Job Description:

Unit: Center Administration

Location: Cambridge, MD

Job Category Status: Exempt Regular

Job Duties:

• Supports senior management in achieving the aims and objectives outlined within the UMCES overall mission to lead the way toward better management of Maryland's natural resources and the protection and restoration of the Chesapeake Bay, provides sound advice to help state and national leaders manage the environment, and prepare future scientists to meet the global challenges of the 21stcentury.
• Develops and manages the University's marketing strategy to increase visibility across key public constituencies.
• Oversees the University's media relations strategy and promotes scientific findings to policymakers and the general public by working with key regional and national environmental reporters and editors.
• Coordinates press releases on major research, news, and events that support UMCES' strategic
  communications priorities.
• Connects faculty experts with reporters and provides media training to faculty for interviews with print, broadcast, and onlinejournalists.
• Serves as final editor of news releases, publications, e-newsletter, brochures, reports, correspondence, ads, invitations, programs, speeches, presentations and other documents.
• Manages UMCES digital profile including the website, UMCES.edu, UMCES' social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn), and Constant Contact to drive engagement with our audiences.
• Manages the conceptualization, design, and production of annual publications, collateral, and central communications products. This includes managing the outsourcing of creative services.
• Manages the University's brand and provides campus communications partners with strategic
  communications counsel and brand resources.
• Manages the University's reputation management and crisis communications plan and responses.
• Serves as key member of crisis communications team providing leadership on campus crisis and emergency communications.
• Supports presidential communications, including preparing public remarks and communications.
• Supports Advancement in the development of donor communications.
• Assists in producing UMCES events and associated collateral, such as Commencement, legislative receptions, and institutional celebrations.
• Serves as institutional communications liaison to the University System of Maryland Communications.

Minimum Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications :

EEO Statement:

The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science is an equal opportunity employer. The Center's policies, programs, and activities are in conformance with pertinent Federal and State laws and regulations on nondiscrimination regarding race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, and disability. Inquiries regarding compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended; Title IX of the Educational Amendments; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; or related legal requirements should be directed to the Director of Human Relations, Center Administration, P.O. Box 775, Cambridge, MD 21613.

Salary Range: $90,000 to $115,000

Additional Information:

About University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Beginning with Reginald Truitt's dockside laboratory in 1925, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science has traveled the road to discovery. For more than 80 years, UMCES students, researchers and faculty have gathered information and developed theories that have helped improve society's scientific understanding of the environment. By sharing this newfound knowledge on important issues such as fisheries management, ecosystem health and climate change, the Center has had an undeniable impact on the way we think about the natural world. As Maryland's premier research institution aimed at advancing scientific knowledge of the environment, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science is one of twelve institutions within the University System of Maryland.

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