Responsibilities

• Communications and Marketing Strategy and Planning
• Maintain situational awareness of the College's priorities by attending college and departmental meetings and events, both on one's own initiative and as directed by the Dean & his leadership team.
• Exercise professional judgment in planning strategies to effectively develop and carry out communications and marketing initiatives to promote the College's programs, student and faculty achievements, etc. to internal and external constituencies.
• Present those strategies to the Dean and, as appropriate, to members of the Dean's leadership team.
• Content Development and Management
• Serve as the primary point of contact/interface with the college's subject matter experts (department chairs, designated faculty, deans. etc.) to capture/draft & produce/edit information to be delivered through various communications outlets (e.g., college & university website(s), Jagwire, college newsletter, department webpages, social media, etc.).
• Schedule, coordinate, and implement communication and marketing meetings.
• Coordinate involvement of project team members, as necessary.
• Develop and execute external and internal communications that promote, enhance, and protect the profile of the College of Science and Mathematics and support implementation of our programs and activities.
• Create, coordinate, and select photography and videography for print and electronic communications.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in a related field and a minimum of three years of direct related communication/marketing experience.
• Excellent organizational, prioritization skills. Must confidentially, work independently and exercise sound judgement, high degree of professionalism, work well under pressure and manage deadlines.

Preferred

• Preferred Educational Qualifications
• Degree from an accredited college or university in marketing, communications, or related field.
• Additional Preferred Qualifications
• Demonstrated excellence in writing for publication, marketing and branding, web design and maintenance. Experience in newsletter/magazine production. Skills in photography, videography, and visual design. Demonstrated ability to work independently, work well under pressure, and manage deadlines successfully.
• Preferred Experience
• Customer service, visual design, marketing, web design, event planning, and project management.
• Abilities
• Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
• The communication strategist should be able to use standard software and other tools of the trade approved and endorsed by Communications and Marketing. For example: - Basic skills in PowerPoint, Poppulo, Carousel, Camtasia, newsletter formatting tools, etc. - Photography/Videography/Visual Design - Proficiency with the Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, PremierePro) and Acrobat Pro - Proficiency with basic web editing/publishing tasks - Proficiency with common social media platforms
• KNOWLEDGE

Benefits

• 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.