BP – Business Writer, US – Washington DC
Job title: Business Writer, US
Company: BP
Job description: Travel required
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About BP
COMMUNICATIONS & ADVOCACY
Communications & advocacy (C&A) exists to enhance bp's reputation and create value for its businesses. Can you win hearts and minds by engaging with staff and society, communicating our purpose and our progress, as well as campaigning for net zero and actively advocating for well-designed climate policies? If so, you're in the right place.
Join us and help us achieve our goals by:
- enhancing our reputation and brand to support our purpose and ambition
- sharing our net zero ambition and aims, using our relationships and influence to help the world get to net zero
- being disciplined, creative and bold as we execute our campaigns to reimagine energy, reinvent ourselves and perform while transforming
- fostering a favourable external environment that supports our businesses now, and in the future
- strengthening relationships with a wider base of stakeholders and mobilising their support
- training, equipping and mobilising our staff and alumni as advocates
- preparing for and responding effectively to unforeseen events and challenges
Communications & External Affairs Group
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Job Profile Summary
One of bp's Communications & External Affairs (C&EA) team's core communication channels is 'In the Know' (also known as ITK). ITK is a daily news email sent to approximately 40,000 bp colleagues and partners. Every day, a small in-house team researches and writes stories for ITK so that readers benefit from receiving a summary of bp and energy industry news delivered directly to their inbox!
Time Type
Full time
Job Advert
We are looking for a skilled US-based writer to join the ITK team, which is made up of two full-time London-based writers and this person. The successful candidate will be located in Houston, Chicago, or Washington, DC.
Key accountabilities:
- Develop written content that covers internal and external news from bp and the wider energy industry in ITK's 'smart brevity' format, focusing both on immediate stories to run in the next day's edition and longer-term pieces. Smart brevity is a concise format that's used by a range of news brands and journalists to quickly and clearly communicate essential news and explain its impact on readers.
- Collaborate with bp C&EA colleagues and business leaders to capture input, agree on messaging and seek approvals before stories are published.
- Attend events, webcasts and townhalls-style meetings to report back key findings for stories.
- Search for news pieces across multiple media to select the most relevant to appear in ITK.
- Research trends across key areas to bp and in the wider energy industry.
You'll enjoy a challenge as it's likely to be a steep learning curve, using your incredible research skills to learn about new topics at short notice so you're able to write knowledgably about them.
Candidates must be prepared to work flexible hours. A typical week will be around 40 hours, but work may extend past 5pm. Occasional weekend work may be required to prepare for business announcements that need to be communicated in Monday morning's edition.
Other skills we are looking for:
- Excellent writing skills, particularly taking complex business information and converting it into easily understood messages for different audiences in different regions.
- The ability to operate and thrive in a fast paced, complex environment, sometimes with limited information or access to key individuals.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to multitask and to plan for both the next day's edition as well as weeks ahead.
- The ability to prioritize to enable balancing of workload with the thoughtful and respectful management of the expectations of multiple partners.
- Strong teamwork, and networking skills are a must to forge positive relationships at all levels within bp.
There are many aspects of our employees' lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!
Experience Level
Intermediate
Expected salary:
Location: Washington DC
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