Responsibilities

• Partner directly with the CADC Dean to define and execute a communications strategy aligned with capital campaign priorities, facilities planning, and institutional repositioning, serving as a senior advisor on institutional messaging and public positioning.
• Lead the college’s marketing, communications, public relations, and external engagement initiatives across all schools and programs.
• Serve as a strategic advisor on messaging related to advancement, major gifts, naming opportunities, and donor engagement.
• Work in partnership with the Dean, external strategy consultants, and university partners to steward the development and implementation of a college-wide brand identity system.
• Strengthen relationships with alumni, industry partners, and key stakeholders through thoughtfully designed programming, events, and communications.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for media inquiries and collaborate closely with Auburn University’s central Office of Communications and Marketing.
• Shape and communicate narratives around the college’s research, design, and outreach-situating faculty and student work within broader disciplinary and public conversations across print, digital, video, social, exhibition, and public programming platforms.
• Provide strategic oversight for the CADC website and digital platforms, guiding the design and implementation of a new college website while ensuring clarity, coherence and alignment with broader communications priorities.
• Oversee the launch and cultivation of CADC PRESS, advancing publication initiatives that promote, circulate, and archive faculty and student work.
• Provide leadership, mentorship, and professional development for the college’s communications team, including designers, writers, and student staff.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Public Relations, Communications, Marketing, or related field.
• 10 years of experience in external relations and communications industry related to academic, media, marketing, and/or public relations.
• 2 years of experience supervising full time employees.
• Typical salaries will fall between $118,000 – $137,000.

Preferred

• Demonstrated fluency in design culture and the ability to communicate across creative, technical, and construction fields.
• Exceptional writing and editorial judgment, able to articulate complex ideas clearly and persuasively.
• Experience leading multi-platform storytelling across digital, print, video, and emerging media.
• Experience supporting advancement and campaign communications in academic, cultural, or design-driven organizations.
• Capacity to operate strategically and tactically within a dynamic, intellectually rigorous, multidisciplinary environment.
• Established relationships with media and communication outlets.