About the Job
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree and documented professional achievement in a relevant field.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated experience working on issues related to strategic communication, journalism,
equity and diversity.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated excellence and leadership in the strategic communication and/or journalism
professions and documented success in engaging diverse and inclusive communities in
professional work. - Teaching experience at the college level in a relevant area of discipline or evidence of interest and
success in professional training and development.
Equivalency Statement: Substantial demonstrated and successful professional experience in journalism,
strategic communication/advertising, or public relations may be substituted for the B.A. degree.
Substantial demonstrated and successful professional experience may be demonstrated by both of the
following: (A) twelve (12) or more years of successful professional experience in journalism, strategic
communication/advertising, or public relations; (B) evaluation by a faculty committee that the
professional achievement of the candidate constitutes equivalency with the required qualifications.
About the Department
About Hubbard School
The Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota is part of the
College of Liberal Arts and is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Journalism and Mass
Communication. The Hubbard School offers majors in Strategic Communication - Advertising and Public
Relations, Professional Journalism, and Media and Information; and minors in Media and Information and
Digital Media Studies. The Hubbard School offers an academic M.A. and Ph.D. and a Professional M.A.
in Strategic Communication.
Housed in Murphy Hall, a state-of-the-art facility for teaching and research of journalism, strategic
communication, and emerging media studies, the Hubbard School is home to the Silha Center for the
Study of Media Ethics and Law, the Minnesota Journalism Center, the Hubbard Digital Studios, and the
Digital Information Research Center/Sevareid Library. Hubbard facilities also include the Murphy Hall
conference center, multimedia classrooms, and psychophysiological communication research labs, and a
focus group room, which is used to support graduate-level experimental research. For further information,
please visit the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication's website, at:
About the College of Liberal Arts
Home to the arts, social sciences and humanities disciplines and programs, the College of Liberal Arts is
the largest college in the University of Minnesota and comprises 31 academic departments, and over 20
interdisciplinary research centers and administrative/support units. CLA has over 1,300 faculty and staff
spanning research, teaching, advising, outreach, and administrative functions. CLA units reside in over
twenty buildings on the East Bank and West Bank of the Twin Cities campus. CLA enrolls nearly 13,000
undergraduate students, over 40% of the undergraduate enrollment on the Twin Cities campus, 1,400
graduate students, and has an annual all-funds budget of $290 million.
CLA is a destination for curious, compassionate individuals who are committed to making our
increasingly interdependent and diverse global community work for everyone.
CLA is committed to increasing enrollment of
underrepresented and under-resourced students, diversifying our faculty across all disciplines, recruiting,
and retaining a diverse staff, and promoting the expression and exploration of diverse perspectives and
viewpoints—so that we all gain the background knowledge and analytical skills we need to understand
and respect differences.
Pay and Benefits