Assistant Director, Communications - JR28050-3800 - The University of Chicago

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About the Department
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest
business school in the U.S. and second to none when it comes to
influencing business education and business practices. Since 1898, the
school has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business.
Their rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education
transforms students into confident, effective, respected business
leaders prepared to face the toughest challenges.
Chicago Booth has the finest set of facilities of any business school in
the world. Each of the four campuses (two in Chicago, one in London, and
one in Hong Kong) reflects the architectural traditions of its environs
while offering a state-of-the-art learning environment.
Chicago Booth is proud to claim:
-an unmatched faculty.
-degree and open enrollment programs offered on three continents.
-a global body of nearly 56,000 accomplished alumni.
-strong and growing corporate relationships that provide a wealth of
lifelong career opportunities.
As part of the world-renowned University of Chicago, Chicago Booth
shares the University's core values that shape the distinctive
intellectual culture. At Booth, they constantly question and test ideas,
and seek proof. This extraordinarily effective approach to business
leads to new ideas and innovative solutions. Seven of the Booth faculty
members have won Nobel Prizes for these ideas - the first business
school to achieve this accomplishment.
For more information about the University of Chicago Booth School of
Business, please visit: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/.
Job Summary
The Assistant Director of Communications will play an active role in
refining, executing, and evaluating the Roman Family Center for Decision
Research's strategic communications plan. The Assistant Director will
write for a broad range of audiences; develop strategy and content for
the Center's social media identities; manage event promotion; and
assist with web updates and management, marketing campaigns, print
production, and overall external relations and community engagement.
Will join a fast-paced, highly collaborative administrative team focused
on advancing the work of the Center supporting multiple behavioral
science laboratory environments, including Mindworks.
Responsibilities
- In partnership with the Director of Communications, refines and
executes a strategic communications plan.
- Assists with research; writes, edits, and deploys content in
distinct voices appropriate to the audience, medium, and genre,
including but not limited to: original content for the RF-CDR
website and social media; messages to potential research
participants; press releases; email marketing; promotional copy for
events, partners, and potential donors; internal reports and memos;
and advertising copy.
- Assists in creating content and strategy to engage and grow the pool
of potential research participants.
- Assists in managing the Center's website, including writing,
editing, analyzing performance and metrics, and researching
industry-wide best practices.
- Creates and refines a social media strategy that engages and grows
external audience, helps raise the public profile of the Center,
promotes faculty research, highlights the activities of the PIMCO
Decision Research Laboratories and promotes participation, and
demonstrates RF-CDR's preeminent position as a thought leader and
catalyst in the field of behavioral science.
- Oversees the writing, editing, production, and distribution of
multiple email newsletters for the Center, Mindworks, and individual
lab spaces.
- anages and coordinates multiple aspects of event promotion;
oversees digital and physical marketing, including direct email
campaigns, social media, and print advertising; manages partnerships
and opportunities for cross promotion.
- Assists in producing publications that market the Center to
potential partners, donors, and other constituents, as well as
reports that steward existing relationships.
- Acts as an ambassador for the Roman Family Center for Decision
Research in interactions with prospective and current students,
researchers, alumni, and other key partners.
- Plans, develops and disseminates information designed to keep the
public informed of the organization's programs, accomplishments, or
point of view, with moderate levels of guidance and direction.
- Solves a range of straightforward problems, as work assignments are
difficult and broad in nature, usually requiring originality and
ingenuity.
- Performs other related work as needed.
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related
field.
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Work Experience:
Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 2-5
years of work experience in a related job discipline.
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Certifications:
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