Communications Officer

Job Title: Communications Officer I
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Job : 292640

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship.

Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security.

Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

The Georgia Institute of Technology is a top 10 public research university with nearly 40,000 students who study in person at the main campus in Atlanta, at Georgia Tech-Europe in France, as well as through distance and online learning. Georgia Tech is distinguished by its commitment to improving the human condition through advanced science and technology. Accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), the Institute offers nationally recognized undergraduate and graduate programs in the colleges of business, computing, design, engineering, liberal arts, and sciences.

The Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Education (GPE) is a unit of the Office of the Provost with a mission that supports Georgia Tech's mission by providing services, advocacy, and development programs for graduate students and postdocs, as well as oversight and strategic initiatives to graduate education.

Participate in communications efforts designed to market a campus unit's products and/or services to target audiences. This position develops communications materials in the form of graphics, brochures, fact sheets, articles for publication, logo designs and/or websites. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: unit management and personnel, customers and vendors. This position typically will advise and counsel: NA. This position will supervise: NA.

• Conduct and utilize market research as necessary to recommend appropriate marketing communications strategies.
• Develop content and oversee the design and production process for print collateral.
• Consult with academic and/or administrative personnel to acquire the necessary information about the subject.
• Confer with Institute Communications and Marketing to ensure that Institute graphic and style standards are followed in all material.
• Obtain cost estimates, collaborate in the selection of illustrators and printers and approve their work, as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Educational Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in Communications, Marketing, Journalism or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Other

Required Qualifications:

This job requires exposure to higher than average noise levels, handling objects up to 100 pounds and standing/walking for extended periods of time.

Required Experience:

Two to four years of job related experience.

• 2-4 years of professional experience in communications, marketing, or digital content creation.
• Prior experience working in higher education, nonprofit, or mission-driven organizations.
• Advanced proficiency in Slate CRM,…