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Principal Professional

Career Family: Communications Professional Level: Communications Principal Professional
Career Family Job Summary: Jobs in this career family involve development, marketing, and management of messaging to both internal and external parties. Functions include marketing; advertising; communications; publications; brand management; writing; editing; proofreading; graphic design; web information architecture, development, and design; web content development; electronic communications; social media; news media/relations; public relations; photography; videography; radio/television broadcasting; FCC compliance; and communication projects management.
Professional Level Job Summary: Principal Professionals are responsible for exercising discretion, analytical skill, personal accountability and responsibility in a wide range of areas including academic, administrative, managerial and student services functions. Work involves creating, integrating, applying and sharing knowledge directly related to a professional field. Work is performed at an advanced or expert level.� Principal Professionals are either work leads over others or are considered a subject matter expert in a particular area.
Minimum Qualifications: A bachelor's degree in marketing, journalism, public relations, communications, business administration, business, or a directly related field from an accredited institution. Three (3) years in marketing, journalism, public relations, communications, business administration, business, or a directly related field. Optional Substitution: Related technical/paraprofessional experience may be substituted for the bachelor's degree on a year for year basis.
Preferred Qualifications: Master's or terminal degree in a related field in marketing, journalism, public relations, communications, business administration, business, or a directly related field from an accredited institution. Four (4) years in marketing, journalism, public relations, communications, business administration, business, or a directly related field. Related professional experience as an expert, specialist, staff authority, or work leader
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities: Ability to communicate effectively, both in writing and orally. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees at all levels throughout the institution. Demonstrate a commitment to providing outstanding customer service. Demonstrate an exceptional understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion with a committment to developing equitable practices. Ability to perform duties independently without guidance and direction from other professionals. Ability to articulate the university's mission and the importance of the strategic plan Ability to manage ambiguous situations and/or information and translate them into results Ability to obtain expert proficiency with University systems and processes.
Supervision Exercised: Can supervise students. No cap on # of students supervised (should not supervise permanent staff. Temporary staff supervision is rare and should be closely reviewed with justification). Note: Since temporary appointments can be at many levels a "temp" SME should not report to a Principal Professional
FLSA Status: Exempt or Non-Exempt
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