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Assistant Director for the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Sept 2025

💰 $73,000/yr($65,000/yr – $73,000/yr)

About the role

The Assistant Director is a scholarly program leader and communications strategist who advances the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics, and Culture’s strategic plan. Combining academic expertise in religion or ethics with strong program management, the role curates and delivers speakers, conferences, and Faculty Fellows programming. In partnership with Marketing and Communications, the Assistant Director leads communications, digital marketing, and web platforms to grow internal and external audiences. The role manages web design and content for Catholics & Cultures, provides editorial support for the Journal of Global Catholicism, and produces and disseminates audio/video from Center events. Major Areas of Responsibility

Work with speakers, fellows and faculty on scholarly aspects of speaker and conference planning and development. Help determine speaker and conference lineup, communicate with speakers, craft introductions, share in hosting, supervise planning workflow, coordinate a/v needs, work with faculty teaching relevant courses to build student attendance as co-curricular events. Develop and execute communications plan to promote awareness and attendance for McFarland Center events and programs.
Draft communications plan each semester. Research and identify target audiences for events and plan outreach to engage faculty teaching related courses, College departments, student groups, families and alumni, and external audiences as appropriate. Create digital marketing campaign and craft messages for email, web, and social media. Liaise on posters and/or other printed materials. Coordinate with Marketing and Communications and on e-news, web features, media pitches and social media opportunities. Collaborate with other College departments on cosponsored programs or outreach opportunities. Pursue partnerships on and off campus to build exposure and audience. Submit calendar listings on MyHC, EMS and external web calendars and sites. Manage social media accounts.
Grow virtual audience for McFarland Center programming by editing, disseminating and publicizing audio and video recordings of lectures and conferences. Immediately post-events, edit lectures and conference sessions with audio/video software for course use and wider dissemination, and post to YouTube and on our website. Share via email, social media, and related networks to build viewership. Work with faculty fellows to shape and enhance that new program and advance research. Help coordinate and attend fellows' meetings, work with the committee to determine future themes, and solicit future cohorts. Manage, prepare and post all content on Catholics and Cultures website and its YouTube.
Edit written content, photos, videos and audio clips to post on website. Generate and manage featured content, calendars, and news items. Liaise with external web designer/developer and College Information Technology Services to troubleshoot and/or add needed functionality and features. Provide design and distribution support for Journal of Global Catholicism. Manage storage of multimedia assets and provide editorial support and design for four issues a year for the Journal of Global Catholicism.

Minimum QualificationsMaster’s degree, (PhD preferred) with an academic background that has directly engaged religion or ethics. Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with faculty and to build academic community. Excellent writing and editing skills. Must be a self-starter, highly organized, and able to coordinate workflow on multiple events. Some demonstrated talent in web design, basic online video production is necessary. The incumbent should bring or have a demonstrated capacity to quickly learn to use programs like Google Workspace, Adobe Creative Cloud including Photoshop, InDesign, Express and Premiere, and Drupal, and or other content management software. Core Competencies

Collaboration: Exchanging information, ideas, and thoughts with others in a manner that is proactive and enhances partnerships
Inclusion: Actively engaging with the values of the College by promoting a work environment that embraces diversity and demonstrating respect for the opinions and beliefs of others
Innovation: Performing one’s job with creativity and proactivity, improving procedures and problem-solving
Mission/Service Orientation: Focusing on service to others and contributing to the College’s collective mission
Responsibility: Taking ownership of one’s actions and accountability for one’s tasks and duties

Additional information:
This is a full time, exempt level position. The College is committed to providing com