About Fordham:

Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering an exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 16,000 students in its nine colleges and schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in West Harrison, N.Y., the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre in the United Kingdom.

The University offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts; retirement plans; life insurance; short and long-term disability; employee assistance program (EAP); tuition remission; and generous time off.

Successful candidates should have a knowledge of and commitment to the goals of Jesuit Education.

Department: Development Office

Campus: Lincoln Center (LC) - NYC

Position Summary:

Essential Functions:

• Pitches local and national media stories about Fordham.
• Serves as primary contact for media relations; responsible for day-to-day media relations pitches and media requests.
• Helps promote the University via a comprehensive media relations program in print, broadcast, online, and social media.
• Develops and coordinates public media placements/pitches with senior director of communications.
• Supervises the assistant director of media relations.
• Keeps senior director and AVP informed of potentially controversial subject matter in the media.
• Oversees production of and edits weekly media mentions report (Rams in the News) to the University community.
• Supervises contract and internal public relations staff and assigns pitching responsibilities.
• Serves as liaison to television and film production crews.
• Works with the senior director and outside Public Relations counsel to create and execute media relations plan.
• Maintains a database of earned media mentions and produces annual media mentions summary by school and the Faculty of Arts & Sciences.
• Participates as a senior member of crisis communications team requiring on-call emergency status.
• Develops and maintains relationships with media contacts and internal clients. Identifies and cultivates targeted media contacts; contributes to and maintains media contact database.
• Attends University events and facilitates media access to campus events and facilities.
• Travels inter-campus as needed.
• Support's faculty members in writing byliners and op-eds with editorial and media relations guidance
• Oversees faculty expert database.
• Advises academic departments of relevant news opportunities; keeps departmental webmasters advised of relevant content.
• Support's development and alumni relations with story ideas and placements that reach prospective donors and DMAs with significant concentrations of alumni

Required Qualifications:

• Baccalaureate Degree in journalism, communications, or other related field.
• Minimum 10 years media and/or media relations experience.
• Demonstrated media placement ability.
• Strong news writing and pitching skills.
• Working knowledge of MAC platform Microsoft Word.
• No candidate will be considered without media placement clips.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience with Web-based media and promotion.

Special Instructions for Applicant:

• No candidate will be considered without media placement clips.

EEO Statement:

Fordham University is committed to excellence through diversity and welcomes candidates of all backgrounds.

Fordham is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories