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Marketing Writer

Employer
Sarah Lawrence College
Location
Bronxville
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Employment Type
Full Time
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

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Marketing Writer

Job Description
Position Overview
Sarah Lawrence College believes exceptional writing is one of the most powerful tools in marketing and communications. This position reflects our commitment to investing in talented writers and giving them the opportunity to practice their craft across a wide variety of channels and audiences.
We're looking for a versatile marketing writer who is curious, collaborative, and eager to help tell the stories that define our community. You'll write across a broad range of projects — from digital advertising and fundraising emails to admission materials, website copy, feature stories, and newsletters — working in tandem with designers, photographers, videographers, strategists, and campus partners to create communications that advance the College's mission.
This is a role for someone who enjoys the challenge of understanding audiences, shaping messages, and finding the clearest, most compelling way to communicate the value of a Sarah Lawrence education.


Why Sarah Lawrence?
At Sarah Lawrence College, writing remains central to how we engage prospective students, families, alumni, donors, and the broader community.

This role offers the opportunity to build a broad portfolio across admissions, advancement, institutional marketing, digital communications, and storytelling while working in a collaborative environment that values creativity, professional growth, and thoughtful communication. As part of the Sarah Lawrence community, staff have access to educational opportunities that reflect the College's longstanding commitment to lifelong learning — including its renowned writing programs.

Essential Duties Summary
Responsibilities
  • Write compelling copy for digital advertising campaigns.
  • Develop fundraising emails, donor communications, and campaign messaging.
  • Write admission marketing materials, including print and digital communications.
  • Write and edit website copy supporting enrollment, advancement, and institutional priorities.
  • Produce news stories, feature articles, profiles, and other editorial content.
  • Write newsletters and email communications for a variety of audiences, including students, parents, and alumni.
  • Interview students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other members of the College community.
  • Collaborate with designers, photographers, videographers, and marketing strategists to develop integrated campaigns.
  • Adapt tone, voice, and messaging for different audiences, goals, and communication channels.
  • Revise work thoughtfully based on feedback, strategy, and editorial review.
  • Help maintain the College's brand voice and editorial standards across communications.
  • Maintain SLC's editorial style guide; edit and proofread content using AP Style.
  • Other duties as assigned.


Required Qualifications
Qualifications
We're looking for someone who demonstrates talent, curiosity, sound judgment, and a commitment to continual growth.

Successful candidates will have:
  • Exceptional interviewing, writing, editing, and proofreading skills.
  • Intellectual curiosity and the ability to learn unfamiliar subjects quickly.
  • Strong audience awareness and the ability to adapt voice, tone, and messaging to different communications goals.
  • Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple writing assignments simultaneously.
  • A collaborative approach and the ability to receive and incorporate feedback.
  • Comfort using AI and other emerging tools thoughtfully to support research, brainstorming, editing, and productivity while exercising independent judgment and maintaining a distinctive human voice.
  • A bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in communications, marketing, journalism, English, or a related field.


Preferred Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
  • Two or more years of professional writing experience, although exceptional portfolios reflecting other paths will be considered.
  • Professional writing experience in higher education, nonprofit organizations, journalism, agencies, or other mission-driven settings.
  • Experience writing for websites, email marketing, digital advertising, and print communications.
  • Familiarity with content management systems and email marketing platforms.
  • Understanding of SEO and writing for digital audiences.


Posting Number: S00469P
Open Date:
Close Date:
Open Until Filled: No
Salary: $55,000 - $65,000

Special Instructions to Applicants
To Apply
Applicants must submit two relevant writing samples demonstrating strength in one or more areas of marketing and communications, such as email marketing, website copy, editorial content, brochures, or advertising. Samples may be excerpts from longer works, and collaborative work is welcome if the applicant briefly describes their contribution.

Finalists may be invited to complete one brief take-home exercise, designed to take no more than 60 minutes, to help the hiring team understand how they approach a typical assignment for this role. The exercise will be limited in scope and is not intended for publication or other use by the College.

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Organization

Sarah Lawrence is a prestigious, residential, coeducational liberal arts college. Founded in 1926 and consistently ranked among the leading liberal arts colleges in the country, Sarah Lawrence is known for its pioneering approach to education, rich history of impassioned intellectual and civic engagement, and vibrant, successful alumni. In close proximity to the unparalleled offerings of New York City, our historic campus is home to an inclusive, intellectually curious, and diverse community.

Talented, creative students choose Sarah Lawrence for the opportunity to take charge of their education. In close collaboration with our dedicated, distinguished faculty, students create a rigorous, personalized course of study, conduct independent research, and connect a wide array of disciplines. They graduate knowing how to apply the knowledge, skills, and critical thinking necessary for life after college.

Sarah Lawrence College occupies 44 wooded acres in Yonkers, NY, near the Village of Bronxville—just north of New York City. A 30-minute train ride from the Bronxville station takes students into Midtown Manhattan.

In addition to our round-table classrooms, Sarah Lawrence has outstanding theatres, art and performance studios, and music spaces; modern science labs; state-of-the-art graphic computing equipment; competitive sports facilities; a 60,000-square-foot visual arts center; and recently renovated dining facilities.

Our students are men and women who share an enthusiasm for intellectual rigor, academic risk taking, creativity in all disciplines, and original and interdisciplinary work. We are particularly committed to having our faculty, administration, and student body reflect the social, racial, and economic diversity that characterizes our society. The College’s 1,377 undergraduate students come from nearly every state and from 53 countries; 84 percent of undergrads live on campus.

At Sarah Lawrence, students spend more time one-on-one with award-winning faculty than do students at any other college in the country.

Working At Sarah Lawrence College

As a Sarah Lawrence employee, you will join a warm, challenging, and diverse community that offers both quality of life advantages and tangible, valuable employee benefits.

When you work at Sarah Lawrence, you:

  • Receive outstanding benefits, such as medical, dental, and vision plans that exceed the standard plans offered by many companies and institutions, and an exceptional retirement plan through TIAA-CREF.
  • Have unparalleled educational opportunities, such as tuition benefits on campus for employees, their spouses, and their children; discounted tuition to the College’s renowned nursery school; and tuition benefit programs for dependent children who attend other colleges.
  • Have continuous opportunities for advancement, as it is College policy to fill vacancies by promotion or transfer whenever possible.
  • Enjoy boundless cultural experiences, including readings, lectures, music, theater, film screenings, dance performances, art exhibitions, and a state-of-the-art library, free to employees. · Have free access to the 48,000-square-foot Campbell Sports Center, with a six-lane pool, modern weight/fitness training center, squash courts, gymnasium, indoor track, outdoor tennis courts, and fitness classes, open to employees seven days per week.
  • Have several on-campus options for meals, plus off-campus discounts at local restaurants and stores.
  • Work in a convenient location close to all major highways, easily accessed from the Metro-North Harlem line, and 35 minutes from mid-town Manhattan.
  • Enjoy free parking on campus, a 10% discount at the college bookstore.
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Telephone
914-395-2315
Location
1 Mead Way
Bronxville
New York
10708
United States

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