Boston College Introduction

Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,484 full-time undergraduates and 5,250 graduate and professional students. Ranked 35 among national universities, Boston College has 888 full-time and 1,281 FTE faculty, 2,711 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.4 billion, and an endowment in excess of $3.5 billion.

Job Description

The Carroll School of Management at Boston College—one of the nation’s leading business schools—is looking for an accomplished, energetic, and highly skilled communicator to serve as a (Senior) Content Development Specialist. The position offers an opportunity to work in a collegial, creative, and supportive environment, at a liberal arts university perennially ranked as one of the best employers in Massachusetts.

Reporting to the Associate Director, Content Development, the Specialist participates in all aspects of marketing and communications as well as editorial content at the Carroll School. She/he is part of a three-person team that establishes the strategic directions for marketing and communications (in conjunction with the Dean of the School), and helps execute the strategy through a broad variety of means and channels.

The Specialist shares responsibilities that fall into several major areas of focus, which include:

Building, compiling, designing, and project-managing electronic newsletters in HTML (using Adobe Dreamweaver), ensuring all communications adhere to current spam filter standards and ADA accessibility guidelines. Overseeing, maintaining, and updating the Carroll School website, including front-end work developing complex new departmental and informational sites and pages, and back-end work using internal web structures to improve content accessibility. Creating original and compelling content for e-newsletters, the Carroll School homepage, and other channels. This includes writing journalistic articles for both our print publication Carroll Capital and online-only formats; the content is geared to a wide-ranging audience of alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff, and friends as well as business school leaders internationally.

Coordinating social media; researching, writing, and editing daily posts; creating calendars for each social channel as well as interactive campaigns for the different channels. Developing, updating, and project-managing brochures, fact sheets, and other marketing collateral. Collecting and analyzing metrics for all digital communications, and making optimizations on the basis of these analyses. Managing relationships with School/University partners and counterparts, including University Communications and University Advancement. Supervising a team of student workers who perform basic web maintenance, along with administrative and journalistic tasks.

Requirements

Required minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, marketing, or—just as well—a strong and successful liberal arts background.

Non-senior level: 0-5 years working in marketing and communications, or otherwise in an editorial environment.

Senior level: 5 years working in marketing and communications, or otherwise in an editorial environment.

Demonstrable skills as a writer and digital communications specialist; impressive attention to detail.

Ability to manage multiple, complex, and ongoing projects—working independently and with a team.

Experience with content management systems and social media coordination; as well as with web management platforms, such as Adobe Experience Manager or WordPress.

Working knowledge of basic HTML, and familiarity with Adobe Dreamweaver and Photoshop or Canva, are preferred.

Senior level (5+yrs prof exp): $61,640 - $77,050

Non-senior level (0-5yrs prof exp): $55,840 - $69,800

Closing Statement

Boston College offers a broad and competitive range of benefits depending on your job classification eligibility:

• Tuition remission for Employees

• Tuition remission for Spouses and Children who meet eligibility requirements

• Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

• Low-Cost Life Insurance

• Eligibility for both University-Funded 401k and Employer-Sponsored 403b Retirement Plans

• Paid Holidays Annually

• Generous Sick and Vacation Pay

• Additional benefits can be found on https://www.bc.edu/employeehandbook

Boston College conducts pre-employment background checks as part of the hiring process.

Boston College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. In concert with our Jesuit, Catholic mission, Boston College is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications for women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and covered veterans. To learn more about how BC supports diversity and inclusion throughout the university please visit the Office for Institutional Diversity at https://www.bc.edu/diversity .

Boston College's Notice of Nondiscrimination can be viewed at https://www.bc.edu/nondiscrimination .