Job Number: 201806191321 Full/Part Time: Full Time Schedule: 8AM - 5PM Salary: $93,650 - $111,900
Position Information:
The Manager for Communications & Assessment leads a small team responsible for organizational communication efforts (to the organization, campus community, broader UC community and national audiences), training, documentation and user experience assessment. The manager provides the team with direction regarding the most effective mode and plan for effective communication, training and documentation for the given audience and message. The manager will also lead the annual campus satisfaction survey assessment, work with the organizational leadership to develop plans for service improvement and develop the related campus communication(s) around the given service improvements.
Education:
Education Requirements Bachelor's degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training. Required
Minimum of 6 years of related experience. Required
Minimum Requirements:
Advanced skills in advising and consulting management to ensure that desired institutional messages are delivered to appropriate target and/or broad general audiences. Solid strategic planning, analytical, critical thinking, and project management skills, including skill in problem recognition, avoidance and resolution. Advanced written, verbal, interpersonal communications, active listening and political acumen skills. Solid supervisory skills to select, train, lead, direct, guide, motivate and evaluate professional and/or support staff to produce high-quality work; skill to take corrective action as required. Advanced knowledge and understanding of all aspects of communications, including various technical aspects and requirements, and potential applications. Solid knowledge of financial and personnel administration and management techniques, guiding principles, relevant laws, policies and best practices. Advanced skills to ensure production of high-quality work within budget and time constraints. Advanced skills to create, develop and implement comprehensive long- and short-term strategic communications plans.
Preferred Qualifications:
Advanced knowledge of the organization, including its achievements, mission, vision, goals, policies, practices and infrastructure, and knowledge of current affairs, issues in higher education, health sciences, and/or specialized subject matter.
Current knowledge of the UC Riverside user community.
Working awareness of technical systems in support of a higher education institution.
Additional Information:
In the Heart of Inland Southern California, UC Riverside is located on nearly 1,200 acres near Box Springs Mountain in Southern California; the park-like campus provides convenient access to the vibrant and growing Inland region. The campus is a living laboratory for the exploration of issues critical to growing communities'air, water, energy, transportation, politics, the arts, history and culture. UCR gives every student, faculty and staff member the resources to explore, engage, imagine and excel.
UC Riverside is recognized as one of the most ethnically diverse research universities in the country boasting several key rankings of which we are extremely proud.
Washington Monthly (August 2016) ranked UC Riverside 12th in the nation in its annual University and College Survey.\
Education Trust placed UC Riverside 9th in the nation for closing the graduation gap between black and white students by 1.7 percentage points.
In QS World University Rankings 2016/2017, UC Riverside's Department of Philosophy is #1 in the world for the frequency with which published papers are cited by other philosophers.
U.S. News and World Report Survey (September 2016) ranked UC Riverside 118th overall; earns "Great Schools, Great Prices."
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (August 2016) Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked UC Riverside among the top 151 to 200 institutions. This survey bills itself as "the most trustworthy precursor of global rankings of the world's top 500 universities."
U.S. News and World Report's Best Graduate Schools (2016) including:
Graduate School of Education - 62nd among ranked schools
Bourns College of Engineering - 71st among ranked schools
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
