Current Opportunities
Head of Communications and Marketing
Yale University offers exciting opportunities for achievement and growth in New Haven, Connecticut. Conveniently located between Boston and New York, New Haven is the creative capital of Connecticut with cultural resources that include three major museums, a critically-acclaimed repertory theater, state-of-the-art concert hall, and world-renowned schools of Architecture, Art, Drama, and Music.
General Purpose:
Yale University offers exciting opportunities for achievement and growth in New Haven, Connecticut. Conveniently located between Boston and New York, New Haven is the creative capital of Connecticut with cultural resources that include three major museums, a critically-acclaimed repertory theater, state-of-the-art concert hall, and world-renowned schools of Architecture, Art, Drama, and Music.
Reporting to the Deputy Director for Advancement and External Affairs, the Head of Communications and Marketing is responsible for developing strategic communications plans to build awareness about the Yale Center for British Art, including collections, exhibitions, programs, and resources, as well as to increase visitation from target audiences. Working with colleagues, this position will identify specific audiences, determine and execute a strategy for reaching them, and implement ways to grow and diversify such audiences. The position will create an integrated marketing and communications strategy to deliver the institution's key messages across multiple platforms, including print and online to the general public, as well as university and scholarly communities nationally and internationally. This position collaborates with Yale's Office of Public Affairs and Communication to promote and support the Center's overall mission.
The position works with print, broadcast, and digital media, and develops long-term partnerships with writers, editors, designers, corporate sponsors, cultural organizations, state agencies, and other museum supporters. The position also oversees visitor services, marketing research and analysis, directs advertising campaigns, and coordinates the tri-annual Calendar of Events. The position works with curators, visiting scholars, and Yale faculty to promote significant projects and synthesize academic ideas and exhibition concepts to create stories for press and social media. The position is responsible for training staff for press events, media tours, interviews, and multimedia projects. This position organizes national and international press launches in New York and London to announce projects for the coming year, and organizes press trips and media previews for major exhibitions.
The position manages internal communications for effective flow of news and information with Center staff, as well as crisis communications for the Center. The position supervises a Communications and Marketing Associate, a Digital Communications Manager; a Visitor Services/Information Volunteer Coordinator; as well as student workers/interns. Additionally, the Head of Communications and Marketing chairs the Web, Media, + Tech Advisory Committee and is responsible for management of the Center's website as well as its online engagement and social media program.
Required Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s Degree in English, Journalism, Communications, or a related field and four years of experience in public relations, journalism, newspaper writing, editing, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Qualifications:
• Demonstrated superb writing skills. Proven editorial skills across multiple media such as print, web, and social media. Demonstrated knowledge of AP and/or Chicago Manual of Style.
• Proven success in strategic planning, organizational positioning and marketing plans. Demonstrated success in developing and managing multiple projects and deadlines from conception to completion with exceptional attention to detail. Excellent judgment in time sensitive situations.
• Demonstrated ability with press relations, including local, national (International preferred), print, online, and broadcast media campaigns. Demonstrated skills in areas such as training staff for media events and multimedia projects, as well as analyzing website and social media metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with a diverse group to achieve a common goal.
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint; and Adobe lnDesign, Acrobat, and Photoshop. Demonstrated ability with email marketing systems. Proven skills in overseeing the production of videos, webcasts, and/or podcasts.
• Preferred Education and Experience: Five years of successful communications and marketing leadership responsibility in an art museum. Experience with content management systems. Demonstrated ability in public speaking and media relations. Master's degree in art history or journalism/communications. Experience working in a cultural institution or non-profit organization. Experience with Drupal, Bedework, and HTML editing.
Application: For more information and immediate consideration, please apply online at http://bit.ly/YaleCareers-58852BR. Please be sure to reference this website when applying for this position.
We invite you to discover the excitement, diversity, rewards and excellence of a career at Yale University. One of the country's great workplaces, Yale University offers exciting opportunities for meaningful accomplishment and true growth. Our benefits package is among the best anywhere, with a wide variety of insurance choices, liberal paid time off, fantastic family and educational benefits, a variety of retirement benefits, extensive recreational facilities, and much more.
Yale University considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Yale discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.