The Vice President of Communication is the leader of University Relations and reports directly to the Senior Vice President for External Relations and Strategy (SVP). With policy direction provided by the president of the university and SVP, the Vice President of Communication serves as a member of the president’s executive staff and coordinates and facilitates internal and external communications and communications-related strategy for the University of Colorado (CU) System. 

The position coordinates and collaborates with communication colleagues on its four campuses (Boulder, Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, and Colorado Springs). The position provides strategic communication/issues management advice to the university president, SVP and the leadership team, as well as to the institution’s governing Board of Regents. Its primary duties include regular communications, executive communications for the president (and in selected instances, the university’s governing Board of Regents), issues management, crisis communications, media relations, and contributing to and providing support for other work of the external relations team in the areas of marketing, outreach, and engagement initiatives. The position often writes drafts of communications for the president, board of regents and other members of the executive team and works closely with the team to ensure an effective voice for the president in a variety of written and oral presentations. 

The vice president oversees a communications office of professional-level staff at the system level responsible for executive communications, social media, website content and management (cu.edu), and system-wide internal communications (CU Connections). The position also serves as media spokesperson and press secretary for the president and Board of Regents, in addition to selected media relations for state and national legislative issues. This position works closely with campus communications vice chancellors regarding awareness of campus issues that may affect the president and/or regents. 

The position convenes and leads regular meetings of the campus communication leaders to address items of common interest. The vice president also may need to coordinate with the University of Colorado Foundation’s leadership and communications team related to communications and issues management related to fundraising. 

This position reports to the Senior Vice President for External Relations and Strategy and is a member of the president’s executive staff, is an Officer of the Administration, and is exempt from the State of Colorado Classified Staff System.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serves as a member of the president’s executive team and leads the university’s communications, issues management, and crisis communications.
• At the direction of the SVP and in collaboration with leadership team, plans, directs, and executes the overall communications strategy for the president, Board of Regents, and system administration.
• Builds and maintains strong relationships with the media across Colorado.
• Coordinates to advance the president’s goals, partnering with the president’s executive team and other team members on operational and key initiatives.
• Manages the University Relations office to include oversight of the department’s budget and supervision of professional level staff.
• Serves as media spokesperson on issues relating to the president, Board of Regents, system administration and selected legislative issues and selected fundraising issues.
• Coordinates with campus communications vice chancellors and convenes and chairs regular meetings of that group.
• Oversees executive communications, including the president’s monthly electronic newsletter (circulation of 500,000 students, faculty, staff, parents, alumni, donors, regents, community members), social media, selected internal communication and speeches.
• Writes communications and presentations for the president, and for the board of regents or other team members as needed. Works closely with the executive writer on execution of materials for the president.
• In coordination with the SVP, provides strategic advice to university leadership.
• Works with External Relations team to pitch stories to the local media regarding outreach and engagement, legislative and advancement activities.
• Pitches media on stories that are a priority for the president and the university.  
• Under direction from the SVP, contributes to CU’s systemwide marketing, branding and communications vision and strategy.
• Manages social media, multimedia, and video content, to advance communications goals.
• Develops and implements crisis communications plans or major announcements, as necessary.
• Coordinates with CU Foundation and Advancement leaders and communicators on communications/issues management related to fundraising.
• Ensures all communications reflect the diversity of all of Colorado.
• Leads all public-facing communications to ensure timely updates on all outward facing platforms
• Performs other duties and special projects assigned. 

Accountability Reporter, Stocktonia

This role will require understanding of how local government and institutions work and the ability to develop original, in-depth watchdog reporting. The position is based in San Joaquin County, California – a short drive from Sacramento and the Bay Area. The ideal candidate will build sources, obtain public records and analyze data to reveal stories about influence, power and public concerns in Stockton and the county. 

The reporter will play a key role in Stocktonia's mission to hold the powerful accountable, uncover injustices, inform and empower residents and offer solutions to the community’s most-pressing problems. 

The reporter should have the ability to spot high-interest topics, utilize investigative reporting techniques, create traditional and non-traditional story forms and work in both independent and collaborative environments.

Stocktonia launched in 2021 in response to the critical lack of reporting on current events in Stockton and San Joaquin County. It joined NEWSWELL in 2024.

NEWSWELL helps newsrooms become nonprofit and for-community. It provides strategic guidance, innovative solutions and wrap-around operations so local journalists can focus on local news, and newsrooms can best serve their communities. NEWSWELL partners with Arizona State University, the nation’s most innovative nine years in a row, to offer game-changing ideas, tools and research. NEWSWELL transforms local news to help communities and democracy thrive.

What you'll do:

• Identify, develop, report and write quick-turn watchdog/accountability and enterprise stories, as well as longer investigative pieces, that will be of wide interest to the public.

• ​Seek to hold local institutions and public agencies and officials accountable while also highlighting possible solutions.

• Employ investigative reporting techniques, including developing deep sourcing, seeking public records, analyzing data and conducting in-depth interviews.

• Report using traditional written forms as well as using audio, video or other formats as news demands.

• Engage with community members throughout San Joaquin County to uncover untold stories and deepen the understanding of the issues affecting the area.

• Collaborate with colleagues across the newsroom and with NEWSWELL.

• Use audience metrics to help identify topics and stories that resonate with readers.

• Ensure all content is fact checked and meets ethical journalism standards.

• Create an inclusive work environment that values diversity, fosters belonging, empowers others and nourishes a culture that pushes for and celebrates wins.

• Foster a culture of innovation by harnessing fresh ideas and experimenting with new tools, technologies and techniques that enhance digital and social media storytelling.

• Drive audience engagement through social media, SEO and immersive reporting experiences.

In compliance with NYC’s Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is $73,000 - $113,000. This pay range represents base pay only (for 9 months OR for 12 months) and excludes any additional items such as incentives, bonuses, clinical compensation, or other items. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and organizational considerations when extending an offer. 

Librarian for Journalism and Media, Culture and Communication

The New York University (NYU) Division of Libraries is seeking a Librarian for Journalism and  Media, Culture and Communication situated in the Libraries’ Research & Research Services subdivision. This tenure-track faculty librarian supports research, scholarship, teaching and learning, and practice in the subject areas of journalism, communication, and media studies across the university. Building and sustaining strong relationships that foreground equity and inclusion, they serve as the liaison to the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute (Arts & Science) and the Department of Media, Culture and Communication (Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development). 

The Librarian for Journalism and Media, Culture and Communication is intellectually curious, willing to learn, and responsive to the needs of the communities they support. They will:
 

• build and maintain our research collections with an understanding of the complexities around collecting both analog and digital news, and audiovisual media;

• foster proactive and agile outreach and communication practices;

• provide research support directly to students and researchers, building on an existing robust, high-volume instruction and consultation program, with a focus on scale and innovation for future growth; 

• act as a connector and contributor to our current public and research services programs, helping to support both standard and new methods of research, scholarly inquiry, and practice, particularly those necessitated by new and emerging media; 

• take the lead in promoting vital 21st-century competencies like media literacy, visual literacy, data literacy, and AI literacy in scholars and practitioners in the fields of journalism, communication, and media studies.

This librarian works across organizational boundaries in a dynamic and highly collaborative environment. They work closely with colleagues across NYU Libraries globally, including our corps of 40+ liaison librarians serving the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. As a member of the Society, Culture, and Global Perspectives department within the Research and Research Services subdivision, they work particularly closely with social sciences and area studies liaisons who share a focus on interdisciplinarity and global perspectives. 

Beyond fellow liaison librarians, the Librarian for Journalism and Media, Culture and Communication collaborates closely with library colleagues in teaching and learning, collection development, data services, metadata creation, and scholarly communication. Outside NYU, they represent the Division of Libraries in professional consortia and associations locally and nationally.

Research

Faculty librarians also pursue their own active research, contributing their expertise, experiences, creative or artistic outputs, and investigations to build new knowledge and make cultural contributions. The person in this position has wide latitude in determining their own research agenda in their chosen area(s).

NYU Cluster Hiring Initiative

NYU Libraries is participating in the NYU Faculty Cluster Hiring Initiative to build a more diverse faculty community by seeking to recruit, welcome, and support new library faculty working across the Division on timely themes of social importance, such as Inequality and Anti-racism, Population Health and Health Equity, Open Science and the Public Good, and Urban Environments and Politics. 

This particular position is part of our Centering Underrepresented Voices: Anti-Racist Practices in Libraries and Archives cluster, which seeks to center underrepresented communities' voices by bringing in new collections in all formats, adopting and contributing to anti-racist descriptive and metadata practices to support the discovery and use of these collections, and promulgating engagement and research services that draw on and support the growth of new knowledge. For full details about the Libraries cluster hiring initiative, see this link.

About New York University Libraries 

Libraries at New York University serve the school’s 60,000 students and faculty and contain more than 6.7 million volumes. The Libraries supports NYU’s vision to become the first true Global Network University by collaborating with and providing services to our 11 global academic centers and our “portal campuses” in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai. New York University Libraries is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, the OCLC Research Library Partnership, and the HathiTrust. The Libraries participate in a variety of consortia and collaborate closely with Columbia University Libraries and the New York Public Library through the Manhattan Research Library Consortium. 

The Division of Libraries values diversity among its faculty, is committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community and strongly encourages applications from members of underrepresented communities. We are proud of our organizational culture and are committed​ ​to​ ​building​ ​and sustaining​​ a ​diverse,​ ​inclusive,​ ​and equitable​ ​organization​ that supports a sense of belonging for the staff and communities we serve. For more information, view NYU Libraries Strategic Priorities, https://library.nyu.edu/about/general/strategic-priorities/ and Mission and Values, https://library.nyu.edu/about/general/values/  

Telemundo Wisconsin is seeking an experienced Bilingual Reporter. In this unique opportunity, you will represent Wisconsin’s only Spanish newscast with local news every weekday. We are a family-owned company committed to storytelling in our local communities. We don’t have corporate must-run stories or mandates. We have an entrepreneurial spirit and are dedicated to digging deep into what our local viewers want to know about. We offer a comprehensive benefit package including health and welfare benefits, no cost life insurance and in person counseling, generous 401k match, paid time off and relocation assistance!

Reporters work with a photojournalist and are responsible for preparing and delivering accurate news reports for multiple media platforms. The successful candidate will create stories that are engaging and relevant to the local community, interact with viewers on all mediums and contribute to social media platforms. Must have excellent verbal and written Spanish language skills and proven reporting skills with strong writing and solid news judgment. Must have experience gathering content, reporting, and editing. Must be flexible in scheduling and have a valid driver's license.

Weigel Broadcasting Co. is a family-owned media company based in Chicago, Illinois. The company owns and operates national television networks, as well as local broadcast stations throughout the country. Weigel is the leader in the multicast television network space with MeTV, Memorable Entertainment Television, the number-one rated multicast network, as well as the Movies! Network in cooperation with the Fox Television Stations, the Catchy Comedy Network, the H&I - Heroes & Icons Network, the Start TV Network and the Dabl Network in association with the CBS Television Stations, the Story Television Network and the MeTV Toons Network. Weigel produces the original network TV programs Toon In With Me, Svengoolie and Collector’s Call. Weigel's local stations include CBS, ABC, The CW, MyNet, Telemundo and Univision network affiliates, offering a mix of entertainment programing, local news and professional and college sports broadcasts. Weigel and its affiliate companies broadcast network and independent television stations serving New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Houston, Washington, D.C., Phoenix, Seattle, Denver, Orlando, Cleveland, Portland, St. Louis, Nashville, Salt Lake City, Hartford, Milwaukee, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Des Moines, Green Bay, South Bend, Evansville and Rockford. Weigel is the creator of the nationally syndicated music format MeTV FM. For more information on Weigel, visit: https://www.weigelbroadcasting.com/.

Weigel Broadcasting Co. maintains an Equal Employment Opportunity Policy for all applicants and employees. We give fair consideration to all qualified persons and afford all our employees opportunities for advancement according to their individual abilities, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age or sex, or other protected categories. No opportunities for promotion, transfer or any other benefit of employment will be diminished through discriminatory practices. Employees or prospective employees have the right to notify an appropriate local, state or Federal agency if they believe they have been discriminated against.