Public Affairs Manager

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Public Affairs Manager

Philippines (No Local)

To meet the needs of the Church, we seek to build teams that represent the diverse perspectives, broad life experiences and backgrounds of our global Church membership. With that in mind, we encourage all qualified applicants to apply.

Job Description

The central work of Public Affairs is to build strategic relationships with opinion leaders who affect the reputation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and whose actions and influence can help or hinder the Church's mission.

Providing Information, Insights And Perspectives By

• identifying problems, challenges, and opportunities facing the Church
• helping Church leaders make informed decisions
• anticipating the effect of those decisions on specific publics
• communicating in ways that build effective relationships for the Church and help solve problems. Primary audiences for this position include the Public Affairs Directors' council, the Public Affairs committee, the Quorum of the Twelve and the First Presidency.
• Others include The Presidency of the Seventy, Area Presidencies, Area Seventy, "key city" councils, government and community leaders as well as other departments of the Church. (ie Welfare, Family History, Missionary etc...)
  
  

Responsibilities

• Potential duties:
• Writes and edits press releases, news and feature articles, position papers, training materials, speeches etc
• Responds to inquiries from journalists, newspapers, magazines, radio, television etc
• Promotes news and feature stories to the worldwide media
• Utilization of "new media" outlets through the Internet such as "bloggers" and web writers
• "News Room" web-site messaging and maintenance
• Provides research and evaluation for pre and post public relations initiatives
• Monitors social, political and economic trends
• Researches reports and articles to provide strategic analysis of worldwide information and trends
• Provides analysis of scanned and monitored data
• Creates brochures, leaflets, press packets, video news releases, public service programming etc
• Produces video's, audio visual presentations etc
• Trains priesthood leaders, public affairs directors and missionaries worldwide
• Handles major special events such as General Conference,temple open houses, Tabernacle Choir receptions, dedications, centennials, etc
• Works strategically to create positive relationships for the Church with media, government and community leaders
• Creates and implements crisis management plans
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in communications-related field or equivalent. (ie, public relations, communications, journalism, marketing, government relations, international relations, political science, social science)
• Minimum 7 years Prefer 8+ years In areas related to Public Affairs; Communications; Marketing; Media; Government Relations; International Relations, etc.
• Requires excellent writing and communications skills.
• Ability to think strategically and bring people together.
• Experience with Church organization and priesthood governance.
• Ability to represent the Church well with individuals at any level.
• Ability to manage and coordinate numerous tasks and assignments concurrently.
• Good organization skills are required to balance competing priorities within time constraints and often under pressure.
• Competent with word processing, presentation graphics, data base and Internet access and utilization.
• Job Identification 371706
• Job Category CM - Communications, Public Relations & Marketing
• Posting Date 11/07/2025, 06:44 AM
• Locations #13 Temple Drive corner Whiteplains Avenue, Quezon City, Metro Manila, 1110, PH (No Local)
• Apply Before 11/20/2025, 04:00 AM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Regular or Temporary Regular
• Worker Type Employee
• Number of Openings 1
• Anúncio/Mais informações Please note that this job posting may close at any time without prior notice. Find out more about the many benefits of Church Employment at https://careers.churchofjesuschrist.org.
  
  

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