# Media Relations Specialist **Company**: Georgia Power **Location**: Atlanta **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: mid **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: Competitive salary and benefits package **Category**: Communications **Industry**: Utilities **Apply**: https://emje.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/SouthernCompanyJobs/job/18625?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_aca0a4a8-da3 ## Description Georgia Power is seeking a strategic and highly capable Media Relations Specialist to help shape how our company is understood by customers, communities, and stakeholders across the state. This role plays a critical part in protecting and enhancing Georgia Power's reputation by building trusted relationships with news media, supporting proactive storytelling, and responding effectively during high visibility and time-sensitive moments. The success of this role depends on the candidate's ability to build and maintain relationships within the business across the state. The ideal candidate brings strong news judgment, excellent writing and interpersonal skills, and a desire to deeply understand the business to translate complex operational work into clear, credible stories. **Key Responsibilities** ### Media Relations & Spokesperson Support - Serve as a day-to-day media contact for assigned topics, regions, or business units, working closely with the media relations manager and senior communications leaders - Respond to inbound media inquiries with accuracy, urgency, and sound judgment, including during storms, emergencies, or emerging issues - Participate in an on-call media rotation and tracking 24 hours a day, seven days a week when scheduled and during emergencies/storms. ### Proactive Story Development & Pitching - Develop and pitch proactive, hyperlocal story ideas that reflect Georgia Power's operational priorities, community investments, reliability efforts, and customer benefits - Maintain a forward-looking pipeline of story opportunities informed by ongoing engagement with internal partners - Identify emerging media trends, seasonal moments, and news hooks to recommend timely outreach ### Business Immersion & Internal Partnership - Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders across operations, reliability, customer service, generation, transmission, and community engagement - Regularly engage with assigned business units through meetings, site visits, and time in the field to surface authentic, credible story ideas - Serve as a communications partner who understands the business well enough to anticipate opportunities and risks ### Issues, Crisis & Event Communications - Support reactive communications during storms, outages, regulatory developments, or other high-profile issues - Assist in drafting statements, FAQs, talking points, and background materials under tight deadlines - Support media engagement around major announcements, infrastructure projects, and public events ### Executive & Subject Matter Support - Help prepare leaders and subject matter experts for media interviews by developing background briefs, anticipated Q&A, and reporter profiles - Provide clear, trusted counsel on messaging, tone, and interview dynamics ### Content, Tracking & Measurement - Draft and edit press releases, media advisories, newsroom stories, and briefing materials - Track media coverage, pitch outcomes, and relationship activity to inform future strategy and continuous improvement **Success in This Role Looks Like:** - Proactive media coverage is generated consistently through strong pitching and sustained reporter relationships - A healthy, forward-looking story pipeline exists for assigned regions or business units - Internal partners view this role as a trusted communications advisor who understands their work and helps tell their story - Media inquiries are handled accurately, promptly, and professionally,even in high-pressure situations - Relationships with reporters are strong enough that Georgia Power is seen as a credible, responsive, and reliable source - Field engagement and business immersion regularly result in compelling, operationally grounded stories - Media efforts clearly connect Georgia Power's work to customer benefit, reliability, and community impact ## Skills ### Required - media relations - communications - public relations - writing - interpersonal skills - news judgment - story development - pitching - business immersion - internal partnership - issues management - crisis communications - event planning - executive support - content creation - tracking and measurement ### Nice to have - spokesperson experience - utilities industry knowledge - on-camera interview experience - crisis communications experience - knowledge of Georgia media markets --- Source: [Apply at emje.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com](https://emje.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/SouthernCompanyJobs/job/18625?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)