Communication Specialist, College of Business

Responsibilities

• Implement the College of Business’s communications strategy across appropriate print, digital, social media, and other communication channels.
• Develop and distribute press releases, media pitches, feature stories, announcements, newsletters, and other written communications highlighting the College’s faculty, students, programs, research, partnerships, events, and accomplishments.
• Manage and create content for the College’s social media channels, including developing editorial calendars, writing posts, creating visual content, monitoring engagement, and identifying opportunities to increase the College’s reach and visibility.
• Prepare and publish a quarterly College of Business newsletter for faculty, staff, students, and alumni.
• Develop graphics, promotional materials, presentations, digital content, and other visual communications consistent with University and College branding standards.
• Identify compelling stories and communications opportunities throughout the College by developing relationships with faculty, staff, students, alumni, and external partners.
• Coordinate with faculty and staff to gather information, photographs, quotes, and other materials necessary to develop accurate and compelling communications.
• Support communications related to the College’s external partnerships, Corporate Partners Program, student and faculty achievements, research, experiential learning, community engagement, and societal impact initiatives.
• Maintain and organize digital communications assets, including photographs, graphics, logos, templates, and other promotional materials.
• Coordinate with the university’s Office of Public Relations and Marketing and other university offices to ensure College communications are consistent with university policies, branding standards, and broader institutional communications.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations, journalism, marketing, graphic design, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience developing written and visual content for professional, organizational, or institutional audiences.
• Excellent writing, editing, proofreading, and storytelling skills.
• Experience managing social media platforms and developing content for multiple audiences.
• Demonstrated graphic design skills and proficiency with commonly used graphic design and digital content creation tools.

Preferred

• Familiarity with photography, video, web content management, email marketing, or other digital communications tools is desirable.