Associate Director Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 5-8 years of relevant work experience.
• Entrepreneurial skills, organizational/programmatic skills, experience working directly with students, leadership experience in the emerging landscape of nonprofit news startups.

Nice To Haves

• Leadership skills required to build operations from scratch
• Fundraising responsibilities
• Ambassador responsibilities to represent program in building alliances.

Responsibilities

• Expand and oversee an internship program, forging partnerships with media organizations to establish and organize internship opportunities for journalism minors and burnish a brand for what employers can expect from Brandeis interns.
• Develop strong relationships with nonprofit digital newsrooms in region, creating more experiential learning pathways for Brandeis students.
• Serve as program’s main point of contact for student leadership team (organizing monthly meetings, etc.).
• Meet with each student on our growing roster of journalism minors to map out a personalized internship strategy, advising students on how to advocate for themselves in the hopes of securing a high-quality internship.
• Work with Director to deepen, expand and oversee community connections off campus, particularly through academic-news partnerships.
• Help design courses that provide experiential learning opportunities within the journalism curriculum through partnerships with nonprofit news outlets in the region.
• Lead outreach efforts to help attract more students to the Brandeis Journalism Program, building relationships on and off campus.
• Lead efforts to re-engage Brandeis alumni working in media.
• Establish and lead effort to build a program enabling Brandeis journalism students to shadow Brandeis alumni or allies working in the media world during the winter break.
• Help to build an alumni advisory council and network of alumni mentor.
• Assist Program Director with assorted responsibilities to continue to reimagine journalism education and raise program’s profile, on and off campus, including developing social media strategy and planning and co-moderating campus forums with leading figures from the media world.
• Work with Special Events and Grants Manager on key grant initiatives.