Assistant Dean of Communications – Brooks School of Public Policy

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Assistant Dean of Communications – Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy

About Cornell:

Cornell University is a remarkable community of scholars, educators, students, staff, and alumni who are deeply influenced by proud traditions and a set of cherished founding principles. Unique among its Ivy League peers, Cornell is a private university with a land-grant mission. It is a world-class research institution known for the breadth and rigor of its curricula and an academy dedicated to preparing young people to be well-educated and well-rounded citizens of the world. Cornell’s faculty, staff, and students believe in the critical importance of knowledge-both theoretical and applied-as a means of improving the human condition and solving the world’s problems. It embraces traditional liberal arts education, practical applications of knowledge, and interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to research and teaching. It champions free and open intellectual inquiry and expression, treats all individuals with dignity and respect, celebrates difference and diversity, fosters a sense of belonging, and remains open and accessible to all who meet its high academic standards. As a university founded to be a place where “…any person can find instruction in any study,” diversity and inclusion are at the core of our values and mission. We strive to be a welcoming, caring, healthy, and equitable community where students, faculty, and staff with different backgrounds, perspectives, abilities, and experiences can learn, innovate, and work in an environment of respect and feel empowered to engage in any community conversation.

As a member of the Cornell University community, it is important to recognize our shared responsibility to each other to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all. Cornell receives national recognition as an award-winning workplace for our health, well-being, sustainability, and diversity initiatives. The University consists of 16 schools and colleges, four of which receive support from New York State as part of Cornell’s land-grant mission. At the Ithaca campus, the Weill Cornell Medicine campuses in New York City and Qatar, and the Cornell Tech campus in New York City, the University enrolls nearly 15,000 undergraduates and over 8,000 graduate and professional school students. Cornell employs approximately 8,100 staff and 1,600 professorial faculty members in Ithaca and at Cornell Tech, and an additional 5,000 staff and 1,700 faculty members at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. The University is governed by a 64-member board of trustees, which includes representatives from the faculty, students, staff, alumni, and New York State.

About The Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy:

The Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy harnesses the University’s broad disciplinary excellence in public policy, along with its innovative teaching, research, and engagement programs, to solve pressing global challenges. The school’s prestigious faculty apply an interdisciplinary and problem-oriented focus to wide-ranging public policy issues as they explore how government choices intersect with people’s lives. The school’s initial areas of focus are data science and technology policy; environmental and sustainability policy; health policy; global security; inequality and social policy; the politics and economics of development; and race, racism, and public policy.

The Opportunity:

As a key leader in the new Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, the Assistant Dean of Communications will conceptualize, build, and oversee strategic communications and marketing across a variety of platforms (digital and print) and units in partnership with the Dean of the School and the Division of University Relations. The Assistant Dean is the lead communications resource and is responsible for planning, developing, directing, implementing, and executing the school’s internal and external communications strategies to advance its mission and maximize the visibility of the school. This individual will work with the school’s departments and partner colleges (e.g., those with shared faculty appointments/programs) and with University Relations to leverage relationships with school administration and staff to proactively foster local, national, and global attention for the school.

Cornell communicators share a mission to enhance and preserve the university’s brand and reputation as a top research institution and a leader in higher education and to support and promote critical programs that serve the university’s teaching, research, and public engagement mission.

Communication services are carried out through a matrixed organizational system in which University Relations houses the departments of News (Cornell Chronicle), Media Relations (pitching and servicing media requests), Brand (cornell.edu, multimedia production, brand management, and governance), Strategic Communications (communications plans, key messaging, social media management), and Cornellians (digital alumni publication). Communicators in colleges, schools, and units regularly collaborate with, and consult, University Relations departments. University Relations serves as a partner and resource for all college/unit communicators.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 7-10 years of experience, or equivalent education and experience, in communications, public affairs, marketing, public relations, media relations, or journalism, with demonstrated experience as a communications leader serving multiple stakeholders.
• Exceptional leadership and vision to provide strategy development to advance the School of Public Policy’s mission.
• Demonstrated experience as a self-directed strategic, creative, and innovative thinker, developing and executing communications strategies to achieve results.
• Exceptional writing, editorial, interpersonal, and qualitative and quantitative research and organizational skills, and the ability to handle multiple projects and relate to diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and gain support from diverse viewpoints.
• Proven ability to effect successful marketing and media campaigns and crisis-management communications.
• Sophisticated understanding of social media marketing and metrics and ability to develop or contract marketing expertise and resources.
• An entrepreneurial and innovative attitude and orientation, together with the ability to see opportunity and thrive in a time of uncertainty.
• Exceptional team-building skills, a commitment to transparency, and a strong sense of ethics.
• Experience working in a dynamic university environment or comparable setting and integrating communications with overarching institutional priorities.
• Demonstrated supervisory skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in government, higher education, corporate or other non-profit setting with a focus on policy-oriented public affairs, public relations, corporate communications, marketing, or related fields.
• Experience in the direction and development of multimedia products, including video, flash animation, digital signage, blogs, etc., as well as active participation in online social networks.

Rewards and Benefits:

• This position is situated in picturesque Ithaca, New York, the heart of the Finger Lakes. Ithaca is home to two academic institutions, state parks, waterfalls, gorges, and a wide range of art galleries, theaters, eateries, wineries, and breweries. Ithaca has something to suit all ages and interests.
• Our benefits program includes comprehensive healthcare options, access to wellness programs, employee discounts with local and national retail brands, and generous retirement contributions. We invite you to follow this link to get more information on endowed benefits: https://hr.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/documents/benefits_overview_endowed.pdf .
• Our leave provisions include three weeks of vacation and 13 holidays: e.g., an end-of-year winter break from December 25 through January 1.
• Cornell’s impressive educational benefits include a tuition-free Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program, tuition aid for external education, and Cornell Children’s Tuition Assistance Program.
• Flexible work options
• Competitive wages.

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University Job Title:

Communication Mgr II

Job Family:

Communications/Marketing

Level:

H

Pay Rate Type:

Salary

Pay Range:

$123,764.00 – $151,268.00

Remote Option Availability:

Fully Onsite

Company:

Endowed

Contact Name:

Salina Hoque

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• Unique applicable skills

• Academic Discipline (faculty pay ranges reflects 9-month annual salary)

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2023-07-07