Assistant Director, Communications

Department
 

Booth CDR: Operations - Communications

About the Department
 

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and second to none when it comes to influencing business education and business practices. Since 1898, the school has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business. Their rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education transforms students into confident, effective, respected business leaders prepared to face the toughest challenges.

Chicago Booth has the finest set of facilities of any business school in the world. Each of the four campuses (two in Chicago, one in London, and one in Hong Kong) reflects the architectural traditions of its environs while offering a state-of-the-art learning environment.

Chicago Booth is proud to claim:
-an unmatched faculty.
-degree and open enrollment programs offered on three continents.
-a global body of nearly 56,000 accomplished alumni.
-strong and growing corporate relationships that provide a wealth of lifelong career opportunities.

As part of the world-renowned University of Chicago, Chicago Booth shares the University's core values that shape the distinctive intellectual culture. At Booth, they constantly question and test ideas, and seek proof. This extraordinarily effective approach to business leads to new ideas and innovative solutions. Seven of the Booth faculty members have won Nobel Prizes for these ideas - the first business school to achieve this accomplishment.

For more information about the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, please visit: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/.

Job Summary
 

The Assistant Director of Communications will play an active role in refining, executing, and evaluating the Roman Family Center for Decision Research’s strategic communications plan. The Assistant Director will write for a broad range of audiences; develop strategy and content for the Center’s social media identities; manage event promotion; and assist with web updates and management, marketing campaigns, print production, and overall external relations and community engagement. Will join a fast-paced, highly collaborative administrative team focused on advancing the work of the Center supporting multiple behavioral science laboratory environments, including Mindworks.

Responsibilities

• In partnership with the Director of Communications, refines and executes a strategic communications plan.
• Assists with research; writes, edits, and deploys content in distinct voices appropriate to the audience, medium, and genre, including but not limited to: original content for the RF-CDR website and social media; messages to potential research participants; press releases; email marketing; promotional copy for events, partners, and potential donors; internal reports and memos; and advertising copy.
• Assists in creating content and strategy to engage and grow the pool of potential research participants.
• Assists in managing the Center’s website, including writing, editing, analyzing performance and metrics, and researching industry-wide best practices.
• Creates and refines a social media strategy that engages and grows external audience, helps raise the public profile of the Center, promotes faculty research, highlights the activities of the PIMCO Decision Research Laboratories and promotes participation, and demonstrates RF-CDR’s preeminent position as a thought leader and catalyst in the field of behavioral science.
• Oversees the writing, editing, production, and distribution of multiple email newsletters for the Center, Mindworks, and individual lab spaces.
• Manages and coordinates multiple aspects of event promotion; oversees digital and physical marketing, including direct email campaigns, social media, and print advertising; manages partnerships and opportunities for cross promotion.
• Assists in producing publications that market the Center to potential partners, donors, and other constituents, as well as reports that steward existing relationships.
• Acts as an ambassador for the Roman Family Center for Decision Research in interactions with prospective and current students, researchers, alumni, and other key partners.
• 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.
• Solves a range of straightforward problems, as work assignments are difficult and broad in nature, usually requiring originality and ingenuity.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications
 

Education:

Minimum requirements include a college or