Responsibilities

• The Senior Writer is a senior-level administrative position that reports directly to the Chancellor and will oversee the implementation of special PR projects, operations and communication functions of the Chancellor’s Office.
• Prepare internal and external correspondence for the Chancellor.
• Develop and edit materials related to reports, such as press releases, video scripts, and blog posts.
• Bring complex ideas and concepts to life through presentations which complement and support a public speaker on-stage.
• Keep up with current issues in labor economics and higher education to accurately reflect those issues in publications, as needed.
• Perform substantive editing, copy editing, and proofreading, as well as reviews and reorganize drafts, provide writing assistance, and rewrite portions of drafts.
• Partner with the Communications department to set editorial strategy, ensuring that content and tone is on brand and of the highest writing and editorial quality.
• Manage and organize the process of writing and editing publications.
• Collaborate with senior staff and lead support staff to coordinate publication production.
• Manage and review the proofreading of reports and other writing projects in various stages of production.