Marketing and Communications Associate, Institute for Diversity in the Arts
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The Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA) is an interdisciplinary program at Stanford that supports visionary arts leadership by stewarding the power of the arts toward social justice. IDA hosts artists, advances arts curriculum, stages productions through the Committee on Black Performing Arts, and involves students in the study of culture, identity and diversity through artistic expression. IDA values the arts as a powerful means for empowering difference, dismantling oppression, and building more sustainable futures.
IDA is looking for a strong visual and written communicator to support the organization’s visibility and growth on campus and off. Reporting to the Director of IDA, the Marketing and Communications Associate will implement an effective strategy to promote IDA’s programs, initiatives, and events using social media, print, email newsletters, websites, and other relevant platforms. This role is a mix of content management and creation, documentation and overall implementation. Central to IDA’s marketing efforts, this role is the point of contact for marketing and communications and will collaborate with Stanford Arts, student staff, and University Communications to contribute to IDA’s storytelling strategy.
In this role, you will:
- Create compelling and engaging visual and written content that reflects IDA’s values and culture. This includes but is not limited to timely creation and editing of marketing campaigns, websites, blogs, emails, and newsletters.
- Manage IDA’s website and social media accounts including scheduling and monitoring posts, engaging with digital audiences and staying up-to-date with best practices and tools to enhance IDA’s communications.
- Promote IDA’s events and programs. Create event listings, manage RSVPs, build out digital applications and engage IDA’s community through effective communication.
- Create and/or commission photography and video documentation, social media graphics, flyers, and other related assets. Post and archive documentation so that it is available widely before, during and after events.
- Partner with IDA’s Director to improve brand guidelines, visual identity and accessibility.
- Partner with staff and other units to ensure consistent branding across all communication materials.
- Be the point of contact for IDA marketing and communication needs and opportunities.
- Review upcoming events, programs, reports, grant summaries, campus documents and newsletters for possible leads to news and feature stories.
- Assist on site with events and programs as needed.
- May manage a group of student staff to support communication efforts.
Please note that this position will be based on the Stanford campus and will be considered hybrid with the expectation to be on campus four days per week during the school year and two-three days per week during the summer. In addition, this position may require working evenings and the occasional weekend.
In order to be successful, you will bring:
- Bachelor’s degree and one year of relevant experience or combination of education and relevant experience
- Demonstrated commitment to promoting and supporting an environment of diversity and inclusion
- Demonstrated planning and/or project management and organizational skills
- Ability to be self-directed to meet expected deadlines and schedules, and take initiative
- Creative problem solver
- Excellent oral and written skills
- Experience with program and/or services marketing preferred
- Knowledge of marketing across channels including digital and print preferred
- Familiarity with market research and data analysis preferred
Don’t meet every single requirement? At the Vice Presidency for the Arts and the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. Let us know in your cover letter how your experience makes you a good fit for us. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!
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The expected pay range for this position is $63,000-$79,000 per annum. Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs.
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