Responsibilities

• The Communications Specialist I writes and edits communications for a department, college, and/or division under general supervision.
• Develops and implements plans, activities, and tactics to support the goals of assigned areas.
• Coordinates the production of materials and resources through a variety of platforms, including digital and physical mediums.
• Works in collaboration with the Division of Strategic Communications.
• Responsible for the creation and support of print, video, social media, and web-based communications that promote and are descriptive of the Honors College and its programs.
• Responsible for developing, organizing, maintaining, and archiving text, photo, and video content for the Honors College website; monitoring the day-to-day quality of web content, including making daily updates to the website-including a transition to Word Press platform; and writing, editing, and publishing social media content as well as monitoring analytics.
• Tasks will include writing, editing, and proofreading; editing photos, and designing and executing various targeted communications.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and some journalism, public relations, marketing, or communications experience.
• Experience using web software programs, such as Wordpress, Canva, Adobe, MS Office 365, Mail Chimp, and social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

Preferred

• Master’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, English, Marketing, Advertising, or other closely related field.
• One or more year of experience writing website content.