Communications Coordinator
The Spence School, founded in 1892, is an independent school for girls and young women with an enrollment of 772 students in Grades K12. We are seeking a Communications Coordinator to join our highly collaborative four-member team in a position that offers a wide variety of responsibilities in a busy and collegial environment. This position reports to the Director of Communications and Public Relations.
Salary $70,000-$75,000
Responsibilities
The Communications Coordinator has exciting opportunities for immersion in the life of the School with two primary areas of responsibility: managing the schoolwide events/calendar planning and coordination, and implementing online strategies and solutions for school communications. The Communications Coordinator supports the planning of the School’s programs and events calendar and is responsible for maintaining the School’s website calendar. The Coordinator is also responsible for essential aspects of school communications such as creating online forms, managing content on the website, ensuring data integrity for directories and managing pushpage emails. The coordinator also assists with photography of school activities and covers communications and news for one academic division. A more detailed list of responsibilities includes:
Coordinate the planning and online publishing of the School’s Key Dates calendar
Collaborate with Facilities Office to approve events and calendar requests in the EMS database
Work proactively with various school divisions to avoid programmatic and facility usage conflicts
Enter, update and maintain all calendar data on the website as a comprehensive information tool for the entire Spence community
Lead news and content development for the website for an academic division and assist in creating the weekly online parents’ newsletter
Collaborate with data services across the School to ensure the integrity of data and protocols for the faculty and staff, students and parents, as well as alumnae communities
Create online forms using multiple third-party solutions to facilitate event and program registrations
Serve as a liaison with web service provider to report and troubleshoot functionality issues
Manage coordination of schedules and distribution lists for all pushpage emails
Assist with photography and videography coverage of school activities
Manage multi-media channels including Vimeo
Supports Spence’s commitment to equity
Other duties as assigned