CENTER FOR RURAL ENGAGEMENT (BL-CFRE-IUBLA)

The Indiana University (IU) Center for Rural Engagement improves the lives of Hoosiers through collaborative initiatives that discover and deploy scalable and flexible solutions to common challenges facing rural communities. Working in full-spectrum community innovation through research, community-engaged teaching, and student service, the center builds vision, harnesses assets, and cultivates sustainable leadership structures within the communities with which it engages to ensure long-term success.

Department-Specific Responsibilities

• Researchs, interviews, writes, and edits feature stories, event descriptions, and website content that communicate the mission, partnerships, and impact of the Center for Rural Engagement.
• Executes multi-channel content strategies by maintaining content calendars, publishing posts via social media management tools, and monitoring engagement and trends.
• Builds, segments, and distributes newsletters and email campaigns through CRM systems while tracking basic engagement metrics to inform future strategy.
• Manages concurrent editorial projects from ideation through approval workflows, partnering with faculty, community leaders, and staff while guiding student employees.
• May support photography and short-form video for stories and events, collaborating with graphic and web design teams to integrate multimedia assets.

EDUCATION

Required

• Bachelor's degree in English, communications, journalism, public relations, marketing, or related field

WORK EXPERIENCE

Preferred

• Professional experience in writing, communications, journalism, social media, marketing, public relations, or related field

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATES

Required

• Valid driver's license with the ability to be insured by Indiana University

SKILLS

Required

• Proficient communication skills
• Maintains a high degree of professionalism
• Demonstrates time management and priority-setting skills
• Demonstrates a high commitment to quality
• Possesses flexibility to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Seeks to acquire knowledge in the area of specialty
• Demonstrates a high level of accuracy
• Highly thorough and dependable
• Ability to solve problems

Preferred

• Demonstrated interviewing, writing, editing, and storytelling skills across print, web, email, and social media platforms
• Proficiency in social media scheduling platforms, CRM/email marketing software, and basic engagement analytics

This role requires the ability to effectively communicate and to operate a computer and other standard office productivity equipment. The position involves sedentary work as well as periods of time moving around an office environment and the campus. The person in this role must be able to perform the essential functions with or without accommodation.

Bloomington, Indiana

$30.00 per hour

15-20 hours per week

For full-time staff employees, Indiana University offers a wide array of benefits including:

• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance
• Health savings account with generous IU contributions
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Basic group life insurance paid by IU
• Voluntary supplemental life, long-term disability, critical illness, and supplemental accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Base retirement plan with generous IU contributions, subject to vesting
• Voluntary supplemental retirement plan options
• Tuition subsidy for employees and family members taking IU courses
• 10 paid holidays plus a paid winter break each year
• Generous paid time off plans
• Paid leave for new parents and IU-sponsored volunteer events
• Employee assistance program (EAP)

Learn more about our benefits by reviewing the IU Benefit Programs Brochure.

Career Level: Part Time Employee

FLSA: Nonexempt

Job Function: Part Time Employee

Job Family: Part Time Employee

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