Assistant Director, Media Relations
Bronx, NYJob$75–88K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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The Assistant Director, Media Relations supports Fordham University’s communications plan and works to elevate the University’s reputation through timely responses to media inquiries and proactive pitching. The role promotes University news, develops stories highlighting faculty expertise, and supports media outreach and coverage. It also contributes to media databases, newsletters, faculty web pages, and social promotion, while facilitating media access at University events.
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About Fordham:
Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering an exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 16,000 students in its nine colleges and schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in West Harrison, N.Y., the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre in the United Kingdom.
The University offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts; retirement plans; life insurance; short and long-term disability; employee assistance program ( EAP ); tuition remission; and generous time off.
Successful candidates should have a knowledge of and commitment to the goals of Jesuit Education.
Department: Marketing and Communications
Campus: Lincoln Center (LC) - NYC
Position Summary:
Reporting to the Director of Media Relations, Deputy University Spokesperson, the Assistant Director, Media Relations works to elevate Fordham’s reputation by responding to media inquiries in a timely manner. The role also identifies newsworthy events, research, and features, and proactively pitches to appropriate media outlets.
Essential Functions:
Assists the Director with implementing the University communications plan through a comprehensive media relations program to enhance worldwide institutional recognition.
Promotes and pitches Fordham’s good news to national, local, and international news media.
Writes and edits copy for news releases as well as Fordham’s internal and external publications.
Develops and writes news stories highlighting faculty expertise on timely topics involving research, business, and the liberal arts and sciences.
Identifies and cultivates targeted media contacts. Contributes to and maintains media contact and faculty experts’ databases.
Compiles a list of weekly media mentions and disseminates a weekly newsletter to a targeted constituency.
Supports faculty members in editing byliners and op-eds.
Helps update faculty experts’ web pages and web listings of the University President’s media placements.
Works with Social Media Manager to promote placements and expand social outreach to media.
Attends University events and facilitates media access to campus events and facilities.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree.
Minimum of 3 years of media relations experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience using media-monitoring software.
Experience with WordPress.
Minimum Salary: $75,000
Maximum Salary: $88,000
How this job compares
Set against the 1,937 open Communications jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$75–88K/yr
- New York median$107–148K/yr152 salary ranges
- US median$105–160K/yr991 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $82K, is 34% below the New York median midpoint ($124K) — in the lowest quarter of Communications salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 242 open Communications jobs in New York and 1,937 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Communications postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,207 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 815 of the 1,937 open Communications jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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