Communications Senior Advisor
Date: Jun 6, 2025
Location: Rosemead, CA, US, 91770-3714
Company: Southern California Edison
Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a Communications Senior Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll be a key member of the Integrated Communications Planning team, responsible for developing and executing strategic communications initiatives that support SCE’s mission, reputation and business priorities. You’ll lead the creation of integrated communications plans, craft compelling messaging and collaborate across departments to champion alignment with company goals.
This role demands a seasoned communicator who is not only an expert writer but also a strategic planner with the agility to navigate complex and evolving issues. You’ll be expected to offer trusted counsel to senior leaders and business partners, anticipate challenges and deliver clear, timely and effective communications across a variety of channels. Your ability to reach the right audience with the right message at the right time will be critical to success.
As a Communications Senior Advisor, you’ll also serve as a Public Information Officer (PIO) during Incident Management Team activations, playing a vital role in supporting our customers and communities during emergencies. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact – both inside and outside the company – by helping to tell the SCE story with clarity, purpose and integrity.
As a Communications Senior Advisor, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?
Responsibilities
- Leads strategic execution of communications strategy and measures the effectiveness for the relevant team’s focus area.
- Drives communications that inform and educate, and when needed, manage risk and mitigate crises.
- Leads editorial development to establish a continuous and optimized presence across platforms (brainstorming, planning sessions, content pipeline, etc.).
- Translates business goals into communications strategies, tactics and messaging.
- Identifies opportunities to share success stories about big initiatives and company/departmental/team priorities.
- Provides strategic advice and counsel and develops standard work processes.
- Recommends and creates specific communications materials such as blogs, op-eds, fact sheets, site copy and key messages/talking points.
- A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.
Minimum Qualifications
- Ten or more years of experience in Corporate Communications within a corporate and/or agency environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Communications, Marketing, Business, Journalism or related field.
- 10 or more years of progressive experience in strategic communications, content development, digital storytelling or integrated marketing communications.
- Strong handle on AP Style and copy editing.
- Exceptional writing, editing and storytelling skills, with the ability to distill complex information into compelling content for diverse audiences across multiple platforms (e.g., intranet, websites, social media, email and executive messaging).
- Experience working in complex, fast-paced environments and across multiple organizational levels.
- Proven ability to develop and implement integrated communications plans that align with business goals and drive measurable outcomes.
- Experience in navigating complex issues and translating them into clear, actionable messaging.
- Strategic problem solver with attention to tactical execution and detail.
- Ability to offer sound counsel, influence stakeholders and collaborate across departments.
- Ability to express complex thoughts and plans through presentations / PowerPoint.
- A strategic problem-solver who is nimble, creative and able to manage multiple competing priorities under tight deadlines.
- Strong attention to detail, initiative and a commitment to continuous improvement.
Additional Information
- This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
- Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
- There may a writing assessment as part of the interview process.
- Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
About Southern California Edison
The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.
Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at (833) 343-0727.
