Senior Writer

Job Summary:
Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer, the Senior Writer manages communications for the Dean’s Office and serves as the primary writer of the dean’s remarks. The position researches and develops a wide range of content, collaborating closely with leadership, program heads, Communications, and other departments. The Senior Writer strategically highlights HRI’s relevance, achievements, and influence while aligning communications with the institution’s priorities and initiatives.
Job-Specific Responsibilities:
Plans and manages assigned writing projects, ensuring successful and on-schedule execution; managing timelines and progression of deliverables.
Conceptualizes, researches, writes, and edits a range of written content for the dean including, but not limited to, speeches, talking points, introductions, briefings, invitations, correspondence, and memos for a wide variety of external and internal audiences.
Ensures that all decanal communications incorporate current Institute communications strategies, align with Institute objectives, and reflect the Dean's voice and style. Coordinated with staff across Institute to incorporate feedback and maintain consistent and cohesive tone and messaging in pieces with multiple contributors.
Provides fact-checking and highly skilled copy editing to ensure that written content most effectively and accurately conveys the intended message.
Establishes and maintains essential relationships with applicable internal and external stakeholders, gathering and effectively incorporating relevant input into assigned work.
Maintains an archive of all written materials and shares as needed with relevant internal staff.
Selects high-impact excerpts from written materials that can be shared through Radcliffe’s social media and other communications channels.
Creates and distributes internal communications on behalf of the Dean’s office to keep staff informed of news, events, and achievements.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
May supervise assigned staff.
Carries out supervisory responsibilities according to the Institutes / University’s management policies, procedures, and any applicable laws.
Responsibilities include hiring and training, planning, and assigning work, conducting performance appraisals, addressing performance issues, and resolving problems.
Working Conditions:
The work associated with this position is performed in an office environment.
Flexibility in scheduling i.e. work after regular hours may be occasionally required, particularly during busy times of the year.
Physical Requirements:
The demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Employee must have the ability to sit at a desk for a minimum of seven hours a day and complete tasks requiring repetitive use of hands.
Employee must have the ability to see written documents, computer screens and to adjust focus.
Travel across the University campus will be occasionally required.
Additional physical/mental requirements may not be listed above but are inherent in performing the position's essential functions.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degree preferred.
Four years of writing and/or copy-editing experience. Strong research skills and an ability to write quickly, clearly, persuasively, and accurately on a range of subjects related to an institution of higher education is required.
Additional Qualifications and Skills:
The candidate must have extremely high standards in terms of quality of work, attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and absolute commitment to task completion. They must be skilled at diplomatically and successfully achieving goals in a complex environment, and able to balance multiple tasks and shifting priorities under tight deadlines at an accelerated pace when necessary.
The successful candidate will also demonstrate an aptitude for understanding complex issues and ability to translate and simplify them for key audiences.
High level of discretion; ability to work with and manage confidential information, and good judgment are integral to the role.

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
Hybrid