Position Summary:

Episcopal High School seeks an experienced communications professional to complete its four-person communications team, which is part of the School’s Advancement Office. Guided by its founding principles of honor, academic distinction, spiritual growth, and community, Episcopal High School is a 100% boarding school located in Alexandria, Va., serving 440+ students in grades 9-12. The Communications Team focuses on highlighting and celebrating the distinctive aspects of Episcopal and the achievements of its students, faculty, staff, and alumni. By fostering strong relationships and school pride, the communications team plays an integral role in engaging all members of the community to actively support the School’s mission and strategic priorities. 

The associate director for publications is a full-time, year-round, in-office position reporting to the director of communications. This individual is responsible for planning, writing, and managing strong and engaging content that supports the School’s mission and goals across all forms of print and digital media, with primary responsibility for publication of Episcopal’s award-winning magazines and Annual Report. The successful candidate will be a strong writer and strategic thinker with publications experience and proven success working with various partners to manage multiple projects simultaneously. Ideal candidates will be enthusiastic about joining a highly collaborative team, motivated to do excellent work, and eager to support Episcopal’s mission and community. As a staff position, this role does not qualify for on-campus housing. 

Essential duties:

• Conceives, writes, edits, and manages work with an outside designer for the production of “EHS: The Magazine of Episcopal High School,” the School’s bi-annual magazine, “Four Columns,” a publication covering spring at The High School, and the School’s Annual Report.

• Manages, writes, edits, and produces the monthly in-house alumni and parent digital newsletters, as well as bi-annual community editions, covering stories about life on campus.

• Supports the creation of various print materials including fundraising brochures.

• Writes and edits copy for print and digital collateral including the School’s website.

• Reports the news of the School through feature writing, news stories, and general writing to inform both internal and external audiences. 

• Supports content development (print and digital) and editing for all-School communications.

Requirements:

• A bachelor’s degree or higher in journalism, English, communications, or related field.

• At least five years of relevant, full-time experience in independent schools, higher education, nonprofits, or a public relations or marketing office.

• Excellent oral and written communications skills.

• Proven skills as a writer, editor, and proofreader.

• Astute judgement and discretion in handling confidential institutional information.

• Expertise managing print and digital projects from conception to completion. 

• Experience working with commercial printers.

Preferred but not required:

• Proficiency with Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, and Canva.

• Experience with web-content management systems.

How to Apply:

Interested individuals who meet the requirements should click here to apply. Along with completing the online application, candidates should submit a cover letter, resume, three writing samples of any length, and three samples of a digital or print product that they either designed or oversaw, with a brief explanation of their role.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:
The Episcopal High School provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, marital status, familial status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, disability or any other protected category in accordance with applicable Federal, State and local laws.

About Episcopal High School

Founded as the first high school in the state of Virginia in 1839, Episcopal High School is an independent, co-ed, college preparatory boarding school that values academic excellence, honor, service, and transformational adult-student relationships. The School is a 100% boarding community with 450 students from 26 states and 19 countries. The School seeks to attract a talented and diverse student body, faculty, staff, and administration to enrich the learning experience and offers robust programming in academics, athletics, service learning, arts, and activities while emphasizing a strong spiritual ethos through its chapel program. With its campus just seven miles from the White House, Episcopal has developed its new McCain-Ravenel Center for Intellectual and Moral Courage to create innovative uses of the educational resources of Washington to foster the skills and personal qualities identified in its Portrait of a Graduate developed with its Strategic Plan in 2018.

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