Robotics Communications Manager

Responsibilities

• Communications Strategy and Counsel: Develop and implement the department's communications and marketing strategy with the chair and leadership team.
• Content Creation and Storytelling: Generate research news, materials and publications.
• Digital Platforms, Web, and Infrastructure: Manage the department's social media strategy, editorial calendar, publishing, and performance reporting.
• Reputation, Recognition, and Recruitment: Develop materials for award nominations, recruitment and outreach activities, and other department publicity.
• Outreach and Department Operations: Provide support of department events, media, and communication tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a communications-related field or equivalent experience.
• Communications experience spanning strategy, digital platforms, and multimedia content.
• Excellent writing and editing skills, including translating technical information for broad audiences.
• Website development and social media experience.
• Strong project management, judgment, discretion, and collaboration skills.
• The successful candidate should have experience with, or the ability to learn, Adobe Creative Cloud-especially Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro; Git-based version control and cloud-hosting platforms, such as GitHub and Netlify; web content management systems; email marketing and newsletter platforms; social media publishing and analytics tools; photography, video, and audio production equipment; collaboration platforms, including Slack, shared calendars and drives, mailing lists, and online forms; web analytics, accessibility, search optimization, and site-quality tools.

Preferred

• Experience in higher education, robotics, research, or another complex organization.
• Background in media relations, crisis and executive communications, reputation management, award nominations, and recruitment or admissions campaigns.
• Familiarity with web accessibility, search optimization, audience analytics, content management systems, web hosting, Git-based version control, and digital platform maintenance.