Assistant Director of Outreach, Marketing, and Engagement

Full Job Description

The Opportunity

Lesley University seeks an Assistant Director of Outreach, Marketing, and Engagement (Assistant Director). The Assistant Director’s primary role is to promote the mission and visibility of the Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative (the Center) through marketing, communication, and outreach. The Center has been focused on a single mission for more than 30 years: to ensure that every child has the opportunity to live a literate life. Through innovative daily marketing and communication, this individual’s primary responsibility is to attract a targeted audience of educators seeking to support their professional development in literacy education . The Assistant Director will develop marketing plans for the Center's website and social media, design and market annual events, maintain communications with new and existing clients to build relationships, and oversee negotiations with clients on contract specifications for professional development. The successful candidate will develop deep, job-embedded content-knowledge related to the Center’s literacy offerings and be a vital partner in strategic planning for the future.

Qualities and Capabilities

The successful candidate will have:

• Bachelor’s degree (required), M.A. or M. Ed (preferred)

• Thorough understanding and experience with marketing, outreach, and customer service strategies and practices.

• Proficiency with office, graphic design, and event software, including Microsoft Office Suite, Outlook, and other tools including HubSpot, Canva, WordPress.

• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.

• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing successful comprehensive marketing strategies.

• Strong administrative skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, follow university procedures, and meet required deadlines.

Located in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lesley University is highly regarded for its graduate and undergraduate programs in the human arts of education, the arts, and applied social sciences. Lesley fosters a highly creative environment in which innovative ideas thrive, theory is integrated with practice and its 6,400 students and 90,000 alumni are empowered to improve and enrich communities.

We offer a competitive benefits package that includes health, dental, life, and long-term disability insurance. In addition, we offer significant paid time off, a generous retirement plan, and tuition programs that enable employees and their dependents to expand their knowledge and skills.

Lesley is committed to the ongoing pursuit of strategic diversity initiatives that help to position diversity, equity, and inclusion as fundamental to institutional and academic excellence at Lesley. In doing so, Lesley strives for a campus culture and community that fosters a true sense of belonging for all, provides opportunity for everyone to participate equally and fully in the Lesley experience, and helps to develop each individual's capacity to confidently and competently engage within and across difference. Given an evolving national context and the rapid change in the demographic profile of our country, the University has made a significant commitment to addressing and enhancing its campus climate and diversity capabilities as an institution.

A letter of interest, CV/resume, and a statement addressing past and/or potential contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion through teaching, professional activity, and/or service must be included for full consideration.

At Lesley University we strive for a supportive and equitable environment where people -- regardless of race, physical ability, age, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and other protected personal identities -- can participate equally and fully as their true selves in all aspects of university life. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the fabric of our institution.

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