Manager of Strategic Communications
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The Manager of Strategic Communications creates and edits written materials, develops story ideas and media pitches, and coordinates their distribution and assessment. The role manages media inquiries and interview requests, contributes to editorial planning with internal stakeholders and subject matter experts, supports strategic internal and external communications, and organizes organizational events.
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Full job description
Creates, reviews, and edits written materials including press releases, FAQs, organizational web stories, social media posts, presentations and other content in a timely manner. Contributes ideas to the editorial calendar including coordination with internal stakeholders and story-mining with subject matter experts.Develops story ideas and media pitches. Coordinates the distribution, tracking, and assessment of media pitches and news releases. Manages proactive and reactive media inquiries and coordinates interview requests that support a positive image of the University.Assists the communications team in crafting strategic internal and external communications.Coordinates the distribution, tracking and assessment of media pitches and releases.Manages media inquiries and coordinates interview requests that support a positive image of the University.Organizes and manages organizational events (e.g., townhalls, department-wide meetings, speaker series, etc.).Other related functions as assigned.
How this job compares
Set against the 936 open Public Relations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$105–171K/yr27 salary ranges
- US median$25–29/hr56 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 69 open Public Relations jobs in Texas and 936 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- Deloitte10 open
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (this employer)9 open
- Burns & McDonnell3 open
- Experience
- Public Relations postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 10 years (769 postings).
- Education
- 422 of the 936 open Public Relations jobs (45%) 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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