Communications Manager

Responsibilities

• Oversee communications strategy across all channels, including community emails, newsletters, social media, media relations, the website, and University publications.
• Ensure strategic messaging and brand consistency across all content and visual elements.
• Act as managing editor of the University news site and oversee the editorial team, including students and freelancers.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive media strategy to enhance reputation, brand awareness, and thought leadership.
• Provide strategic counsel to internal partners to highlight University news and promote academic programs.
• Create and manage a content calendar to align with broader communications activities.
• Write and assign news releases, bylined articles, e-newsletters, and social media content.
• Assist with crisis management and execute severe weather notification communications.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in English, Journalism, Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, or a related liberal arts field.
• 3 years of related full-time professional experience.
• Superior AP-style writing and editing skills with the ability to tailor messaging for diverse audiences.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to meet tight deadlines independently.
• Proficiency in Microsoft and Google suites.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, team management, and client management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a university climate that promotes multicultural understanding and cultural fluency.
• Ability to balance high-level strategic thinking with daily operational management tasks.

Benefits

• Fourteen (14) paid holidays and paid “gift” days.
• Free tuition for employees and reduced tuition for families after one year of service.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Access to a 403b retirement plan.
• Accrued sick time.

About the Company

St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, is a comprehensive Catholic university and home to one of the nation’s largest colleges for women, with associate and graduate programs for all genders. Founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in 1905, the University integrates liberal arts and professional education within the Catholic traditions of intellectual inquiry and social teaching.