SUMMARY

The Communications Specialist II at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) plays a strategic role in developing and executing communications materials that support and promote the lab’s mission, research, and strategic priorities. This position creates compelling content for diverse audiences, including elected officials, collaborators, funding agencies, employees, and the scientific community, ensuring clear, accurate, and consistent messaging across print and digital platforms. By translating complex scientific concepts into accessible narratives and managing high-level communications projects, the role drives engagement, raises awareness, and enhances the visibility of LLE and its research programs.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Strategic Content Development and Messaging: Develops high-level communications strategies and materials that align with and promote the science, mission, and strategic priorities of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics and its research programs. Tailors messaging to diverse audiences such as elected officials, collaborators, funding agencies, students, employees, and the scientific community. Ensures consistency and professionalism across all print and digital platforms by adhering to LLE and University style guides, brand voice, and tone.

Creative Content Creation and Writing: Generates compelling story ideas and creates content for platforms such as publications, email campaigns, websites, and social media, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and engagement. Conducts interviews with researchers, technical staff, students, and leadership to gather insights and translate complex scientific concepts into accessible narratives for both technical and nontechnical audiences, effectively communicating research and impact.

Coordination and Alignment: Builds and maintains relationships with key constituents and partner institutions, and the University of Rochester to execute on communications plans and projects with a high degree of professionalism, judgment, and understanding of needs and goals.

Project Management and Collaboration: Collaborates with leadership, program managers, scientists, creative staff, web designers, and other team members to execute communications projects, ensure polished layouts for web and social media content to support outreach and institutional goals

Other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

PAY RANGE: $61,000.00 – $85,400.00 Annually

The referenced pay range represents the minimum and maximum compensation for this job. Individual annual salaries/hourly rates are set within the job’s compensation range, and determined by considering factors including, but not limited to, market data, education, experience, qualifications, expertise of the individual, and internal equity considerations.