Communications Manager
The College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Austin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $85,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Provides strategic communications guidance to HR and communications support for departments and areas in Campus Services and Campus Operations and Planning.
- Develops and maintains written and digital content, including website updates, social media posts, and messaging documents.
- Partners with HR leadership and CME team to develop HR communications strategies and ensure alignment with the HR strategic plan.
- Leads, writes, coordinates, and publishes the HR monthly newsletter in partnership with HR and CME staff.
- Oversees HR’s online presence, including partnering with subject matter experts on a website audit and redevelopment effort.
- Supports rollout of One Great Team culture elements, especially as they relate to HR initiatives such as onboarding and performance reviews.
- Works collaboratively with HR teams to identify, coordinate, and build synergies among groups within HR.
- Identifies story ideas and contributes to editorial planning; Contributes to multimedia efforts such as training videos, culture pieces, and operational storytelling—supporting scriptwriting, storyboarding, direction, and production.
- Develops internal communications for staff and campus audiences, including correspondence, announcements, reports, presentations, newsletters, FAQs, recognition efforts, and talking points.
- Provides support for external communications in consultation with CME team, such as coordinating spokesperson interviews, gathering information and facts to use in response to a media inquiry, or editing presentations and promotional materials.
- Coordinates with Campus Services and Campus Operations and Planning department communicators, and CME team to ensure communications are strategically aligned with organizational goals and support priorities.
- Prepares messaging materials, supports departmental events, ensures quality control, and attends leadership meetings to represent communications needs and opportunities.
- Provides proofreading, copyediting, tone guidance, and formatting support to ensure consistency and clarity across OSS communications.
- Attends OSS and university-wide communications meetings.
- Ensures communications align with University initiatives, UT brand standards, and accessibility guidelines.
- Provides flexible, adaptive communications assistance across departments and units within Operational Services and Strategies to support evolving needs.
Requirements
- Five years of professional experience in internal or organizational communications, public relations, public affairs, journalism, or similar work.
- Excellent writing and communication skills.
- Highly detail-oriented with strong proofreading, editing, and quality-control skills.
- Experience using content management systems.
- Experience auditing websites, writing website content, and launching websites within large or complex organizations.
- Ability to take initiative, work independently, and collaborate on cross-functional teams.
- Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrated tact, diplomacy, discretion, and ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Commitment to high ethical standards.
- Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
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