Responsibilities

• Identifies stories about university initiatives, accomplishments, and achievements that warrant internal or external promotion; conceptualizes and produces compelling print and multimedia content for digital platforms, including writing, video, photos, and graphics.
• Serves as a liaison for institutional priority areas, proactively communicating news of interest to the broader community; prepares AU experts for interviews, including helping to hone clear, effective messaging and staffing interviews.
• Works with local, regional and national media to obtain news coverage for the university; crafts media pitches and news releases and coordinates news coverage for events; takes after-hours calls and serves as a point of contact with the media in the event of an emergency
• Maintains current digital and media relations knowledge. Uses a project management system on a daily basis to document and track projects from beginning to end.
• Perform all other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Communication, Journalism, Marketing, or related field and minimum of 3 years of professional communications experience.

Preferred

• Master's degree from an accredited college or university and three plus years of relevant experience.

Benefits

• Augusta University offers a variety of benefits to full-time benefits-eligible employees and some of our half-time (or more) employees. Benefits that may be elected could include health insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, Teachers Retirement System (or Optional Retirement Plan), as well as earned vacation time, sick leave, and 13 paid holidays. Also, our full-time employees who have been employed with us successfully for more than 6 months can be considered for the Tuition Assistance Program. Consider applying with us today!