Communications Associate, Nuclear Engineering in Cockrell School of Engineering
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The Communications Associate serves as writer, content creator, copy editor, and public affairs specialist for the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Area. The role develops and distributes news and research stories, maintains web and social content, produces newsletters and multimedia, and supports communications planning, projects, and events in coordination with Area Leadership.
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Full job description
Serves as the writer, content creator, copy editor and public affairs specialist for the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Area. Researches, writes, and edits news releases and stories. Updates and creates original content for the NRE websites and for distribution on social media accounts. Constructs and sends regularly scheduled NRE e-newsletters.Create short-form videos, reels, graphics and social copyWorks directly with Area Leadership to ensure that key Area messages, news and research breakthroughs are publicized appropriately across all platforms. Provides basic photography needs for news pieces and events.Produce select print materials, including flyers, promotional items, signagePlans and executes integrated NRE communications strategies. Develops and maintains direct and email distribution lists and serves as project manager on a variety of NRE communications initiatives.Supports event programming as needed, creating and ordering print materials, emails, digital signage, and social promotion.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,058 open Communications jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$100–139K/yr38 salary ranges
- US median$22–38/hr358 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 163 open Communications jobs in Texas and 2,058 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
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- Experience
- Communications postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 8 years (1,351 postings).
- Education
- 784 of the 2,058 open Communications jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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