Communications Coordinator (Rhee Lab)

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Institution
Michigan State University
Location
East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Close Date
December 24, 2024

Position Summary
Dr. Sue Rhee is seeking a highly motivated, organized, and creative person to coordinate the online and in person communications of several federally funded life science centers to promote the science and scientists of the centers. The current centers include the Plant Cell Atlas (https://www.plantcellatlas.org/), Water and Life Interface Institute (https://www.walii.science/), and Plant Metabolic Network (https://plantcyc.org/). The strategies and materials built for these centers should be made in ways for them to be easily adopted and adapted by other centers at MSU. 

Responsibilities:
30% Support External Communications: Develop and implement communication strategies to share the Center’s goals, activities, and achievements through newsletters, press releases, social media, annual reports, and a dedicated website, ensuring the Center’s work is accessible to both scientific and public audiences.

40% Content Creation and Dissemination: Develop and disseminate promotional materials, such as brochures, videos, and reports, to share the Center’s research findings and broader impacts with a global audience. Expertise in graphic design is especially important.

30% Support Internal Communication Coordination: Support the Center’s all hands retreat, conferences, and workshops in collaboration with scientific coordinators and administrative staff.

Minimum requirments:
Knowledge equivalent to that which normally would be acquired by completing a four-year college degree program in Communications, Telecommunications, Journalism, Marketing, or Public Relations; up to six months of related and progressively more responsible or expansive work experience in internal communications; news, broadcasting, and print media, and/or marketing, advertising, and creative services; graphic design; word processing; desktop publishing; web design; presentation software; spreadsheet and/or database software; public presentation; or radio production; or an equivalent combination of education and experience

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