PUBLICIST AND ACADEMIC EXHIBITS COORDINATOR, DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Duke University:
Duke University was created in 1924 through an indenture of trust by James Buchanan Duke. Today, Duke is regarded as one of America’s leading research universities. Located in Durham, North Carolina, Duke is positioned in the heart of the Research Triangle, which is ranked annually as one of the best places in the country to work and live. Duke has more than 15,000 students who study and conduct research in its 10 undergraduate, graduate and professional schools. With about 40,000 employees, Duke is the third largest private employer in North Carolina, and it now has international programs in more than 150 countries.
Duke University Press (DUP) seeks a full-time Publicist & Academic Exhibits Coordinator. Reporting to the DUP Journals Marketing Manager, this position increases subscription revenue and usage of DUP journals and electronic collections; coordinates journals’ presence at academic exhibits; and co-manages DUP’s social media presence and publicity programs.
If interested please submit the University-required electronic application, including your résumé and cover letter, before close of the position at Noon on Wednesday, July 6, 2022.
Duke University Press is strongly-committed to fighting racism and to supporting diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. We welcome applicants who share this commitment.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
- Manage DUP virtual or in-person presence at 80+ conferences per year (including conferences for affiliated societies and individual journals)
- Maintain exhibit database with contact, shipping, display, and sales information
- Coordinate table/booth display or participation in joint display
- Create and produce materials (including program ads, brochures/flyers, postcards, giveaway items, invitations, and posters), working with designer and copy editor
- Oversee exhibit materials workflow, coordinating with Books Marketing and Journals Production (the job involves packing, moving large cases, and dismantling and setting up exhibit displays)
- Determine which journals should be sent to books marketing meetings; create order form
- Oversee exhibit materials workflow, coordinating with Books Marketing and the Journals Marketing Designer
- Reserve joint program ads for books and journals; manage deadlines, communication, annual import into workflow management system, and related expenses
- Select journals and journal special issues to be featured in posters, program ads, and events in coordination with departmental marketing plan and Journals Marketing Manager
- Create and oversee production of materials for exhibits (including program ads, flyers, postcards, giveaway items, invitations, and posters)
- Work with Books Exhibits Coordinator to plan events in conjunction with or independent from books marketing needs
- Identify and pursue publicity opportunities for journals and electronic collections
- Develop publicity plans and collateral material (e.g. journal special issues, annual pricing launch, and acquisition of new titles, new initiatives)
- Develop marketing plans and strategy for special projects/new products as needed, working with stakeholders
- Maintain relationships with and identify publicity outlets
- Create content for targeted listservs for journal specific and library direct marketing efforts
- Produce publicity and sales videos in-house or in coordination with outside vendor
- Co-manage social media presence for Duke University Press (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and a blog)
- Create content for social media sites (write copy, obtain images, film and edit interviews with DUP authors and editors)
- Co-manage social media strategy, including navigation of controversial or sensitive topics
- Plan DUP presence at panels, symposiums, and award ceremonies
- Oversee and implement 6+ receptions annually
- Identify and propose opportunities to increase visibility through sponsorship of an event
- Create and produce materials for the event in coordination with Journals Design
- Recommend workflow and business system improvements for team’s work (serve as team expert on Asana and Title Management)
Department-Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Writing of copy for publication; Microsoft Office; Social media management experience; organizational skills; project management skills; time management skills; enthusiasm for continuous learning, particularly in regard to technology (e.g. databases; video creation software)
- Effectiveness in working with customers, clients, and others from diverse backgrounds and life experiences; sensitivity to language relating to race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and ability/disability.
Work Location: This position is responsible for DUP’s journals exhibits presence, requiring that the person in this role must be available to come to the office or to the DUP warehouse several times per month, or as needed (currently about 2 to 3 times monthly) in order to pack, ship, and receive exhibit-related materials.
Minimum Qualifications
Education
Work requires communications, analytical and organizational skills generally acquired through completion of a bachelor's degreeprogram.
Experience
Work requires one year experience in marketing, advertising, media, promotions, graphic arts, public relations, sales, or other related background to acquire skills necessary to plan, develop and implement marketing strategies in one or more specialty areas. OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE
Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.
Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essentialjob functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.
Organization
Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.
As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.
Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.
Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.
Mission Statement
"James B. Duke's founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to 'provide real leadership in the educational world' by choosing individuals of 'outstanding character, ability, and vision' to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of 'character, determination and application;' and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would 'most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.'
“To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth.
“By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”
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