Job Description
Overview
The Horst Schulze School of Hospitality Management and the College of Human Sciences is seeking a Communications and Marketing – Department Specialist I/II to create communications, marketing and promotional material delivered through various mediums in a college, school, or department.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for overseeing creative and technical elements of social media, executing strategies to build brand loyalty across platforms, and integrating campaigns with college and university-wide initiatives. Managing content creation, online engagement monitoring, and a weekly content calendar, ensuring strategic and consistent messaging.
- Collaborates with faculty, staff, students, and alumni to identify and prioritize impactful storytelling opportunities. Participates in monthly social media liaison meetings with the Hospitality program, and weekly communications meetings with the CHS team. Stays up to date on social media trends and proactively recommends promotional ideas across all social media platforms. Partners with CHS comm team leaders to promote college-wide initiatives and events across CHS social media channels.
- Serves as the social media expert and advocate for both internal and external partners.
- Customizes School content to strategically align with each platform.
- Collaborates with faculty and CHS Marketing and Communications Office to develop social media strategy to determine the placement of content across School and CHS social media platforms; collaborates strategically with other campus partners to ensure seamless campaign integration across platforms as part of a multi-channel approach.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communications, Marketing or related field
Level I- Bachelor’s degree
Level II- Bachelor’s degree plus 2 year of experience in marketing and communications services to include print journalism
Substitutions allowed for Experience: Graduate degrees accepted in lieu of experience requirement, at a rate of one (1) year relevant education per year of required experience.
Contract Type
Continuing
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Posted Date
6/29/2026
