The Director of Strategic Communications and Marketing is responsible for advancing the division’s top strategic priorities through the development, management, and execution of a comprehensive marketing, communications, and public relations plan for the division and ensuring strategic alignment among all communications deployed across multiple platforms and channels. The individual will devise and lead the execution of strategic public relations campaigns across traditional, digital, and social media, leveraging owned channels and conducting and overseeing targeted media outreach efforts to promote and make university research more approachable, accessible and fun by communicating issues and advances in research for the general public. The Director of Strategic Communications and Marketing will work closely with University Communications and collaborate across multiple units, to include academic units, faculty and university wide research centers and institutes.

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Old Dominion University, located in Norfolk, is Virginia’s forward-focused public doctoral research university with more than 23,000 students, a top R1 research ranking, rigorous academics, an energetic residential community and initiatives that contribute 2.6 billion annually to Virginia’s economy.