Communications Manager

9 hours ago

Palo Alto CA United States Stanford University Full time

The School of Humanities and Sciences (H&S) is the foundation of a liberal arts education at Stanford. The school encompasses 24 departments and 24 interdisciplinary programs. H&S is home to fundamental and applied research, where free, open, and critical inquiry is pursued across disciplines. As the university’s largest school, H&S serves as the foundation of a Stanford undergraduate education no matter which discipline students pursue as a major. Graduate students work alongside world-renowned faculty to pursue and shape foundational research that leads to breakthroughs and discoveries that shed new light on the past, influence the present, and shape the future. Together, faculty and students in H&S engage in inspirational teaching, learning, and research every day.

The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford

The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies is the successor to the Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies. Originally founded in 1997, the Center was renamed in 2008. The Center is dedicated to promoting both the academic study and public understanding of the Buddhist tradition. It serves to coordinate, support, and develop Buddhist Studies through academic programs, collaborative research, scholarly communication, and public outreach.

Summary of position

The Communications Manager is responsible for producing and managing all communications for the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford. The Communications Manager develops and manages content for a broad suite of outreach platforms including the Center website, email, event advertising, social media, and digital and print newsletters. This work includes managing and ensuring digital accessibility for the website, editing video captions and timings in YouTube Studio for recorded lectures, and writing post-event articles for the Center's newsletters. This position reports to the Executive Director of the Center.

This is a 100% FTE, continuing, exempt position. This position will be based on the Stanford campus and will be considered for an option of telecommuting (hybrid of working on-site and off-site), subject to operational need.

  • Participate in development of communications deliverables for Buddhist Studies.
  • Write summaries for newsletter after performances, film screenings, and lectures.
  • Develop communications for mailing list, website, social media, and promotions.
  • Produce newsletter layout and event posters using InDesign, event announcements through Mailchimp, resize photos using Photoshop, and other digital or print media as required.
  • Work with vendors for newsletter production, signage, swag, large format posters, brochures, and other material for large events.
  • Compile data, illustrations, photos, pictures, and articles for assignments.
  • Maintain center website: manage and ensure digital accessibility for website; fix broken links; update webpages as necessary.
  • Attend center events for posting on social media.
  • Upload center events to university events website.
  • Work on video captions and timings for recorded lectures for posting on Center YouTube channel.
  • Maintain knowledge by attending webinars, conferences, networking etc. to remain at the forefront of industry standards, trends and technology.
  • Work in collaboration with institutional communicators on media relations content and other areas.

Minimum Education and Experience Required

Bachelor’s degree and three years of relevant experience or combination of education and relevant experience.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with internal communications groups across campus.
  • Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills.
  • Capacity to synthesize materials and communicate information in a manner easily understood. Experience with managing projects to specifications and to meet expected deadlines.
  • Ability to perform detailed work with high level of accuracy and attention to detail.

In addition, highly preferred requirements include:

  • Experience in managing projects to specifications and to meet expected deadlines.
  • Ability to perform detailed work with high level of accuracy and attention to detail on both print and digital platforms.

The expected pay range for this position is $93,678 to $108,979 per annum/hour.

Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs.

At Stanford University, base pay represents only one aspect of the comprehensive rewards package. The Cardinal at Work website ( provides detailed information on Stanford’s extensive range of benefits and rewards offered to employees. Specifics about the rewards package for this position may be discussed during the hiring process.

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