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COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER, Office of the Vice President and Associate Provost for Community and In...

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Boston University
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BOSTON, Massachusetts, United States

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COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER, Office of the Vice President and Associate Provost for Community and Inclusion

Tracking Code1342 Job Description

The Communications Manager in the Office of the Vice President/Associate Provost for Community and Inclusion will join a relatively new unit within Boston University focused on aligning the University's stated values regarding community, diversity, equity, and inclusion to its policies, practices, structures, climate, and institutional culture. The manager will play an essential role in helping to develop unified institutional narratives and messaging that promotes a culture of inclusion, intellectual capaciousness, mutual respect, and civility.

Reporting to the Director of Special Projects for Community and Inclusion, the Communications Manager will have a broad range of responsibilities that, when combined, represent the creative and communications content for both the Community: Big Yet Small and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion areas of emphasis at BU. An entirely new position, the inaugural communications manager must thrive in maker space, and function as not only an engineer but as an architect both envisioning a communications strategy and building the infrastructure to effectively operationalize it.

This position will require a communications professional who can synthesize and subsequently integrate University-wide content such that the whole is larger than the sum of its parts; oversee the strategy and design for and production of printed materials; generate creative content (i.e.: stories, profile projects, narratives about institutional histories); maintain and update the newly created BU Diversity & Inclusion website; oversee the production of additional, unit-level websites when appropriate; produce a monthly newsletter; produce an annual report; and oversee the social media for BU D&I. This individual will also generate internal communications; and serve as a liaison support and help train communications specialists across the University in order to help ensure messaging across the University is consistent.

Required Skills

Qualifications will include very strong project management, exemplary writing and communication skills; experience managing a large website; expertise in social media content management; and customer service. Because of the complexity of and sensitivity with regard to DEI communications, the successful candidate will have strong and demonstrated experience in diversity, equity, and inclusion communications. Further, candidates with a great deal of higher education experience will be preferred.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

Job Location BOSTON, Massachusetts, United StatesPosition TypeFull-Time/Regular

Organization

The Difference Is Our DNA

What compelled the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to award Boston University a grant to fight newborn mortality in Zambia? Why did Martin Luther King, Jr. adopt BU as a place where he could hone his message of justice and equality? And what is the catalyst that prompts 32,557 students from 135 countries to call BU their home every semester? It’s in our DNA: an inherent desire in each of our students, faculty, and staff to vigorously and dauntlessly pursue knowledge—and embrace the unlimited possibilities that come with it.

A Community Unlike Any Other

As you can see below, it takes people, ideas, and a little luck (Boston, you’re our town) to make BU what it is today: one of the most dynamic universities in the world.

Celebrated thinkers: On any given day, students will find themselves mesmerized by Nobel Prize winners, a poet laureate, and the first biomedical engineer ever to receive a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award,” among others.

Extraordinary teaching: When a classroom starts to percolate with new ideas, it’s because our faculty of scholars and accomplished practitioners know how to ignite students’ imaginations. That’s why we reward our best teachers with BU’s most prestigious honor: The Metcalf Cup and Prize.

Groundbreaking research: With faculty dedicated to a creative, interdisciplinary approach to problem solving, BU has become a leading global research institution—propelled forward by over $350 million a year in sponsored program revenue.

World-class students: Elite students from all 50 states and 135 countries pursue higher education on BU campuses in Boston and at programs in L.A., D.C., and more than 30 other cities on six continents.

A city within a city: Today, 80% of our undergrads live on campus, which could explain the 525 student activity groups alone.

The greatest college town in the world: Boston. ’Nuff said.

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