Executive Communications Specialist

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.

About Georgia Tech

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 and Values

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:

1. Students are our top priority.

2. We strive for excellence.

3. We thrive on diversity.

4. We celebrate collaboration.

5. We champion innovation.

6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.

7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.

8. We act ethically.

9. 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.

Location:

Atlanta, Georgia.

Employment type:

Full-Time. Status:
Regular.

The Executive Communications Specialist is responsible for creating and delivering strategic communication plans for senior executives within a departmental unit. This role involves crafting key messages, speeches, presentations, and other materials to effectively convey the vision, goals, and initiatives to internal and external stakeholders. The specialist may also assist with media relations, crisis communications, and other high-level communication tasks to enhance the executive's content.

Strong writing, editing, and strategic thinking skills are essential for success in this role.

Job Duty 1 - Working with executives and other senior-level leadership to develop, edit, and publish high-level communications, including talking points, speeches, leadership emails, and official messages.

Job Duty 2 - Develop and implement communication strategies that align with organizational goals and support executive visibility; may advise executive on their social media presence.

Job Duty 3 - Adept with standard software and operating systems; has proficiency in presentation design and content management systems.

Job Duty 4 - Manage projects and processes independently with limited supervision, including collaborating with and reviewing the work…