Job Description:

• Manages the Collegeâ™s editorial and social content calendar; tracks upcoming events/activities, key dates, and deadlines; and ensures a steady cadence of content throughout the year, including writing, editing, publishing, and monitoring social media content.
• Highlights large campus and student events such as Orientation Week and Convocation, including developing content for editorial and social media coverage.
• Conceptualizes, researches, writes, and publishes feature articles about student life, academics, student achievements, and College news.
• Recruits and hires student talent, and manages operations of the undergraduate College Editorial Team. This includes running weekly meetings, assigning story and social media coverage duties to students, and editing student-written features.
• Participates in weekly content meetings with the University Communications team, including providing updates on upcoming stories from the College.
• Connects with and fostering ongoing relationships with campus partners and uses institutional knowledge to identify relevant storylines, events, and news that can be leveraged across College channels.
• Curates and publishes quarterly e-newsletter to share top-line news and events taking place around the College with students, families, faculty, and staff.
• Maintains and assesses monthly College metrics and contributes to University Communications metrics reports.
• Ensures that the College website remains up to date, including developing copy and new pages for the site as needed and assisting/advising College partners with publishing updates to their respective pages on the site.
• Distributes mass emails of major announcements and helps facilitate email communications between the Dean of Students office and College students and families.
• Develops, plans, and disseminates information designed to keep the public informed of the organization's programs, accomplishments, or point of view.
• Solves moderate to complex problems related to the writing, preparation, and/or delivery of information from or about the unit.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelorâ™s degree in a related field, such as creative writing, journalism, marketing, English, or communications.

Experience:

• Background in journalism, public relations, or corporate communications.

Technical Skills or Knowledge:

• Familiarity with website content management and social media scheduling tools.
• Experience managing social media accounts.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Writing and editing skills.

Preferred Competencies

• Attention to organization and detail.
• Problem-solving abilities.
• Strong collaboration skills.
• Flexibility.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Work both independently and as part of a team.

Application Documents

• Resume/CV (required)
• Cover Letter (required)
• References Contact Information (3)(required)
• Writing Sample

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