Director, Communications - Arts & Sciences - 16000000LG
Description
Pay Grade: 47
The University of Tennessee seeks applications and nominations for an experienced, creative, highly-organized and motivated leader with exceptional communication skills to serve as the Director of Communications for the College of Arts & Sciences in
Knoxville.
The college’s Office of Communications is charged with promoting and advancing the college’s image and reputation within the community, the state, the nation, and the world among the college’s key audiences: alumni, donors, and current and prospective faculty,
students, and staff. This position works closely with the dean to define the messaging and branding of the college and works closely with office staff and other communicators to ensure any college communications appropriately and consistently reflect the college’s
identity, messages, and priorities.
The Office of Communications is responsible for the college’s day-to-day communication needs and supports the college’s twenty-one departments and schools, twelve interdisciplinary programs, the College Scholars Program, the Language and World Business Program,
and eight centers and institutes in their communications efforts. This position works with the dean, college administrators, including department heads and directors, and office staff to create and manage the college’s messaging, brand, and identity among
internal audiences (current students, faculty, and staff) and external audiences (alumni, donors, prospective students and faculty, and the university community at large).
The Director of Communications will provide strategic leadership and overall supervision for communication efforts within the College of Arts & Sciences. This position will supervise a staff consisting of two Communications Managers. One oversees Print and
the other Digital Communications including the web and social media. The Director also manages the salary budget, funds for hiring free-lance writers, and funds for the printed annual report.
Qualifications
The successful candidate must have:
• A bachelor’s degree in liberal arts and sciences discipline and master’s degree in discipline related to communication.
• Five years of experience administering a higher-education or corporate communications/marketing office.
• Exceptionally strong oral and written communication skills, including editing and writing experience.
• Significant experience working on a wide variety of communications projects, including long-form publications, digital and print magazines and newsletters, website development.
• Experience working collaboratively with other communications professionals, including writers, editors, print designers, web designers/developers, photographers, videographers, and video production professionals.
• Strong skills in visionary leadership, oral communication, planning, organization, supervision, team-building, teamwork, and self-direction.
• A high-level understanding of communications strategy and branding, especially as they relate to higher education.
• Strong writing and editing skills and experience writing for print, web, and digital media.
• Strong skills in project management.
Desired qualifications:
• A doctoral degree in communications, public relations, or related area.
• Eight or more years of experience supervising a higher-education communications office.
• Experience in media relations and crisis communications, event management/promotion, social media, and art direction.
For full consideration: Please submit a cover letter, resume, and writing sample.
About the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is the state’s flagship, public land-grant, research-intensive university. UTK is completing Year 5 of its Top-25/Vol Vision strategic plan and will embark on a major fund-raising campaign a year from now, in April 2017.
As the largest, most comprehensive and most diverse of the university’s eleven colleges, the College of Arts and Sciences is uniquely poised to contribute to the success of both of these strategic endeavors.
The college’s twenty-one academic departments and schools, eight centers and institutes, and twelve interdisciplinary programs span the disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and the visual and performing arts. More than 7,500 undergraduate
students have an academic home in one of the college’s sixty undergraduate majors and pre-professional programs. The college also offers more than fifty graduate programs, and is home to 1,400 graduate students. The college’s academic programs are served by
more than 600 faculty members, who also provide the university’s entire undergraduate student body with core instruction in the arts and humanities and the natural and social sciences. Our tenure-track/tenured faculty maintain vibrant programs of research,
scholarship, and creative activity, through which they advance the frontiers of knowledge and train undergraduate and graduate students to become independent and engaged scholars.
The college is committed to the long-standing traditions of the liberal arts. It seeks to promote in all its students the values of free and bold intellectual inquiry, vibrant and effective civic engagement, and an understanding of our nation’s and our world’s
rich cultural heritages.
Job
Executive/Administrative
Primary Location
US-Tennessee-knoxville
Organization
Administration-Arts & Sciences
Campus/Institute Knoxville
Schedule
Full-time
Job Posting
May 4, 2016, 11:46:02 AM
ANDREW KRAMER, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Academic Personnel
Professor, Department of Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
312 Ayres Hall
1403 Circle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-1330
Office: 865-974-4161
Fax: 865-974-4352
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