Communications Specialist

Supervisor: Director of Communications

Department: Communications

Qualifications:

• Excellent writing skills, with experience in crafting news releases, longer-form features and social-media posts.
• A demonstrated ability to work with persons from a variety of backgrounds, contexts, races and ethnicities, religious beliefs and traditions, sexualities, gender identities, and abilities.
• Comfort with or the ability to learn photography and photo editing, rudimentary graphic design, and basic website editing via a content-management system.

Hours: 21 hours per week, with 14 of those on campus. Occasional evening or weekend events (special lectures, commencement etc.). Hourly.

Primary responsibilities and duties:

• Write news and feature stories for MTSO’s publications and website;
• Write and distribute news releases;
• Generate and create social media posts, including photos or other graphic elements;
• Work with Admissions and other departments in the production of messaging resources and logo items, with attention to MTSO’s branding and reputation;
• Create and post temporary campus signs and assist in all forms of internal communication.

To apply:

Email the following to ewiggins@mtso.edu:

• Three writing samples demonstrating the ability to fulfill the duties listed above;
• Resume;
• Letter of interest.

Methodist Theological School in Ohio does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnic or national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, ancestry, physical or mental disabilities, military status, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy and parenting status, creed or any other protected class, or other non‐merit reasons. See our notice of nondiscrimination.