Media Relations Specialist

🔥 4 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🎙️ Public Relations (PR)

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DeVry University

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1001 - 5000 employees

📚 Education

👥 B2C

Education • B2C

DeVry University is a private, career-focused university offering online and on-campus undergraduate and graduate degree programs, certificates, and workforce solutions. Its curriculum emphasizes technology, business, and healthcare fields (including programs in cybersecurity, software development, information technology, accounting, healthcare administration, and medical billing & coding), with services for working adults such as employer tuition benefits, military and transfer student support, and career services. DeVry also includes the Keller Graduate School of Management and highlights hands-on, career-centered learning and student support.

📋 Description

• Proactively identifies and pitches storylines and experts to media outlets • Responds to media inquiries in a timely and accurate manner • Coordinates interviews and on-the-record responses • Develops and distributes press releases, media advisories, Q&As, OpEds, news articles and story pitches • Ensures PR content aligns with organizational messaging frameworks • Cultivates relationships with editors, reporters, influencers, and producers • Prepares media briefing documents and talking points • Develops and maintains media lists • Assists with developing content for diverse communications channels • Assists with media training university leaders and subject matter experts • Posts public relations content on the DeVry newsroom • Prepares coverage reports and conducts daily media monitoring • Assists with implementing crisis communications plans • Monitors emerging issues and supports senior leaders during high-pressure media situations • Collaborates with internal communications, marketing, social media, and other cross-functional teams to ensure consistent external communications • Performs other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in public relations, Communications, Journalism, or related discipline required • Minimum three to five years of direct experience in coordinating communications and media relations efforts and/or working as a journalist or a public relations agency • Established press contacts to garner media coverage • Proven track record of securing earned media coverage • Experience in higher education is preferred • Ability to work under deadline pressure and manage competing priorities • Documented experience developing effective media relations plans • Deep understanding of media relations tactics • Ability to foster strong relationships with journalists, reporters, bloggers, editors, etc. • Understanding of issues facing higher education and for-profit institutions is preferred • Results-oriented and committed to quality through continuous process improvement • Proficient and functional knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook), as well as Meltwater, and/or other media monitoring services • Excellent writing and communication skills, with proficiency in AP Style • Strong interpersonal skills, including a positive and professional attitude; teamwork skills • Strong project management skills • Proactive, reliable, responsible and accurate, with attention to detail