Responsibilities

• Develop and implement creative, broad, tactical communication and/or marketing plans and approaches (e.g., online or print media, giveaways, radio/television) to increase visibility of the area’s programs and initiatives.
• Participate in strategic planning and assist in defining and formulating key messages and identifying overall communication and marketing approaches.
• Provide consultation and advice to program leadership on a variety of communications and marketing needs.
• Write and edit communication and marketing materials, including speeches, presentations, news releases, etc. on behalf of area leadership.
• May have media responsibility for media contact based on overall needs of the area and the internal resources available.
• Manage the communications and marketing team within area of oversight, including supervision of non-exempt and/or exempt staff.
• Provide vision, leadership and counsel for communications and marketing efforts, including overseeing an integrated communications plan.
• Create original content such as web content and e-newsletters across a variety of platforms, based on the overall needs of the area and the internal resources available.
• Formulate and manage a comprehensive media relations strategy and program at the local, state and national levels to garner coverage in print, television, radio, online and social media outlets, in collaboration with other internal resources.
• Provide fiscal oversight of internal and external stakeholder communications, marketing, and media plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Five years of related experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education permitted by the JHU equivalency formula beyond high school diploma/ graduation equivalent

Preferred

• Experience managing multi-channel communications campaigns and audience segmentation strategies; CRM systems (e.g. Salesforce); email marketing + marketing automation platforms (e.g. Salesforce Marketing Cloud, MailChimp, Acoustic); Analytics tools (e.g. Google Analytics, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, SproutSocial); Project management platforms (e.g. Slack, Asana, Teams); Paid social media advertising (e.g. Meta, LinkedIn)
• Salesforce + Salesforce Marketing Cloud; Website development tools (e.g. Drupal, WordPress); Design tools (e.g. Canva, Adobe Suite); text-based marketing platforms (e.g. Scale to Win)
• Attendance at Alumni Weekend (Spring) and Leadership Weekend (Fall) as well as occasional attendance at other signature events is required