Communications Coordinator

Position Overview

Performs complex and diverse communications, graphic design, and marketing duties. Writes news articles, identifying and researching topics, conducting interviews, and developing original content for marketing campaigns. Supports effective communications through work on various websites for the SCC and related programs, emails, print materials, social media, and videos. Helps manage the SCC’s web presence in WordPress, trains new contributors as needed, and serves as point of contact for staff web editing questions. Supports the production of internal reports in collaboration with other SCC staff. Collaborates on marketing campaigns for major SCC events and activities, including developing and executing promotional plans, creating print and digital materials, and assisting with production.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions**)

1. Provide complex support and executes communications efforts for the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.
2. Writes and edits feature stories for the SCC website and news stories for MIT News;
3. Applies MIT’s editorial, accessibility guidelines, programming, and design standards;
4. Reviews, flags, and corrects communications content for flaws, inconsistencies, wordiness,
5. grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc;
6. Collaborates on marketing campaigns for major SCC events and activities, including developing and executing promotional plans, creating print and digital materials, and assisting with production;
7. Creates and edits original content and graphics for web, email, print, and social media (Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook);
8. Coordinates with MIT Copytech and other vendors in the production of materials;
9. Edits and updates the SCC website in WordPress and serves as point of contact for staff web editing questions and trains new contributors as needed;
10. Creates and maintains templates, drafts, and varied communications content for SCC programs, events, and activities;
11. Creates and maintains contact lists for email communications;
12. Coordinates photography and images, following MIT policies and best practices; maintains an archive of images and videos from past programs;
13. Supports the production of internal reports in collaboration with other SCC staff;
14. Tracks budget for part of a project or program;
15. Monitors media and web traffic, tracks data and metrics, analyzes trends, and makes recommendations based on results;
16. Other duties as assigned.

Supervision Received

Receives limited supervision from the Director of Communications.

Supervision Exercised

None.

Qualifications & Skills

REQUIRED: Bachelor’s degree in related field required. A minimum of one year of communication experience required.  Experience in communications, including experience in digital communications, website and content management systems; experience in developing and managing social media and web communications for a program or organization; ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple tasks while remaining attentive to detail and adapting to occasional shifts in circumstance or priority; excellent written and oral communication, and organizational skills; proven record of project or program management competence; and ability to coordinate multiple communications projects simultaneously. 

PREFERRED: Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, WordPress, Canva, email marketing software like Constant Contact and MailChimp, and social media management tools such as HootSuite. Writing sample may be requested.

_{** To comply with regulations by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the principal duties in position descriptions must be essential to the job. To identify essential functions, focus on the purpose and the result of the duties rather than the manner in which they are performed. The following definition applies: a job function is essential if removal of that function would fundamentally change the job.}