Assistant Director, Marketing & Communications

Agency

Department

What we want

The School of Law is seeking an innovative and driven Assistant Director of Marketing & Communications to join our vibrant team! In this role youll lead the planning development and execution of compelling content and impactful projects. Youll coordinate seamlessly with internal colleagues and external partners to bring our marketing and communications vision to life ensuring the smooth operation of our departments diverse functions and contributing to the achievement of our strategic goals.

What you need to know

Salary: $69000 $74000 (Compensation will be commensurate to selected hires experience)

Cover Letter and Resume: A cover letter and resume are strongly recommended

Note: Flexibility to work some evenings and weekends throughout the year

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelors degree in communications or equivalent combination of education and experience

• Six years of marketing and/or communication experience (planning and producing a variety of materials and projects)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in marketing communications or public relations

• Experience building and maintaining processes and systems to support marketing and communications efforts

• Some prior supervisory experience

• Experience managing and project management platforms/systems

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud applications preferred

• Proficiency with email marketing CRM and CMS platforms (HubSpot or similar)

• Proficiency with communications project management and collaboration platforms (similar to Trello Wrike Monday MS Teams Slack etc.)

• Knowledge of paid and organic social media management best practices and tools. Ability to own projects while cheerfully collaborating and adjusting to shifting priorities

Responsibilities

Planning and Implementation:

• Establishes and maintains processes systems and workflows to ensure cohesive operations within the department to achieve strategic communications and marketing goals

• Develops marketing and communications plans and distributes content that serves the strategic goals of the School of Law such as reputational and promotional campaigns media/PR paid and organic social media planning and implementation event promotion etc.

• Creates and collaborates in producing content (writing editing designing distribution) as necessary to ensure timely execution and quality

• Conducts analyses of marketing efforts and makes recommendations to ensure effectiveness

• Collaborates on budget planning and management under the Senior Directors supervision

Internal Facilitation and Collaboration:

• Serves as a catalyst and point of contact for faculty program directors staff students and others to ensure the smooth flow of highvalue content from discovery to distribution

• Leads scheduling coordination and implementation of content and requests from across the schools faculty and various departments to support communications and marketing objectives

• Coordinates with internal and external partners such as digital content managers designers illustrators writers and developers

• In collaboration with Senior Director and others evaluates vendors negotiates rates makes purchase design and production decisions

IntraFunction Support:

• Supports event management and alumni relations efforts including communications and promotion for and attendance at events

• Supports internal (faculty staff student) communications in collaboration with other functions: IT HR Student Affairs the Deans office etc.

• Manages special projects as assigned by the Senior Director

Why Texas A&M University

We are a prestigious university with strong traditions Core Values and a community of caring and collaboration. Amenities associated with a major university such as sporting and cultural events stateoftheart recreation facilities the Bush Library and Museum and much more await you. Experience all that a big city has to offer but with a reasonable costofliving and no long commutes.

• Medical prescription drug dental vision life and AD&D flexible spending accounts and longterm disability insurance with Texas A&M contributing to employee health and basic life premiums

• 1215 days of annual paid holidays

• Up to eight hours of paid sick leaveand at leasteight hours of paid vacationeach month

• Automatic enrollment in theTeacher Retirement System of Texas

• Health and Wellness: Free exercise programs and release time

• Professional Development: All employees have access to freeLinkedIn Learningtraining webinars and limited financial support to attend conferences workshops and more

• Educational release time and tuition assistancefor completing a degree while a Texas A&M employee

• Living Well a program at Texas A&M that has been built by employees for employees

Our Commitment

Texas A&M University is committed to enriching the learning and working environment by promoting a culture that respects all perspectives talents & lived experiences. Embracing varying opinions and perspectives strengthens our core values which are: Respect Excellence Leadership Loyalty Integrity and Selfless Service.

All positions are securitysensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation and employment is contingent upon the institutions verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institutions procedures including the completion of the criminal history check.

Equal Opportunity/Veterans/Disability Employer.