007 include the restoration of double digit growth in revenues and profitability, developing further and transitioning the Region’s CEO practice to new leadership, integrating Leadership Consulting into its search consultants’ armamentarium, better connecting the Region’s consultants with each other as well as with colleagues in APAC and EMEA, deepening penetration of global accounts, identifying and developing the next generation of leadership, and realigning its OMP/PIC organizational structure with its business strategy.

Additional information on the firm can be found at www.heidrick.com

The Communications Coordinator will work as a member of the project team on a global implementation initiative.  This individual will be responsible for all project communications needs within the established corporate guidelines.  S/he will play a key role in developing an overall communications plan and executing to deliver success.  S/he must be able to translate complex ideas into easy to understand information.  The ability to quickly learn the organizational culture and author communications, while taking audience sensitivity into account, will be a key factor of success.  This individual must be able to work collaboratively and have a strong creative flare with excellent writing skills.

 

Supporting Project communications needs:

• Producing and writing announcements and updates for internal clients
• Writing and editing key documents and sections of the intranet site
• Working with management to target and communicate with project team and end-users
• Creating and utilizing consistent templates and style guidelines
• Utilizing visual imagery to complement communications
• Creating presentations and other project deliverables
• Working with project team to improve their communications style and skills
• Providing feedback on and editing key project communications
• Identifying project promotion techniques and strategies

 

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated excellence in writing and editing
•  Global experience highly desired
• At least two years experience working within the field of communications (either marketing or journalism)
• Experience in writing for the web
• Excellent written and spoken English
• A relevant degree to at least BA level
• Enjoy working collaboratively and within a dynamic and (geographically) dispersed team
• Ability to wear multiple hats during project work to assist team as needed       An active interest in the creative representation of information
• Ability to grasp technical concepts and translate for business audience and vice versa