Digital Media and Communications Manager

Department
 

DIV Divinity: Staff

About the Department
 

The Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion builds on a longstanding conviction of the Divinity School that the best and most innovative scholarship in religion arises from sustained dialogue with the world beyond the academy. It contributes to this dialogue by offering scholarly perspectives on the religious questions facing the wider public, while encouraging faculty and students to situate their scholarly questions within a broader cultural frame of reference.

The University of Chicago Divinity School is a space and a community dedicated to some of the most important, most exhilarating, and most humbling questions of humanity. The School is animated by two impulses seldom found together: by the critical study of religious traditions, objects, and ideas, and by the implications of those traditions and ideas for how faith might be practiced, life might be lived, and community might be realized. The conjunction of these approaches in a Divinity School situated at the very center of one of the world’s great research universities has produced many scholars, teachers, leaders, and ideas that have had a profound effect upon the possibilities for thinking about religion, and thereby a profound effect upon the world. Read more at https://divinity.uchicago.edu/.

Job Summary
 

The Digital Media and Communications Manager plays a crucial role in the work of the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion, particularly in the development and implementation of the Center’s communications and marketing strategies. Reporting to the Executive Director of the Marty Center and working closely with its Program Manager, the Digital Media and Communications Manager shapes the Center’s online identity. Primary responsibilities will include website maintenance, social media management, and event publicity. The Digital Media and Communications Manager also develops and oversees the Center’s multi-media projects, including its work in film and audio.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to the Center’s overall research and programming agenda.

• Provides input on and executes strategy for the Center’s online presence, including digital communications and platforms. 

• Manages all digital and social media assets. Associated responsibilities may include website development, routine website maintenance, written and visual publicity, compiling and analyzing relevant metrics based on established strategic goals.

• Plans, develops, and produces audio/visual projects, working closely with staff, faculty, students, partners, and vendors.

• Maintains knowledge of developments in subject matter related to the Center’s mission and goals (for example, understanding how religion is being discussed on public platforms, including in news and social media).

• Manages outside vendors including website developers, video production, and graphic designers to ensure project scoping and timely completion.

• Networks with other units at the University and represents the Center in communications and marketing-related arenas.

• Networks with community organizations and journalists to build relationships and partnerships that advance the Center’s goals.

• Plans, develops and disseminates information designed to keep the public informed of the organization's programs, accomplishments, or point of view, with moderate levels of guidance and direction.

• Accomplishes assigned duties through two or more of the following: written communications; visual/graphic media, which may include Web site development and maintenance; avenues of digital communications and social media. The incumbent is still acquiring higher-level knowledge and skills.

• Solves a range of straightforward problems, as work assignments are difficult and broad in nature, usually requiring originality and ingenuity. Manage digital and social media assets (including routine website maintenance); compiles and analyzes relevant metrics based on established strategic goals.

• Continues to build knowledge of the University, processes, and customers.

• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications
 

Education:

Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.

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Work Experience:

Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 2-5 years of work experience in a related job discipline.

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Certifications:

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Preferred Qualifications
 

Education:

• Master’s degree in humanities or social science.