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Remote Communications & PR Specialist (Part-time)

HireLATAM · New York, NY, USA · Remote ·

Job type:
Contract

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Job Title: Remote Communications & PR Specialist

(Part-time)

(

100% Work From Home)

Location:

Remote from Latin America

Position Type:

Part-time (Contract / 20 hours per week)

Salary:

$11.00 USD/hour

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 20 hours per week (Offering flexible daily management with the requirement of consistent availability, responsiveness during agreed working blocks, and alignment with weekly team check-ins held in US Eastern Time / EST).

Position Overview:

Our Client is a growing, full-service marketing and consulting agency based in the United States. They are dedicated to helping diverse businesses and organizations achieve their scaling objectives through innovative, tailored marketing and communications infrastructure. Specializing in brand awareness, customer loyalty loops, multi-cultural audience connection, and meaningful grassroots community engagement, they engineer high-impact messaging strategies that empower modern brands to succeed.

The Role

Our Client is seeking a highly skilled, proactive, and versatile

Communications & PR Specialist

for a long-term, part-time engagement. This role is a critical position responsible for crafting, refining, and executing impactful written copy and media strategy across multiple digital platforms. Balancing creative copywriting with systematic media outreach, the successful candidate will own client content pipelines from initial calendar planning to active public relations distribution, ensuring every communication asset drives visibility and search optimization.

Key Responsibilities

Multi-Channel Content Strategy & Copywriting

Develops and maintains comprehensive content calendars to ensure consistent, highly strategic messaging across all active client communication channels.
Writes, edits, and proofreads high-converting copy across a diverse array of formats, including website layouts, email marketing flows, newsletters, blog articles, and social media placements.
Drafts thorough workshop summaries, corporate reports, and foundational content strategy briefs tailored to specific business milestones.
Conducts thorough review cycles to guarantee all deliverables are highly accurate, strictly on-brand, and perfectly aligned with the unique voice and marketing objectives of each client.
SEO Analysis & Social Media Management

Executes target search engine optimization (SEO) research to map relevant keywords, digital traffic trends, and organic ranking opportunities.
Embeds localized SEO keywords and structured optimizations smoothly into ongoing written copy to elevate search engine indexing and organic user engagement.
Schedules, publishes, and monitors active audience interaction across Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn utilizing platform-native management layouts and external scheduling software.
Public Relations & Media Placement Operations

Researches, aggregates, and builds targeted, up-to-date media contact databases focusing on relevant United States publications and journalists.
Crafts compelling, direct-response pitch letters, media briefs, and professional press releases designed to capture journalist attention.
Runs systematic follow-up outreach workflows with targeted US media networks to maximize earned media placements, brand features, and public relations exposure for clients.
Qualifications, Skills, and Key Competencies

Required Qualifications

Education & Domain Foundation:

Bachelor's degree in Communication, Writing, Creative Writing, Journalism, Marketing, or a related field (highly preferred).
PR & Media Trajectory:

Proven professional experience in editorial content creation, direct PR copywriting, and active US media pitching campaigns.
Multi-Format Versatility:

Demonstrated portfolio evidence of writing successfully across multiple corporate formats (e.g., email marketing, landing page copy, social media hooks, and editorial blog articles).
Virtual Operations Fluency:

High comfort working within an entirely remote, asynchronous team environment across international time zones, utilizing project management tools such as Asana, Trello, or Notion.
Communication Command:

Elite verbal and written English communication skills characterized by flawless grammatical execution and an acute attention to creative detail.
Workplace Infrastructure:

Ownership of a highly reliable remote computer system, a secure and quiet workspace, and a stable high-speed internet connection.
Preferred Qualifications

Prior background working natively within a fast-paced, fast-growing PR agency or a professional digital journalism environment.
High AI-tool proficiency with a working knowledge of leveraging platforms like Claude, ChatGPT, or Perplexity to accelerate deep content ideation and keyword trend research.
Basic graphic design or asset layout experience utilizing visual software tools like Canva.
Benefits

Stable Hourly Compensation:

A reliable, fixed rate of $11.00 USD/hour within a structured 20-hour weekly commitment.
Flexible Autonomy:

Balance a steady part-time output while enjoying the geographical freedom of a 100% remote layout.
Creative Diversification:

Gain immense professional exposure handling a highly dynamic portfolio of distinct client profiles, industries, and target audiences.

Application Disclaimer: Please Read Before Proceeding

To ensure a fair and efficient hiring process, all applications must meet the mandatory requirements listed in the job description.

Voice/Video Recording is REQUIRED
Your application

CANNOT

be considered without a voice or video recording. It must be at least 30 seconds long and in

English . Submissions in any other language or missing a recording will be

automatically disqualified .

Mandatory Knockout Questions
Each application includes

knockout questions

designed to verify minimum qualifications required by the client. If you answer

"NO"

to any of these, you will be

immediately disqualified

from the hiring process for not having the experience requested for the role. Please note that the citizenship question is also a knockout if you answer "YES" as we are only able to hire Latin American talent based in Latin America.

Apply Wisely
To maintain fairness, please apply to

no more than three jobs

and only if you

fully meet the listed qualifications . Applying to roles you don't qualify for will not improve your chances and may affect future applications.

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We appreciate your interest and look forward to reviewing your application!