Assistant Director of Communications, Division of Communications and Marketing - UT System Administration

Knoxville, TN (On-site)

$60K/yr – $70K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 7 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and guide the University of Tennessee System AARSS communications program, serving as the primary account lead and shaping multi-channel campaigns, media relations, executive writing, and content strategy in collaboration with senior partners.

Media relations support
Campaign development
Web and content strategy

Job Description

Responsibilities

Leads high-level communications strategy, planning and execution support primarily for the University of Tennessee System Division of Academic Affairs, Research and Student Success (AARSS).
This position serves as the primary communications account lead for AARSS and is responsible for planning, developing and delivering integrated, multi-channel communications and marketing strategies and content that advance system priorities.
The assistant director reports to and provides key strategic support to the director of communications and works closely with senior system and campus partners to ensure messaging alignment, consistency and impact.
Responsibilities include media relations support, executive-level writing, campaign development, web and content strategy, and oversight of communications workflows and student interns.
This role requires flexibility, strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple high-visibility priorities in a fast-paced, complex environment.

Requirements

This role requires a strong writer and strategic communicator capable of translating complex academic, research and student success initiatives into clear, compelling messaging for a wide variety of audiences.
The position requires a high degree of independent judgment and the ability to shape communications strategy, campaign direction, messaging and creative approach across deliverables.
This role serves in an advisory capacity to division leadership on communications strategy, messaging and risk considerations, including support for issues and crisis communications as needed.
media relations support, executive-level writing, campaign development, web and content strategy, and oversight of communications workflows and student interns.

Preferred

strong writer and strategic communicator capable of translating complex academic, research and student success initiatives into clear, compelling messaging for a wide variety of audiences.
ability to shape communications strategy, campaign direction, messaging and creative approach across deliverables.
The position requires a high degree of independent judgment and the ability to shape communications strategy, campaign direction, messaging and creative approach across deliverables.

University of Tennessee

The University of Tennessee is a public land-grant university headquartered at Knoxville. Founded in 1794, it is the flagship institution of the statewide University of Tennessee system with nine undergraduate departments and eleven graduate departments and hosts more than 26,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries. In its 2009 ranking of universities, U.S. News & World Report ranked UT 118th among national universities and 52nd among public institutions of higher learning. Its ties to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, established under UT President Andrew Holt and continued under the UT-Battelle partnership, have positioned the University as co-manager and allow for considerable research opportunities for faculty and students enjoyed by few other institutions of comparable standing.Also affiliated with the University are the Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy, the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, and the University of Tennessee Arboretum, which occupies 250 acres of nearby Oak Ridge, Tennessee and features hundreds of species of plants indigenous to the region. The University is a direct partner of the University of Tennessee Medical Center, the only Level I trauma center in the East Tennessee region and a self-proclaimed 'teaching hospital' due to its aggressive medical research programs and position as the primary career destination for most medical school graduates of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center at Memphis.

Founded in 1913

USA

6K employees (267 in marketing)

www.utk.edu