Responsibilities:  

• COMMUNICATIONS: Collaborates with UREC professional staff to ensure up-to-date and easy-to-understand information is accessible for programs, events, services, facilities, and departmental information. Works with the UREC Services Specialist to ensure content on the UREC website, registration website and temporary facility signage is accurate and up to date. Coordinates representation at campus informational fairs.
  
  
• ENGAGEMENT: Develops strategic plan to prioritize promotional engagement efforts. Responsible for the design and delivery of promotional materials. Responds to requests from students, faculty, and staff to advertise within UREC. Works with the UREC Services Specialist to schedule and submit information for digital signage, email campaigns, and UREC radio messaging.
  
  
• SOCIAL MEDIA & CONTENT: Responsible for authorizing, monitoring and responding to all social media communication on behalf of UREC in line with university policies. Develops content to build awareness of UREC offerings to promote student engagement, learning and program participation. Responds to requests from students, faculty, and staff to advertise through UREC social media channels. Coordinates photography/videography for the department and manages storage and access to these files.
  
  
• LEADERSHIP: Provides supervision, leadership and mentorship to 10-12 marketing student employees and a graduate assistant. Hires, trains, mentors and evaluates these staff members in compliance with all applicable university guidelines. Conducts 1:1 and staff meetings as required to manage projects and timelines.
  
  
• ADMINISTRATION: Collaborates and coordinates with Student Affairs and Health and Wellbeing communications and marketing staff. Serves as an active member of the Professional Staff Evening Facility and Program Supervision Team on a rotating basis. Maintains a filing and record keeping system. Prepares budget proposals and manages fiscal resources within area. Serves on committees as assigned.

Application Review: Begins January 13, 2023 and will remain open until filled.

About JMU: Located in the heart of Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley, the city of Harrisonburg is approximately 120 miles from Washington, D.C. and Richmond, VA. With a population of just over 53,000, Harrisonburg is one of the most diverse communities in the Commonwealth of Virginia. JMU is a selective, public institution with a growing national reputation for offering experiences that lead to an outstanding education and inclusive environment for students, faculty and staff. The student body includes approximately 20,000 undergraduate and 1,900 graduate students, with over 1,000 full-time instructional faculty. JMU offers thriving programs in the liberal arts, science and technology, and professional disciplines at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels. The university is committed to expanding diversity, fostering equity and inclusion, and supporting superlative teaching and scholarship. JMU has achieved national recognition for the high quality of its academic programs, focus on maintaining strong student/faculty interaction, and innovative faculty research.

James Madison University is committed to creating and supporting a diverse and inclusive work and educational community that is free of all forms of discrimination. This institution does not tolerate discrimination or harassment on the basis of age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, parental status, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or veteran status. We promote access, inclusion and diversity for all students, faculty, staff, constituents and programs, believing that these qualities are foundational components of an outstanding education in keeping with our mission. The university is interested in candidates whose experience and qualifications support an ongoing commitment to this core quality.