"Assistant Director, Digital Communications"

The Assistant Director of Digital Communications ensures that the Law School’s digital communications, including the website, social media, video, digital signage, and others, serve mission-driven needs for communication, community building, teaching/learning, and marketing. This position creates, shares, and manages timely, informative, and engaging content that clearly communicates the Law Schools' commitment to excellence in teaching and learning. Reporting to the Assistant Dean for Communications, the Assistant Director works on both technical and content matters to support all facets of the Law School’s mission.

About the Department

The University of Chicago Law School occupies a unique niche among this country's premier law schools. Located on a residential campus in one of America's great cities, UChicago Law offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary professional education that blends the study of law with the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Students, faculty, and staff form a small, tightly knit community devoted to the life of the mind.

• Recruits, trains, monitors, and mentors decentralized content authors who use the CMS, including staff, faculty, student organizations, and alumni groups, and monitors new and existing pages for grammar, consistency in tone, content, design, and architecture.
• Coordinates and performs daily content updates and maintains currency of site content and deletes/archives obsolete or historical content.
• Creates original copy and/or multimedia content for website features as required.
• Coordinates design and technical changes to existing website and works with outside vendors in the bidding, development and implementation of new designs, functionality, and technical upgrades. Identifies and resolves technical problems.
• Monitors and curates content for Law School’s official social media presences, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Goodreads, LinkedIn, and Soundcloud, and maintains knowledge of social media trends and best practices.
• Encourages innovative web site use and helps train and support other constituents at the Law School in social media and email best practices and email templates. Assists in development and maintenance of all official social media presences of Law School departments.
• Edits audio and video for web and social media.
• Advises faculty in use of web-based technology such as wikis, blogs, course websites, and podcasts.
• Creates and maintains occasional microsites managed outside the CMS.
• Responsible for digital signage software and development of content templates.
• Creates and updates long term strategic plans for digital communications and collaborates with the Associate Director of Content on tools and strategies for digital storytelling.
• Stays current with University web-related developments and ensures that posted content complies with Law School and University policies, including accessibility requirements. Serves as the Law School’s primary contact with the University’s Web Services Group.
• Performs code testing on components and works to ensure that appropriate implementation standards are met. Evaluates design alternatives for development cost and solutions using various methods.
• Supports and maintains existing applications. Works with web developers and responds to requests from users.
• Performs other related work as needed.