Associate Director, Programming and Communications

Job Description

Department AHD Staff: Div Admin PA – Communications Admin About the Department The Division of the Arts and Humanities comprises 19-degree programs across 16 departments and committees, with approximately 650 students from around the world enrolled in our PhD, MFA, and MA programs. The students and academics in our departments dedicate themselves to the thoughtful consideration of humanities’ place in the world. This dedication is displayed through our interdisciplinary centers and programs.

The Division of the Arts and Humanities thrives thanks to its engaging and dynamic staff members, who provide essential infrastructure to support faculty and students while driving institutional success. The Office of Communications for the Division engages audiences internally and externally across an array of media. Job Summary Reporting to the Executive Director of Strategic Communications, the Associate Director of Programming and Communications plays a critical role in producing programs and communications that promote the Division, making the impact of humanistic research vivid and compelling, and teaching to a broad range of stakeholders and key audiences. This position plans, organizes, and manages Division events, both in-person and virtual; identifies and develops multimedia content for the Division’s website, e-newsletter, social media accounts, Tableau (alumni magazine), and University-wide publicity outlets; supervises Communication’s student hires, handles financial transactions; and manages the work of external vendors such as designers or printers.

Serves as a consultant to staff and faculty on events and communications-related activities to ensure coordination and alignment with Division goals and objectives, and represents the office of the dean of the Division of the Arts and Humanities to a broad array of stakeholders and audiences within and beyond the University. Responsibilities Working closely with the Executive Director of Strategic Communications, identifies, develops, writes, produces, edits, and promotes multimedia content for the full range of the Division’s media and channels, including the website Tableau, social media, email, and University-wide publicity outlets.

Working closely with the Director of Digital Communications, helps deploy content across the Division’s array of digital media, including the web CMS Drupal, social media, e-mail, and marketing accounts. Working closely with the Executive Director of Strategic Communications, helps maintain an active editorial calendar for the team. Helps manage the work of student writers and content creators, including editing and feedback.

Provides guidance to staff and faculty on communications-related activities. Provides full-service communications support when deemed appropriate by the Executive Director of Strategic Communications. Partners with colleagues in the Office of Advancement to produce advancement-related communications such as the annual digital and printed holiday card.

Manages the work of external vendors, such as graphic designers, photographers, videographers, etc. Plans, organizes, and manages events including Arts and Humanities Day, Berlin Family Lecture Series, Paleography and the Book Lecture, decanal sponsored events, lectures, and other divisionally sponsored events.

Handles logistics, travel, catering, set-up/take-down, etc. Manages the work of external vendors, such as photographers, videographers, caterers, etc. Partners with colleagues to support shared events including Division Convocation Ceremonies.

Develops and executes communications and marketing plans for events and programs, including internal and external facing outlets (e. g. , media, invitations, brochures, emails, response forms, posters, etc.

). Develops and maintains strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to maximize the impact of programming efforts. Collects and analyzes post-event metrics and feedback.

Shares findings with leadership. Identifies and implements improvements to maximize the impact of programming efforts. Working in partnership with the Executive Director of Strategic Communications and the Director of Digital communications, participates in developing strategic planning for marketing and audience engagement for the division-owned channels, as well as ongoing integration with marketing and communication teams within individual units and departments.

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