Associate Director Advancement Communications
Associate Director Advancement Communications
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Job Description
Brandeis University seeks to hire an Associate Director of Communications to oversee all editorial content created for Institutional Advancement marketing channels including websites email marketing publications and social media. Reporting to the executive director of advancement communications the associate director will collaborate within the IA communications team across the IA division and with the University Marketing Communications division along with other campus partners outside IA to advance fundraising and alumni engagement through effective and compelling marketing communications.
In this position there is the opportunity to work a hybrid schedule 3 days in the office and 2 days working remotely.
To apply please submit a cover letter and resume/CV.
Job Duties:
CONTENT STRATEGY
- Sets overall content strategy for IA in partnership with the executive director.
- Generate content ideas and repurposes existing content in order to create integrated marketing campaigns across channels
- Create and maintain story/content idea database
- Create and maintain editorial calendar(s)
- Build strong working relationships with clients and stakeholders across and outside Advancement so they regard team as trusted advisors.
WRITING
- Serves as lead writer for Institutional Advancement; personally writes highpriority projects
- Assigns writing assignments to staff and freelance writers; serves as editor and coach
- Writes content for all channels including websites broadcast email brochures appeals and more.
EDITING AND COACHING
- Edit the work of other IA writers.
- Educate colleagues and clients and advocate for engaging concise audiencefocused content
- Maintain and enforce IA editorial style guide
- Establish a proofreading process to ensure all communications are reviewed before they are published.
MANAGEMENT
- Supervise the Integrated Content Strategy Manager. Set annual goals and conduct annual performance reviews. Establish priorities and monitor work output.
- Serve as a mentor and coach to manager and other colleagues.
Requirements:
Bachelors degree in Communications Marketing or a related field required plus 58 years of relevant professional experience. At least 2 years experience supervising staff.
Additional Requirements:
- Experience in higher education preferred as well as knowledge of alumni relations and especially development/fundraising.
- Sophisticated versatile writer able to write compelling content for different audiences and different mediums (e.g. articles appeals brochures video social media). Able to seamlessly embed key marketing messages within content while telling engaging stories.
- Strategic mindset with demonstrated ability to align content choices and creation with organizational priorities.
- Ability to balance competing interests of internal stakeholders while putting our audiences first.
- Knowledge of best practices and trends in marketing communications. Curiosity and commitment to learning/growth.
- Experience working with graphic designers and photographers helpful
- Strong organizational interpersonal analytical and project management skills.
- Proficiency in office applications (Brandeis uses the Google Workspace suite and MS Office) with an ability to become comfortable and productive with our alumni and donor systems. (We recently converted to Ascend a Salesforce CRM for higher education.
- Demonstrates sound judgment and discretion when dealing with highly confidential information about alumni donors and other constituents.
- Must be willing and able to work occasional evenings and weekends as needed to cover events and/or meet deadlines.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Brandeis University is an equal opportunity employer which does not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of race color ancestry religious creed gender identity and expression national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation pregnancy age genetic information disability caste military or veteran status or any other category protected by law (also known as membership in a protected class)
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
