Yale University · 20 hours ago
Communications Specialist
New Haven, CT
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$65K/yr - $101K/yr
4+ years expYale University is committed to contributing to a better tomorrow, and they are seeking a Communications Specialist to enhance their communication strategies. The role involves writing, editing, and distributing communications to faculty and staff, maintaining web content, and developing training materials related to faculty appointment procedures.
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Responsibilities
Drafts policy memos, announcements, and messages from the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the FAS Dean’s Office to be sent to FAS faculty and staff
Supports short- and long-term communication planning; works with colleagues across the FAS and Yale to identify, evaluate, and measure the impact of the FAS’s communications strategies
Envisions, creates and authors a wide variety of sensitive and high-level written materials, including letters, memos, policies, and other documents
Develops and exercises a keen understanding of the multiple audiences and contributing University offices involved in a given project to ensure that individual communications are rolled out within a structure planned in advance and with appropriate communication among key stakeholders
Develops relationships and coordinates communications with other university offices (i.e.: Office of Public Affairs and Communications, Provost’s Office, President’s Office, Secretary’s Office, Yale College and Graduate School Deans’ offices, professional school dean’s offices, and others) as appropriate
Updates, creates, and publishes policy- and news-related content for the FAS Dean’s Office website and updates site as needed
May assist with developing content strategy
Creates, updates, and edits documentation and training materials that aid department staff and faculty members with faculty appointment processes
Maintains Yale Message/Salesforce Marketing Cloud distribution lists and templates and prepares messages for distribution
Prepares talking points and presentations for the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and other members of FAS leadership
Supports the FAS Dean’s Office staff and leadership in proofreading, posting, and managing written content
May serve as coordinator for a range of internal and external committees and managing correspondence
May supervise the work of administrative staff and/or student workers
May write and edit news and feature stories, web spotlights, media releases, web content, and a wide array of other content of interest to the FAS’s target audiences, including current faculty, prospective faculty, media, donors, alumni, and others
Develops and executes public relations strategy, output, and performance for the department with the goal of increasing media impressions in local, national, industry-specific and alumni media
Creates communications strategy to showcase top technologies available for license
Ensures consistent look and tone for all department communications, including written content, website and social media
Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with media representatives
Identifies opportunities to work with other departments, university publications and the Office of Public Affairs to develop and publicize stories
Assesses the University faculty inventions and student startups for newsworthiness and create compelling news and public relations content
Creates engaging, dynamic content for the public, including press releases, blog articles, website updates, newsletter articles and social media
Manages delivery channels for newsworthy content, including updating and maintaining the department websites, social media accounts, and articles for email newsletters, and creating video, print, and on-campus events
Creates websites that embed existing content from Yale and external sites (publications related to the technology, videos featuring inventor, profile on Yale Bulletin and Calendar innovators webpage)
Seeks out, negotiates with and recommends external organizations that can provide services that optimize both the cost and functionality of the new communications strategy
Ensures that all communications conform to the University guidelines
Hires student workers as needed to assist in producing copy
May perform other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Superior written and oral communication skills; proven ability to articulate ideas in verbal and written communications to a variety of audiences and stakeholders
Excellent interpersonal skills, with an ability to work with faculty, staff, administrators, alumni, and donors. Flexibility, good judgement, and ability to maintain confidential information. Ability to handle challenging and complex situations and create thoughtful, informed, and institutionally aligned responses
Self-started with strong work ethic, ability to meet deadlines. Ability to work both collaboratively and independently in an organized and productive manner
Demonstrated experience updating website content using a content management system. Proficiency in using digital marketing software
Detail oriented with experience in editing written documents and preparing correspondence. Demonstrated organizational skills and ability to develop and execute strategic projects
Bachelor's Degree in a related field and four years of experience in website design, production, marketing, project management or an equivalent combination of education and experience
Preferred
Familiarity with practices and trends in higher education and faculty appointments and promotions
Experience updating Drupal-based websites
Proficiency maintaining distribution lists and sending messages using Salesforce Marketing Cloud (YaleMessage)
Experience developing training materials and documents outlining policy and procedure
Proficiency with project management tools (i.e. Airtable)
Company
Yale University
Yale University is a research and education institution that prioritizes its students.
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Funding
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Late StageTotal Funding
$42.86MKey Investors
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2025-10-23Grant
2025-05-21Grant· $0.05M
2023-01-01Grant· $1.27M
Leadership Team
Geoffrey Chatas
Senior Vice President for Operations
Jack Callahan
Senior Vice President for Operations
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