MEDIA RELATIONS SPECIALIST

Seattle, WA (Hybrid)

$69K/yr – $94K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own and oversee content production, marketing communications, and digital presence for the School, coordinating with the CAS team, managing site updates, and guiding student staff to ensure consistent, high‑quality communications.

  • Content creation, editing, and distribution across website, social, and print
  • Website management, brand consistency, and cross‑team collaboration
  • Supervision of 1–2 student employees and coordination with photographers and designers

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Content Production & Management (40%) Write, edit, and produce content for the School website, social media, quarterly e-newsletters, press releases, event promotions, faculty/student/alumni profiles, feature stories, fact sheets, award nominations, and other communications
  • Marketing & Communications Strategy (30%) Serve as the School's communications liaison with the College of Arts & Sciences communications team and represent the School at communications-related meetings. Ensure consistent messaging, editorial standards, and brand identity across print and digital communications.
  • Website & Digital Communications (25%) Manage the School website, ensuring content is accurate, current, accessible, and aligned with School goals and coordinate website improvements and technical updates with CAS web team. Coordinate with photographers, a student designer, and other creative contributors to produce high-quality visual content. Manage 1–2 student employees to support website & digital communications.
  • Other duties as assigned (5%)

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in communications, English, journalism, marketing or similar field.
  • 3 years marketing and/or communications experience with increasing scope and responsibility.
  • Applicants who do not meet these qualifications WILL NOT be forwarded to the Hiring Department.

Preferred

  • An interest in the disciplines of art, art history, and/or design.

Benefits

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University Of Washington

Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest state-supported institutions of higher education on the West Coast and is one of the preeminent research universities in the world. Located minutes from downtown Seattle, the main UW campus provides gorgeous views of the Cascade and Olympic mountain ranges and, every spring, attracts visitors from all over to world who come to witness the blooming of its cherry blossom trees.As the state’s flagship university, the UW serves more students than any other institution in the Northwest. In addition to its Seattle campus, the University has thriving campuses in Tacoma and Bothell and a robust professional and continuing education program. Anyone can enjoy and be enriched by all the UW has to offer, including world-class libraries, art, music, drama, sports and the highest quality medical care in Washington state.Being public also means being engaged with our communities, and through knowledge and discovery we are elevating the quality of lives of others.

Founded in 2010
Seattle, Washington, USA
32K employees (527 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$69K/yr – $94K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$56.3M
Last Raise
$45M
Grant, 7 years ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2019
    Grant • $45M
  • Apr 2018
    Grant • $11.3M
  • Jan 2013
    Series Unknown

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$334.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
41.1%
Direct
50.3%
Referral
7.4%
Social
0.6%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~31.7K

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MEDIA RELATIONS SPECIALIST

University Of Washington · Seattle, WA · Hybrid