Job description

This is a full-time appointment for a one year term and is classified as a Program Coordinator (C&T, Grade D).

The Communications Coordinator will be responsible for the following tasks:

1. Envision and execute one year of strategic internal and external communications activities that share a visionary, timely, and compelling story of the Yale Sustainable Food Project's impacts, activities, possibilities, significance, and necessity, in connection with 10th anniversary events. Increase the visibility, recognition, and understanding of the YSFP's significance and impacts. Increase the long-term commitment to the YSFP among student, faculty, staff, advisors, patrons, and other key stakeholder groups.
    
2. Manage a comprehensive content strategy. Create, collect, edit, synthesize, summarize, and disseminate written and visual content that is compelling, dynamic, and relevant to project stakeholders. Coach and assist staff and students in creating, editing, targeting, and disseminating prose and images.
    
3. Lead a project web site re-launch, coordinate effective and well-integrated social media use (including blogs, micro-blogs, email newsletters, internal knowledge-bases), and oversee the release of key print communications materials including an annual report or tenth anniversary retrospective publication, a food-focused course listing, and event posters.
    
4. Convene meetings with and collaborate with the Yale Office of Public Affairs and Communications, third-party vendors, and with communications officers in affiliated departments and units at Yale to jointly promote, disseminate, and archive content, including joint event promotion.
    
5. As other duties allow, plan and implement an internal communications strategy. In collaboration with the YSFP Director, staff at Yale IT Services, and the Yale Office of Public Affairs and Communications, test, improve, and assist in the adoption of new Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools, helping to maintain lists and critical information about current and future project stakeholders. As time permits, coordinate archival and database activity for the YSFP, including photo and print libraries, project activity and course databases, and geospatial information.

In addition to the general requirements outlined in the Program Coordinator Job Description, the following skills, abilities, and experiences would be an asset in the position.

• Experience working within a fast-paced small team environment, with limited supervisory or technical support.
   
• Evidence of long-standing commitment to sustainable food and agriculture issues.
   
• Commitment to multi-stakeholder collaboration and building strong, mutually supportive, and positive relationships at the organizational and individual level.
   
• Direct recent experience in sustainable food and agriculture journalism.
   
• Some professional experience working in a small unit within a large institution.
   
• Any of the following professional experiences would be an asset: (1) freelance; (2) NGO; (3) academia; (4) campaign communications; (5) event planning.
   
• Experience with digital ethnography, conducting interviews, videography. Able to confidently, independently, and rapidly adopt new technologies and tools.

Compensation

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Application instructions

Deadline

July 02, 2013