Responsibilities

• Researches, develops, and writes clear, accurate, and compelling content related to CECS academic programs, emerging technologies, innovation, workforce development, and industry and community partnerships.
• Identifies and translates technical, academic, and specialized subject matter into accessible and engaging content tailored to technical, academic, executive, student, industry, and public audiences.
• Develops feature stories, news articles, program descriptions, technical summaries, reports, executive communications, web content, newsletters, fact sheets, talking points, presentations, and other materials.
• Conducts interviews with faculty, students, staff, industry partners, and other subject-matter experts to develop stories showcasing CECS programs, accomplishments, expertise, and impact.
• Conducts background research and fact-checking to ensure accuracy, credibility, and consistency across college communications.
• Proactively identifies opportunities to highlight and showcase CECS achievements, faculty expertise, student success, innovation, partnerships, and external impact.
• Develops and writes communications involving external organizations, including industry partners, government agencies, educational partners, research organizations, national laboratories, and community partners.
• Performs substantive editing, rewriting, copyediting, and proofreading of technical and nontechnical materials produced throughout the college.
• Reviews content for accuracy, clarity, organization, readability, consistency, grammar, tone, and alignment with university and college standards.
• Works with subject-matter experts to verify technical content while ensuring materials remain accessible to their intended audiences.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in professional writing, journalism, communications, English, marketing, public relations, or a related field required.
• A minimum of 3 years of professional experience in content writing, journalism, or communications.
• Demonstrated experience writing, analyzing, and editing complex information for both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Experience conducting interviews, performing background research, and working with subject-matter experts.
• Demonstrated experience producing content for multiple communication formats and audiences.
• Exceptional professional writing, editing, proofreading, research, and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to understand complex technical or specialized subject matter and translate it into clear, concise, audience-appropriate language.
• Strong interviewing skills and the ability to work effectively with faculty, subject-matter experts, administrators, students, and external partners.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy, particularly when communicating technical or data-driven information.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, competing priorities, and deadlines in a fast-paced and rapidly evolving environment.

Preferred

• Master's degree in communications, professional writing, journalism, English, marketing, public relations, or a related field preferred.
• More than 5 years of experience writing about science, technology, engineering, computing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data science, emerging technologies, or interdisciplinary research.
• Experience working in higher education, research, government, a national laboratory, technology organization, or other technically focused environment.
• Experience developing communications, technical reports, executive-level materials, grant-related content, or externally facing institutional publications.
• Experience with web content management systems, Adobe Creative Cloud, digital publishing platforms, or similar communications tools.
• Experience developing visual representations of complex information, including infographics, diagrams, data visualizations, or presentation materials.
• Familiarity with UT’s written content guidelines and accessibility and digital-content best practices.