Communications Associate
About The Position
AAAS has an exciting opportunity for a Communications Associate to join our SciPak team within our Editorial department. This position exists to help promote and facilitate accurate coverage of the findings from the Science family of journals – specifically Science Advances, our highest volume journal – in the media worldwide. This includes serving as a liaison between authors of forthcoming papers and their affiliated press officers, across a range of time-sensitive questions, and some 7,000 journalists. Part of serving the latter group, journalists, involves recruiting, curating, and/or editing multimedia content that they can use in their stories. Another critical part of this role is the weekly “construction” of the press package – for Science Advances. They will also report back on media coverage metrics and article tracking. Help us ignite the next era of Science.
Requirements
- Requires bachelor’s degree and 1-2 years communications experience.
- Basic understanding of HTML, web design.
- Basic understanding of Microsoft Office and Adobe programs – specifically Dreamweaver and Photoshop.
- Ability to track and manage several articles across several issues.
- Comprehensive understanding of press communications/media messaging.
- Interpersonal and communication skills.
- Group-oriented.
- Organizational skills.
- Attention to detail.
Responsibilities
- Create a weekly embargoed Tip Sheet for press officers on EurekAlert!.
- Communicate publication schedules, embargo guidelines, press package details, and provide press communications support for authors, press officers, and journalists.
- Respond to a range of time-sensitive stakeholder (author, PIO, reporter) queries.
- Collect and format PDFs for use by press officers and journalists.
- Recruit, collect, and properly format multimedia content from researchers and their affiliated institutional press officers for use in the press package.
- Create organizational documents for reference by the press package team.
- Track multiple articles and their content across several issues.
- Build and update the weekly press package on EurekAlert! and for distribution via email.
- Support other press package team members in various efforts.
- Coordinate with Editorial & Production staff to track changes in workflow, including related to volume.
Benefits
- paid vacation leave
- paid sick leave
- paid holidays
- health insurance
- flexible spending account
- dental insurance
- life insurance
- vision insurance
- retirement benefits
- short- and long-term disability
- life insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
