Industry Communications Coordinator (Public Affairs Specialist 2) at Oregon

Initial Posting Date:

10/29/2025

Application Deadline:

11/12/2025

Agency:

Oregon Business Development Department

Salary Range:

$5,837 - $8,959

Position Type:

Employee

Position Title:

Industry Communications Coordinator (Public Affairs Specialist 2)

Job Description:

Business Oregon, the state’s economic development agency, is currently hiring a Industry Communications Coordinator (Public Affairs Specialist 2). The person in this key communications role will leverage your skills as a creative writer and communicator to execute communications strategies that promote the outcomes of Business Oregon’s work assisting businesses throughout the state of Oregon. You’ll also use communications strategies to promote Oregon as the ideal business location, touting the key industries growing in the state. This position uses their stellar creative writing skills to promote economic development tools, promote collaboration amongst economic development organizations, and promote Oregon’s competitive advantages. This position will also help craft, manage, and calendar social media content, and coordinate regional visits for agency leadership around the state.

As a member of the agency’s communications team, you will also provide general communications services to some agency teams, such as drafting short success stories, recommending community outreach, or crafting press releases.

Note: This position is hybrid, offering flexibility to support work-life balance. While remote work is encouraged, occasional in-person collaboration, as needed, typically one to two days per week, is expected for those located near the office to foster team connection and support overall operations.

What you will do:  

• Tell Our Story: Publicize outcomes from agency programs and services that support Oregon industries. Write compelling success stories and other content that highlight the positive economic impacts of Business Oregon’s work, demonstrating how our tools, services, and partnerships help Oregon businesses thrive. Promote the projects the agency’s business development team is delivering and the impacts they have for Oregonians.

• Lead Business Development Marketing Campaigns: Execute strategies outlined in the agency communication plan, including developing and delivering branded campaigns that support business retention, expansion, and recruitment efforts across the state.

• Back Our Story with Data: Collect and analyze rankings, statistics, and facts that showcase Oregon’s competitive business advantages. Combine data-driven insights with creative storytelling using success stories to produce content for publications such as news releases, presentations, advertisements, brochures, web pages, and other communication materials.

• Manage Social Media Campaigns: Develop and coordinate social media campaigns that promote the agency’s work and success stories. Collaborate with internal teams and partner organizations to gather content and apply best practices for digital engagement.

• Plan and Coordinate Regional Visits: Work with our Regional Development Officers and the communications team to organize visits for agency leadership to communities across Oregon, meeting with local partners, touring projects, and highlighting successful initiatives.

The ideal candidate will possess a combination of some or all the following skills:

• Demonstrated proficiency in written and verbal communication, delivering clear and consistent messaging across platforms and translating complex topics into accessible, plain language.

• Proven ability to develop and execute multi-channel marketing campaigns, including social media and email platforms, while applying storytelling and creative writing techniques.

• Experience working with CRM systems, e-marketing tools, and content management platforms, with the ability to collect and analyze data for use in communications strategies.

• Strong project management skills, including coordinating multi-organization projects, executing plans, and maintaining accurate records.

• Experience using Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop).

Please note: if you are interested in applying for this position, you must attach your current cover letter and resume to your application. Failure to submit the required resume and cover letter will remove your application from consideration.

What you need to qualify:

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

A Bachelor's Degree in Business or Public Administration, Public Relations, Marketing, Journalism, the Behavioral or Social Sciences or related degree and two years professional level experience in Public Relations or Affairs.

OR

Five years experience directly related to the position under recruitment; two of the five years must have been at the professional level.

What Business Oregon does:

Business Oregon is the economic development agency for the state of Oregon. We have about 200 people on our team, and we work with communities and businesses. We use our programs and expertise to help businesses grow, so they can in turn add jobs, diversify the economy, and increase Oregon prosperity. We work with communities to enhance and expand infrastructure and community safety with projects such as water/wastewater systems, seismic rehabilitation for schools, or rural broadband development. This also sets the stage for future business development. Our mission is to invest in Oregon’s businesses, communities, and people to promote a globally competitive, diverse, and inclusive economy, all carried out with an agency strategic plan.

The mission of the Business Oregon is to invest in Oregon businesses, communities, and people to promote a globally competitive, diverse, and inclusive economy.

The Operations Division serves every part of the department and includes all central administrative services. The central services include: Communications and Research; Employee Services/HR; Fiscal and Budget Services; Information Technology; and Policy, Audits, and Contracts (PAC). 

The Communications and Research Section include the Communications and Research teams. The Section provides services and tools agency-wide, assisting with research and products for strategy and policy-making decisions; and manages agency marketing, communications, social media, and branding.

How to Apply

Please Note: Applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 PM PST on 11/12/2025.

• If you are a current State of Oregon employee, you must apply through your employee Workday account through Jobs Hub.

• Click the “Apply” button above to complete your online application.

• Attach your current cover letter and resume. Failure to submit the required resume and cover letter may remove your application from consideration. Clearly demonstrate in your cover letter how you meet all the minimum qualifications and requested skills listed above.

• Your resume and cover letter can be attached at the start of the Workday application process or at the conclusion.

• Complete the questionnaire. Warning – Workday will timeout due to inactivity and will not save your application progress unless you use the “save for later” function. If you need to take a break, please be sure to click the save for later button to save your progress.

• Be sure to check Workday and your email for additional tasks and updates. After submitting, there may be additional required tasks for you to complete prior to the announcement closing.

• The candidates whose work experience most closely matches the qualifications and skills of this position will be invited to interview.  

What’s in it for you:

• Family Friendly Work Life Balance: Paid time off, 11 holidays, 3 personal days & optional short- and long-term disability benefits.

• Take Care of Yourself and Your Family: Comprehensive employee benefits, choice of medical plans, vision plan, life insurance, employee assistance program.

• Invest in Your Future: Pension plan, deferred comp, short- and long-term disability plan, flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care.

• Be Appreciated: Employee recognition events, agency unique employee recognition program allowing for additional leave options such as vacation buy-out and sick leave roll-over, dynamic employees doing impactful work.

• Inclusion: At Business Oregon, we value community and foster a sense of belonging for our employees.

Additional Information:

• Per the Pay Equity Law passed in 2017, a pay equity analysis will be conducted to determine what pay step the successful candidate will be offered. The analysis will be based on the relevant experience, education, training, and certifications documented in the application materials.

• It is our policy to provide reasonable accommodation to all applicants who may need them. Should you need assistance, or an accommodation please contact Lies Wattimena at [email protected] to discuss how we can best meet your needs.

• Veterans’ Preference - Eligible veterans who meet the qualifications will be given veterans' preference. If you checked that you are a veteran, we will ask you for your documents later in the process. Click on the Veterans’ Preference link for additional information.

• Criminal Records Check - Hiring of the successful candidate will be contingent upon the results of a Criminal Background Check.  Adverse background data may be grounds for immediate disqualification.

• Work Authorization - Business Oregon does not offer visa sponsorship. Within three days of hire, all applicants will be required to complete the US Department of Homeland Security's Form I-9, confirming authorization to work in the United States.

• This recruitment will be used to establish a list of qualified candidates to fill the current position and may be used to fill future vacancies as they occur.

• This position is a classified, full-time, exempt position and is not represented by a union.

• PERS – This is a PERS qualifying position. After a six-month waiting period eligible Management Service, Executive Service, and Unrepresented employees will have their base pay increased by 6.95% and the 6% PERS contribution deducted from their base pay rather than a direct 6% contribution by the State of Oregon to the employees PERS account.  This will mirror the bargained SEIU and AFSCME PERS process.

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Need help?

We invite you to contact the recruiter for application questions or job-specific questions.

• The recruiter for this position is Lisa Santiago, Human Resource Analyst. If you contact the recruiter, please include the job requisition (REQ) number that can be found at the top of this job post.

• Email: [email protected] 

• Phone (call or text): 971-600-4484

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