Job Title: Communications Director
PVN ID: HC-2206-004896
Category: Instruction and Social Service
Location: HUNTER COLLEGE

Job Description

General Description

CENTRO is seeking a full-time Communications Director to help develop, coordinate and execute a comprehensive communications strategy to engage our audiences, raise brand awareness, and increase support for CENTRO. The person in this role will be in charge of creating social media content, producing a bi-monthly digital newsletter, writing copy for the website and providing strategic vision for overall communications. 

Interested candidates must show a demonstrated interest in CENTRO’s mission, as well as have a passion for collaborating with community members and organizations. 

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Developing consistent messaging for internal and external audiences that aligns with CENTRO’s mission, vision, and values
  • Creating email and social media content, promotional materials, mailers, and website content to engage target audiences
  • Collaborating with CENTRO’s team leaders to strategically advance organizational and programmatic goals
  • Writing and editing press releases, developing talking points, collaborating on op-eds,  press kit materials
  • Editing grant proposals, presentations, fact sheets, and other supporting material as needed
  • Developing & maintaining effective working relationships with media outlets and ensuring maximum visibility for CENTRO in local, state and regional media outlets.
  • Working closely with the director to position CENTRO researchers and staff to serve as thought leaders and community advocates

Other Duties

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, English, Journalism or related field preferred
  • Experience creating content and managing print and media campaigns
  • Excellent writing and editing skills with a strong command of storytelling
  • Spanish/English fluency preferred
  • Distilling complex ideas into simple, approachable language for a variety of audiences and channels
  • Ability to create and sustain an engaging voice on social media
  • Commitment to and knowledge of Puerto Rican history and culture in Puerto Rico and its diaspora
  • Commitment to social justice, online advocacy, and digital strategic communications
  • Sensitivity, understanding and the ability to effectively interact with individualsce from diverse backgrounds

About the Research Foundation

The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) was established as a not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963. RFCUNY supports CUNY faculty and staff in identifying and obtaining external support (pre-award) from government and private sponsors and is responsible for the administration of all such funded programs (post-award).

RFCUNY stands between CUNY’s principal investigators (PIs) and the sponsors who support them and strives to fulfill its essential responsibilities to both groups. Working closely with individual PIs and Grants Officers on the campuses, RFCUNY oversees employment, accounting, audit, reporting, purchasing, and special responsibilities that include management of a planned giving program; liaison with governmental agencies and foundations; negotiation of agreements; facility construction and renovation; protection and commercialization of intellectual property; and compliance with applicable standards in research involving human subjects, animal care, environmental and radiological safety, and conflicts of interest.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Research Foundation of the City University of New York is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Americans with Disabilities Act/E-Verify Employer. It is the policy of the Research Foundation of CUNY to provide equal employment opportunities free of discrimination based on race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic violence victim status, arrest record, criminal conviction history, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Key Features

Department
Center for Puerto Rican Studies
Status
Full Time
Annual Salary Range
$65,000.00 - $85,000.00
Closing Date
Nov 26, 2022 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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