Communications Coordinator

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Job Description

The Davis Museum is a free, public resource that is seeking to grow its audience through increasing visitorship, which includes students, staff, faculty and the general public.

The Davis Museum seeks a part-time, Communications Coordinator for the duration of the academic year to assist in launching an updated strategy and system for connecting the museum with its broader audiences and communities. This person will work closely with Davis staff to execute and monitor communications strategies for internal campus and external-facing communications streams. This person will design graphics for digital content, posters, and advertisements (SPAM) and work with students to develop additional content. The Communications Coordinator will assist in liaising with the press, publish exhibitions and programming on local community calendars, write public facing emails and post on online platforms.

Primary Position Responsibilities

• Managing social media, outreach calendars, campus screens, and websiteupdates
• Graphic design for posters, digital content, and advertisements
• Outward facing communications such as media relations, draft press releases, craft public facing emails, and newsletter content
• Other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities

• May supervise student workers

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations, journalism, marketing preferred
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Familiarity with social media channel management, promoting brands, and adhering to communications strategies
• Creative graphic design experience for various sizes of content including printed posters, digital screens, and social media posts
• Ability to keep up with current events, think critically, create sound decisions related to promoting the Davis Museum with internal and external audiences to Wellesley College
• Report and track audience engagement on digital platforms
• Understanding of when and when not to use AI tools to generate content
• Photography experience is a plus

Skills and Abilities

• Strong written and verbal proficiency in the English language is required
• Highly skilled in copy editing and proofreading
• Familiarity with a variety of social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, etc.
• High level of computer proficiency with the ability to use microsoft office platforms, google suite, Canva, and adobe suite is preferred

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer’s sponsorship now or in the future.

Position Details

This is an intermittent, fixed-term role working up to 15 hours per week with an anticipated end date of May 31, 2027. This position is not eligible for benefits.

Salary:

The pay rate for this role is $28 an hour.

About the Davis

One of the oldest and most acclaimed academic fine arts museums in the United States, the Davis Museum is a vital force in the intellectual, pedagogical and social life of Wellesley College. It seeks to create an environment that cultivates visual literacy, inspires new ideas, and fosters involvement with the arts both within the College and the larger community. The Davis collections, including some 16,000 objects, span global history from antiquity to the present and include masterpieces from almost every continent. Today, the holdings are housed in an extraordinary museum building, designed by Rafael Moneo, winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. In addition to dynamic presentations of the permanent collections, and installations that support specific coursework and research interests, the Davis hosts a rotating series of engaging temporary exhibitions and programs organized to inform, challenge, and inspire visitors.

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