Enterprise Comm Strategist III, Community Communications

Edward Jones Enterprise Communications Strategist

This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days. Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500 company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we're proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns. Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging. People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.
Team Overview: Join a high-impact communications team within External Affairs that is shaping how Edward Jones shows up in communities across the country. This team plays a pivotal role in strengthening the firm's presence in priority markets, advancing financial education, and building meaningful relationships with community leaders, influencers, and stakeholders. If you're passionate about connecting brand, purpose, and community impact at scale, this is an opportunity to make a visible and lasting difference.
What You'll Do: As an Enterprise Communications Strategist, you will lead and execute strategic communications initiatives that strengthen market presence and support community engagement efforts across identified priority markets. You'll partner closely with market business leaders, financial advisors, and cross-functional stakeholders to elevate brand visibility, support business growth objectives, and amplify the firm's impact across financial education and early wealth-building. In this role, you will operate as an individual contributor in a highly matrixed environment, collaborating across teams to align communications strategies with business objectives. You'll translate market priorities into impactful narratives, ensuring the firm's presence is felt where it matters most—within communities, media, and key stakeholder groups.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop and implement communications strategies for identified priority markets to enhance brand visibility and engagement, while serving as communications advisor and key point of contact for all market-based communications.
Drive proactive media relations efforts to support storytelling in local markets
Design and execute communications strategies for community relations initiatives, including financial education and early wealth building programs
Partner across External Communications and Public Relations (Media Relations, Reputation Management, Executive Visibility) and External Affairs teams (Community Relations, Philanthropy, EA Market Management) to align messaging
Manage communications for enterprise campaigns that include community engagement components
Oversee project timelines, budgets, and execution for local and national initiatives
Lead and manage outside agency support team.
Travel up to 25% to support market engagement and on-the-ground execution
What Experience You'll Need:
7+ years of experience in corporate communications, public relations, or community affairs
Bachelor's degree required, advanced degree or relevant certifications preferred
Experience developing and executing communications strategies aligned to business objectives with exceptional writing and editing skills
Media relations experience, including building and managing media contacts
Experience working in complex, highly matrixed organizations
Project management experience, including managing timelines, budgets, and deliverables
Proficiency with Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams), supporting high-quality content development, data analysis, and cross-team collaboration
Experience using media monitoring or distribution tools (e.g., Cision)
Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.