Details
Posted: 15-Dec-22
Location: New York, New York
Type: Full Time
Salary: 120,000-150,000
Categories:
Communications/PR
Salary Details:
Commensurate with experience
Required Education:
4 Year Degree
The Chapin School, an independent K-12 day school for girls located in New York City, seeks a proactive, collaborative, and innovative professional to serve as Director of Communications.
DEIB Chapin’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB): All Chapin students and professional community members are valued and appreciated for their unique identities, including their diverse backgrounds, perspectives, talents, and interests. We expect Chapin faculty to employ culturally informed, equity-focused teaching practices in order to reach all students and ensure they are known and understood. Each individual belongs to and is an integral part of our affirming and joyful learning community. To support this commitment, Chapin actively seeks diversity in its faculty, staff, and student body.
All candidates are encouraged to be familiar with Chapin’s DEIB commitment found on the School’s website.
Job overview: Director of Communications
The Director of Communications position will report to the Chief Communications & Strategy Officer (CCSO) and will join the Communications Specialist and Communications & Advancement Writer to round out Chapin’s Communications Department. This extremely busy department works closely with the Head of School, Associate Head of School (AHOS), members of the Senior Administrative Team and many others across Chapin, including faculty and members of the Advancement, Admissions, College Guidance, Health, Athletics and the Business Office teams.
Responsibilities include:
- In partnership with the CCSO, develop and implement the strategic vision for internal and external communications at Chapin.
- Create, with the CCSO, a comprehensive and ongoing strategic communications plan in terms of messaging/content, vehicles for communications, social media and public relations.
- Define and refine messages/themes for use in marketing materials, such as those for fundraising, campaign, and Admissions, across the School.
- Work with CCSO to implement branding strategies for Chapin’s website, collateral materials, logos, stationery, and more.
- Working closely with the Communications Specialist, who manages the day to day of the School’s website, oversee content and overall maintenance.
- Routinely assess the website to ensure it meets the needs of all constituents and determine, with the CCSO, when an overhaul is needed and/or a new web vendor should be selected. Manage any subsequent RFP processes.
- Provide communications support to the Head of School, AHOS, Division Heads and other members of the Senior Administrative Team, including writing, editing and proofing.
- Work with members of the Communications Department to conceptualize, write and, when necessary, design with an external designer, print materials, including, but not limited to, the Alumnae Bulletin, Donor Report, printed newsletters, solicitation pieces, materials for College Guidance, Admissions and special events, and other items as needed.
- Establish relationships with internal stakeholders and PA representatives to ensure, with the Communications Specialist, that the Weekly eNewsletter that goes to parents and the professional community is robust, informative and correct.
- Work with the Communications team to plan and review prior to publishing the "life at Chapin" stories written each week for the Weekly and posted on the website.
- As a member of the School’s core media team, liaise with media outlets and provide crisis communications support in partnership with CCSO and our external communications firm.
- Direct community/neighbor relations outreach, as necessary in partnership with the CCSO, Head and/or Associate Head of School.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and 8 plus years of experience in communications, including crisis communications, and marketing.
- Excellent writing, editing and proofing skills.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Self-starter capable of managing, successfully prioritizing and executing multiple concurrent tasks, while meeting tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to develop and implement strategic communications plans.
- Demonstrated management and supervision experience.
- Experience in education is a plus, not a requirement.
- Photography skills are also a plus.
About The Chapin School
OUR MISSION
The Chapin School is dedicated to empowering a diverse, ambitious and resolute community of young women to thrive and lead in their world. Guided by our motto, Fortiter et Recte, Chapin considers bravery, compassion, service and respect for self and others to be fundamental values. We believe that equity, inclusion and collaboration are critical to personal growth. By advancing and deepening each student’s agency, confidence and resilience within an affirming and joyful learning environment, Chapin strives to ensure that each student is emboldened to pursue distinction as a leader and contributing citizen.
ABOUT US
The Chapin School, founded in 1901, is an independent, all-girls day school in New York City currently serving 802 students K–12.
Chapin’s signature Focus Forward strategic plan, which guided our work for more than a decade, intensified Chapin’s historic commitment to offering the most challenging academic curriculum while also teaching the social, emotional and other skills that will set the stage for its students’ success in this century. Chapin’s institutional priorities continue to be imbued with the spirit of Focus Forward. We have fine-tuned our
... articulation of the School’s purpose as we approach the third decade of the 21st century. A forward-focused learning community whose symbol is a wheel will never cease to strive toward achieving its vision of cultivating in girls the skills and attributes that will allow them to be brave for themselves and for others.
UNDER ONE ROOF
Chapin’s single building provides a unified learning environment under one roof for all students, the 128 faculty members who teach them and the 85 staff members who support all other aspects of school life. An ambitious construction project to be completed in 2020 will feature an entire floor dedicated to the arts and a gymnasium with suspended running track—all with spectacular views of our urban location. The Hayot Center for Innovation, to open in 2020, will provide our entire learning community the opportunity to extend our commitment to interdisciplinary inquiry-based investigations and explorations, deepening students’ interests through experimentation, invention and the development of out-of-the-box solutions to complex issues.
Our vibrant, inspiring and welcoming new spaces will further our commitment to a forward- focused learning environment that enables all students to embrace the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century to the best of their abilities. With these exciting new spaces as a canvas, we renew our pledge to develop curriculum and pedagogy that reflect current research and best practices, always placing each student at the center of her own learning.
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