Responsibilities

• Lead the development of creative concepts and signature stories, ensuring every piece of content is both on brand and on strategy.
• Write and edit high-impact content across a wide range of media channels, including web, digital campaigns, video, social, and print.
• Demonstrate mastery of interviewing, research and narrative-building, distilling complex, informative ideas into compelling, human-centered storytelling.
• Collaborate with designers, strategists and stakeholders to bring bold creative ideas to life that achieve measurable results.
• Elevate the work of the team by mentoring early career writers, providing constructive feedback and contributing to a culture of creative excellence.
• Contribute to process and project leadership, helping guide and improve writer and collaboration processes.
• This senior position is a hybrid role that requires travel (up to 25%) to campus and other external locations for work-related assignments and team meetings as necessary.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, marketing, English, advertising, public relations or related field.
• Five (5) years of professional writing experience
• Experience writing across digital mediums, including long-form story writing and complementary social media copy to promote these pieces
• Significant experience and comfort conducting interviews with subject-matter experts
• Experience conducting thorough research that contributes to in-depth storytelling
• Understanding of writing applications in traditional and emerging storytelling platforms
• Demonstrated ability to adapt copywriting style to various audiences, purposes or media
• Proficient in AP Style
• Strong organizational abilities, including time and resource management
• Proficient expertise in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and willingness to become proficient in other software

Preferred

• External or in-house agency experience.