Communications Manager II

Job Title:

Communications Manager II

Location:

Atlanta, Georgia

Regular/Temporary:
Regular

Full/Part Time:
Full-Time

Job

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.

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

• Students are our top priority.
• We strive for excellence.
• We thrive on diversity.
• We celebrate collaboration.
• We champion innovation.
• We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
• We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
• We act ethically.
• We are responsible stewards.

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 H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) has achieved national and international prominence through its tradition of unparalleled excellence and leadership in research, education, and service. ISyE has over sixty world-class faculty members, top-notch students including outstanding curricula, and extensive research focused on improving quality of life. ISyE supports a broad spectrum of academic concentrations with several that have achieved best-in-class rankings.

Plan, develop and implement communications and promotional strategies and programs that optimize the visibility of a college, school or department. Additionally, coordinate information technology support efforts for the unit to include administrative leadership in planning, organization and budgeting. Responsible for setting employee goals, assessing employee performance and providing feedback, and making pay recommendations. This position will interact on a consistent basis with faculty, staff, students, alumni, outside vendors, internal and external media contacts, alumni.

This position typically will advise and counsel: unit leadership, faculty, staff and students. This position will supervise communications/technical staff.

Job Duty 1 Develop ideas and concepts for publication.

Job Duty 2 Write articles and newsletters, produce graphics and fact sheets; format and edit research proposals; manage web pages.

Job Duty 3 Plan and oversee the unit's information technology support needs; establish priorities and formulate/manage unit IT budget.

Job Duty 4 Direct promotional events and special projects.

Job Duty 5 Attend workshops, events, lectures, etc. relating to the communications field.

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

Required Experience Eight to ten years of job-related experience.

• Experience/familiarity with communications in STEM fields. In particular, different topics, e.g. research, student activities and successes, events, external relations, alumni, etc.
• Proficiency in multiple modes/models of communication including print, digital, and social media.
• Experience in managing a team of communication staff.
• Interpersonal, collaboration, and analytical skills.

This job requires professional level writing and editing skills,…