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To be successful in this role, you will bring:
- Bachelor's degree and three years of relevant experience or combination of education and relevant experience.
- Excellent written communication skills, reporting skills, and skills in conceptual editing, copy editing, and proof reading.
- Ability to work collaboratively with internal communications groups across campus.
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills in working with a variety of people.
- Capacity to write and synthesize materials and communicate information in a manner easily understood.
In addition, preferred requirements include:
- Master’s degree in communications, international relations, or another related field.
- Experience in internal communications – cascading sensitive information, proven experience facilitating internal meetings and events.
- Advanced technical experience using digital media equipment, video production, high production value audio, and editing software: (Adobe Creative Cloud or equivalent software)
- Possess a strong media relations background with experience cultivating media contacts, building targeted media lists, and conceiving, writing, and editing news releases as well as short-form pitches.
- Ability to supervise student assistants when needed.
- Familiarity supporting donor relations - designing pitches, presentations, reports and other strategic collateral.
- Demonstrated understanding of current industry standards, trends, and technical knowledge.
- Familiarity with Drupal, HTML, and/or general website design.
- Familiarity with Google analytics; leveraging analytics to optimize online engagement.
- Familiarity with MailChimp.
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