(05/12/2025)
St. Scholastica Catholic Church
Lecanto, FL
New Position Opening: Communications Specialist
Full-time position in our parish office for daily office duties, greeting visitors, answering the phone, helping steer them to the proper person. Confidentiality is of utmost importance and a positive, compassionate and friendly attitude with and ability to work well with others. The Ideal Candidate would be a natural storyteller that is passionate about creating content; a person that engages empathy, inspires connection and is able to work with a small staff as we discover and promote the unique emerging story of the parish.
Job Description:
- The Communication Specialist will work with our parish staff, to discover and to assist in the daily parish life and ministry in our front office.
- Using tools such as social media, email, our website, and other digital and traditional media tools to be implemented in order to bring the Gospel message to those whom we are sent.
- Experience and training are needed in order to create and manage excellent content.
- Work with a small parish team – in order that we may grow in alignment with our parish mission to be “Invitational, Formational, Sacramental” and to execute a results-driven social media strategy in alignment with an overall communication strategy.
- Write and prepare internal and external communications to support the various ministries of St. Scholastica.
- Write clear, concise, grammatically correct messages that are consistent with the values and the culture of St. Scholastica Community.
- Write and prepare branded email and texting campaigns to support the overall communications strategy.
Skills Needed:
- Collaborate with other members of the Parish Office Team to source appropriate assets that create a compelling and cohesive social media presence.
- Monitor and maintain social media channels, driving awareness, audience growth, reach and engagement. Moderate and respond to all user-generated content to drive engagement and maintain community standards.
- Continuously improve our social media presence by capturing and analyzing the appropriate social data and metrics, insights and best practices, and then acting on the information.
- Utilize paid marketing strategies to further the reach and influence of St. Scholastica Catholic Church in the digital space.
- Ability to successfully relate to people of all backgrounds, cultures and ages – in order to tell our story.
- Ability to clarify our parish mission and identity – in alignment with the Diocese of St. Petersburg and the overall mission of the Catholic Church.
- Awareness of the latest social media trends; this field requires a person to be a lifelong learner, with an interest to grow in one’s expertise.
- Proficiency needed in database management and media scheduling.
- Ability to work with creation tools and content management such as WordPress, Publisher, Canva, etc..
- Competency in copywriting, editing, social media marketing and analytics.
- Ability to learn from unsuccessful attempts, learn from ones experience, and to move forward, armed with new knowledge and a drive to do better.
- Responsible for completing own work on-time and with excellence.
- Generate, edit, publish and share daily content that builds meaningful connections and encourages community members to take action.
- Assist in maintaining and updating other instances of the St. Scholastica online presence, including our website, Google listings, and other digital formats as they are put into use, such as a St. Scholastica Catholic Church App.
Compensation and Benefits
- Full-time position with hourly pay commensurate with experience.
- Health Benefits to include Vision and Dental Insurance.
- Paid Holidays, sick leave and family leave.
Candidate must successfully complete a Level II FBI background screening and attend Safe Environment Training.
Interested candidate, please submit a cover letter and resume to Kathy Brasseur at operations@stscholastica.org