Public Affairs Coordinator

Your Job

INVISTA is seeking an experienced Public Affairs Coordinator to join our Public Sector team. In this role, you will help shape our company’s reputation as a trusted community partner and industry leader. You will drive strategic public affairs initiatives that foster community relations and employee engagement at U.S. sites, while being a part of a dynamic global team. This position is based in Houston, Texas, and requires some travel to other U.S. sites.

The successful candidate will have excellent writing and proofreading skills, crisis communications training and experience, an ability to manage and execute multiple projects in a timely manner, strong relationship-building skills, and a passion for principled entrepreneurship.

What You Will Do

• Incident Response/Crisis Communications: Act as a key crisis management team member, ensuring 24/7 swift responses to leaders, community, government, and media. Align strategies with public affairs and government affairs, update response plans, and stay informed on best practices. Proactively address potential issues that could impact our sites.
• Media Relations: Serve as a company spokesperson. Build relationships with reporters and editors, craft compelling stories that highlight our values, facilitate interviews, and track media coverage. Share relevant industry news with leadership.
• Community Engagement: Develop programs and volunteer opportunities in entrepreneurship, education, environment, and community enrichment. Foster community connections, measure progress, seek recognition opportunities, and participate in events. Manage social media strategies and platforms.
• Administration: Manage budgets and expenses, submit purchase orders, and maintain relationships with accounting contacts.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• 5+ years of public affairs, corporate communications, corporate social investment, nonprofit, stakeholder relations, or related experience
• Training and experience in incident response/crisis communications
• Project management experience
• Experience developing and implementing public affairs strategies and programs
• Experience crafting successful social media strategies
• Ability to travel 10-20% of the time to other sites as well as work occasional evenings and weekends, as needed
• This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Affairs, Communications, Journalism, or a related field
• Chemicals and/or energy industry experience
• Experience with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and digital communications tools, including video, social media, Adobe Creative Suite, SharePoint, or other web-based applications

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value, and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, INVISTA has a long history of working to make the world around you a better place. From parts for the automotive industry to medical equipment, airbags, food packaging, and clothing, our ingredients in the nylon 6,6 and polypropylene value chains help bring many of life’s essential products to market.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength—focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria are set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy, or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information.

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