Writing and Editing Specialist, Office of Enrollment Marketing and Communications

Bloomington, IN (Hybrid)

$55K/yr – $60K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own OEM content strategy and editorial standards, collaborating with campus partners to develop targeted communications across channels and ensuring accuracy and brand consistency.

  • Own OEM content strategy and collaborate with campus partners
  • Guide editorial standards and maintain the OEM style guide
  • Ensure high-quality, accurate content across campaigns

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Contributes to and executes OEM content strategy, collaborating with OEM and campus partners to develop ideas and targeted communications.
  • Creates integrated, brand-aligned content across email, web, print, digital, social, and other marketing channels, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and adherence to IU style guidelines.
  • Works collaboratively with others when writing, editing, proofreading, and content production workflows, managing multiple projects and ensuring consistency across campaigns.
  • Provides editorial guidance, maintains the OEM style guide, and supports best practices in writing and communication.
  • Engages in ongoing professional development to stay current with marketing, communications, and editorial best practices.
  • Writes and edits clear, informative written content for various communications needs, audiences, and publication formats, assessing for relevance, accuracy, and appropriateness; tailors the degree of copyediting to a project's specific needs.
  • Corrects basic and complex grammar, spelling, punctuation, formatting, and syntax errors and performs edits that improve overall writing quality of communications and ensure alignment with university mission, strategies, objectives, and brand and accessibility guidelines.
  • Performs reviews of peer writing to ensure grammar, quality, tone, and level of depth are sufficient; may also review against requirements for specific publications, including content, length, brand guidelines, and deadline specifications.
  • Consults regularly with writers, printers, faculty, staff, and/or other stakeholders to ensure adherence to writing and publications deadlines.
  • Identifies user and audience needs and analyzes usage of existing content in order to identify content gaps; plans, develops, and publishes internal and external communications.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in English, communications, journalism, public relations, or related field.
  • 2 years in relevant field.
  • Proficient written and verbal communication skills.
  • Maintains a high degree of professionalism.
  • Demonstrates time management and priority setting skills.
  • Demonstrates a high commitment to quality.
  • Possesses flexibility to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty.
  • Highly thorough and dependable.
  • Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure.

Preferred

  • Demonstrates strong project management skills.
  • Thoroughly dependable.
  • Ability to meet deadlines under pressure.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental insurance
  • Health savings account with generous IU contributions
  • Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
  • Basic group life insurance paid by IU
  • Voluntary supplemental life, long-term disability, critical illness, and supplemental accidental death & dismemberment insurance
  • Base retirement plan with generous IU contributions, subject to vesting
  • Voluntary supplemental retirement plan options
  • Tuition subsidy for employees and family members taking IU courses
  • 10 paid holidays plus a paid winter break each year
  • Generous paid time off plans
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Indiana University Bloomington is the flagship residential, research-intensive campus of Indiana University. Its academic excellence is grounded in the humanities, arts and sciences, and a range of highly ranked professional programs. Founded in 1820, the campus serves more than 42,000 undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in more than 300 disciplines. Widely recognized for its global and international programs, outstanding technology and historic limestone campus, IU Bloomington serves as a global gateway for students and faculty members pursuing issues of worldwide significance.IU Bloomington facts: • Indiana University's flagship campus • Enrolls approx. 42,000 students • More than 350,000 alumni around the world • Nationally ranked and recognized schools for graduate and undergraduate studies, including the Kelley School of Business, Maurer School of Law, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Jacobs School of Music • Member of the Big Ten Conference • Nationally ranked NCAA sports teams with 24 national championships • More than 650 student organizations • Comprehensive perspective to education with more than 180 majors • Located in one of America’s greatest college towns

Bloomington, Indiana, USA
30K employees (684 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$55K/yr – $60K/yr

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Last Raise
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Funding History

  • Mar 2025
    Grant • $592.3K
  • Nov 2024
    Grant • $70K
  • Sep 2024
    Grant • $515K

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Monthly Visitors
6.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.4M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36.4%
Direct
55.8%
Referral
6.6%
Social
0.6%
Paid
0.5%

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Writing and Editing Specialist, Office of Enrollment Marketing and Communications

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