Communications Manager

About the Role :

Reports to : Director of Communications

Direct reports : none

Location : Hybrid is Waukesha, WI

The Communications Manager plays a key role in managing and executing integrated communications and marketing initiatives that advance ASGCT?s mission, strengthen brand awareness, and engage both scientific and general audiences. This position supports the Director of Communications in developing and implementing strategic, multiplatform content to ensure clear, consistent, and compelling messaging aligned with ASGCT?s goals, values, and voice.

The Communications Manager leads the day-to-day management of communications activities, including campaign execution, content planning, editorial quality, and brand consistency across channels. This role also contributes to campaign strategy, creative coordination, and vendor management to ensure that all communications efforts are cohesive, impactful, and aligned with organizational priorities.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Lead the execution of communications initiatives as part of integrated MarComms campaigns, ensuring messaging, channel execution, and quality standards are met in collaboration with MarComms leads.
• Develop and craft key messages and organizational narratives to ensure consistency across all channels and alignment with strategic communications goals.
• Write, assign, and curate multiplatform content highlighting ASGCT initiatives for both scientific and general audiences, ensuring all materials are clear, accurate, and aligned with AP and house style guidelines.
• Partner with internal teams and ASGCT committees to plan and coordinate campaigns, editorial calendars, and key MarComms initiatives, contributing to content strategy and ensuring cohesive, engaging, and strategically aligned communications.
• Manage and coordinate the Society?s content planning, development, and publishing across all communications platforms?including newsletters, podcasts, emails, social media, and press releases?to ensure a consistent and timely communication schedule.
• Oversee the planning, workflow, and editorial review of communications initiatives, managing schedules, approvals, and deliverables to ensure timely execution and alignment with organizational priorities.
• Support and maintain brand consistency across all communications channels by overseeing updates to web, social, and other content, ensuring alignment with ASGCT?s branding and visual identity standards.
• Support the Director of Communications in coordinating campaign creative and design, helping to facilitate timelines, review cycles, and processes with external vendors to ensure consistent branding and timely delivery of campaign assets.
• Support media relations efforts by monitoring coverage, coordinating with the Communications team and external PR partners, and managing media processes, including press materials, outreach logistics, and credentialing, for major Society events and announcements. Develop and monitor budgets in areas of responsibility to ensure efficient use of resources and alignment with strategic goals.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Skills and Experience

Bachelor?s degree in communications, Marketing, Public Relations, Journalism, or a related field.

Minimum of 5?7 years of progressively responsible experience in communications, marketing, or public relations.

Required Skills and Competencies

Key Competencies

Benefits

Salary

The annual salary for this role starts at $75,000

Culture Statement

At ASGCT, we strive to create a collaborative environment of leaders and innovators who are committed to the Society?s mission and to the people we serve. Employees at ASGCT value these core principles :

EEO Statement

ASGCT provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.