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MBL Science Communications & Social Media Specialist
Marine Biological Laboratory, MBL Woods Hole
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) seeks a highly motivated professional to maintain and grow engagement with the Marine Biological Laboratory across our digital channels. The Science Communications & Social Media Specialist will play a key role in developing content to promote the MBL, creating multimedia communications to enhance visual storytelling and marketing efforts.
Reporting to the Director of Communications, The Science Communications & Social Media Specialist will create, curate, and manage content for MBL’s social channels and contribute content for MBL news site (mbl.edu/news) and email marketing to inform, inspire, and engage diverse audiences including donors, alumni, current and prospective scientists, industry partners, volunteers, and local and national general audiences.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Digital Communications, Communications, Marketing, or similar
- At least two years of demonstrated success developing and implementing social media content in a professional role for higher education, business, or other clients
- Preferably prior experience with Sprout Social or Hootsuite
- Experience promoting Scientific Information
- Experience with targeted social media campaigns
- Demonstrated success using emerging technologies to meet communication goals
- Experience running paid social media that generates a positive ROI
- Experience measuring, analyzing, and reporting social media metrics
- Experience using video and image editing software
- Experience using an email distribution platform
- Excellent communication skills and a talented digital copywriter
- Strong project management, planning, communication and time management skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, high-volume environment
- Strong visual aesthetic and experience with multimedia storytelling
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to inspire other communicators
- Broad interest in and understanding of science; background in biology preferred
- Available evenings, weekends and holidays as needed for social media reporting
Compensation:
$70k - $80k/annually