Communications Manager

Overview

About Us
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 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:

• 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 well-being 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 is considered the largest Industrial Engineering program in the country. Consisting of over 60 faculty, approximately 1,250 B.S students, 5,700 M.S students, and 190 PhD students, the school is renowned for its focus on advancing theoretical and methodological frontiers as well as the application of analytical principles to the solution of real-world problems of industrial, societal, and global concern.

The School offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in industrial engineering, operations research, analytics, machine learning, and related fields.

Plan, develop and implement communications and promotional strategies and programs that optimize the visibility of a college, school or department. 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: administrative/technical staff.

Job Duty 1 - Develop ideas and concepts for publication

Job Duty 2 - Write articles and newsletters, produce graphics and fact sheets; manage web pages

Job Duty 3 - Direct promotional events and special projects

Job Duty 4 - Attend workshops, events, lectures, etc. relating to the communications field

Job Duty 5 - Assist with promotion of fundraising efforts, as required

Job Duty 6 - Manage the communications budget, as needed

Job Duty 7 - Perform other duties as assigned

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

Five to seven years of job related experience

• Outstanding written communication and editorial skills, with a body of work that reflects adaptability across audiences and formats.
• Proficiency with creative and marketing tools, including Adobe Creative Suite, Canva Pro, email marketing systems (Constant Contact, Emma, Mail Chimp, etc.), social media platforms, and CRM software.
• Demonstrated experience producing high-quality visual and digital content, including graphic design and photography (portfolio will be requested)
• Ability to think strategically while also executing day-to-day deliverables independently.
• Proven ability to manage projects efficiently and juggle…