What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mosaec is hiring: Creative Director – University Communications and Marketing in position at Mosaec?
Location : Medford, Massachusetts
Overview : The Office of University Communications and Marketing (UCM) has overall responsibility for marketing and brand management, media relations, and content producing various print and web publications and communications for the university. The office optimizes the coordination of strategies and programs for these areas. The Marketing and Branding group reports up to the VP of Communications and Marketing and produces a wide range of print and digital marketing – from event invitations to integrated marketing campaigns – across all schools and university-wide campaigns. The group comprises Marketing Strategy, Creative Services, and Digital Services and oversees the university’s marketing strategy, brand messaging, visual identity, and directs marketing and lead-generation campaigns to support awareness, enrollment, and fundraising efforts.
What You’ll Do :
- Creative Direction : Collaborates with the creative team, marketing strategists, and business partners to translate marketing and communications objectives into creative strategies. Provides creative direction of print, digital, and broadcast advertising and promotional efforts and provides art direction and oversight for internal and external creative resources. Provides constructive and thoughtful feedback during the creative design and development stages. Presents creative with enthusiasm to business partners – articulates rationale, builds consensus, and manages challenges. Seeks inspiration beyond higher education with a vision for industry innovation and shares knowledge with colleagues regarding emerging trends in design, multimedia, and branding. Keeps up to date on current professional activities (software and technology training, graphic design seminars, etc.). Establishes and enforces brand and identity standards. Fosters key partnerships within UCM and university-wide business planning partners to maintain a high level of understanding of audience and business priorities. Collaborates closely with the marketing project managers on creative resource availability, timelines, and prioritization using shared systems for tracking and project coordination.
- Team Leadership : Cultivates a high performing creative team in alignment with design best practices and procedures, quality standards, marketing strategy, and creative brief requirements. Prioritizes customer satisfaction, by aligning design solutions to customer needs and goals. Upholds Tufts’ core values of diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice. Hires, mentors, and develops staff, focusing on continuous learning, addressing skills gaps, and retaining and elevating talent; sources and manages freelancers. Serves in an advisory role to creative partner agencies and vendors to ensure that all creative deliverables are on brand and of high quality. Sets annual performance goals for direct reports, provides consistent feedback, and conducts performance reviews. Fosters a culture of curiosity, problem-solving, and innovation. Ensures department procedures are followed.
- Individual Creative Portfolio : Maintains a portfolio of high priority creative projects.
What We’re Looking For :
Basic Requirements :
ADDITIONAL QUALITIES :
Pay Range : Minimum $103,950.00, Midpoint $129,950.00, Maximum $156,000.00. Salary is based on related experience, expertise, and internal equity; generally, new hires can expect pay between the minimum and midpoint of the range.
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Salary : $103,950 - $156,000
