Communications Manager

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, etc. Must preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Key parts: - Position Title: Communications Manager (but we don't repeat as heading) - Job Category: Academic Staff - Employment Type: Regular - Job Profile: Communications Manager - Job Duties: long paragraph describing duties. - Hybrid remote work may be available after training period. (Schedule? maybe remote work info) - Benefits: list: Health plans starting at $45 per month, 176 hours vacation per year (prorated), 36 hours personal holiday, 9 legal holidays (prorated), 176 hours sick leave for first 18 months, after that up to 96 hours per fiscal year, accumulates without limit, Paid parental leave after six months, Wisconsin Retirement System (pension) with 7.2% employer contribution for 2026. Also note benefits subject to change. - Compensation: Starting at $62,000 and commensurate with experience. (Pay section: we should include only if specific; "commensurate with experience" is vague but we have a starting salary. According to rule: do NOT include Pay section unless posting actually states them. It does state starting at $62,000 and commensurate with experience. That's specific enough? It includes a number. So we can include Pay section with that sentence. Avoid filler like "commensurate with experience" is okay as it's part of the statement. - Schedule: Hybrid remote work may be available after training period. That's schedule info. So we can include Schedule section. - About the role: Could be a summary paragraph from duties? The instruction: use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We need to decide which sections to include based on content. We have: - About the role: Could be a brief overview: "Reporting directly to the Assistant Chancellor for University Relations and Strategic Communications, the Communications Manager serves as a lead day-to-day owner of UW–Oshkosh’s newsroom and media relations operation." That's substantive. - Responsibilities: list of duties (the long paragraph). Could break into bullet list. - Requirements: maybe Required Qualifications. - Qualifications: maybe Preferred Qualifications. - Skills: maybe combine some skills from required qualifications? Could be separate but we might not need if overlapping. The instruction: prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine Required and Preferred into Qualifications? But they have separate headings list: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We could treat Required Qualifications as Requirements, Preferred Qualifications as Qualifications, and maybe Skills as a subset? However we have skills listed in required qualifications: excellent reporting, interviewing, writing and editing skills; strong news judgment; ability to manage multiple priorities; sound judgment; strong interpersonal skills. Those could go under Skills. But we need to avoid duplication. Let's think: The posting includes: - Job Duties (description) - Hybrid remote work (schedule) - Benefits - Compensation (Pay) - Key Job Responsibilities (a list of bullet-like statements) - Department - Required Qualifications - Preferred Qualifications We can structure:

About the role

Reporting directly to the Assistant Chancellor for University Relations and Strategic Communications, the Communications Manager serves as a lead day-to-day owner of UW–Oshkosh’s newsroom and media relations operation. This position combines strong news judgment, exceptional writing and editing skills, proactive media relations, and public-information expertise to tell the University’s story accurately, strategically, and in a timely manner.

Responsibilities

• Manages the UWO Today/newsroom pipeline, develops and advances story opportunities aligned with University priorities, writes and edits a variety of institutional communications, coordinates contributors and deadlines, and maintains high standards for accuracy, clarity, and institutional voice.
... etc. We need to capture all duties from the long paragraph and also the "Key Job Responsibilities" list. We must preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include each duty mentioned. Let's extract duties from the long paragraph: - Reporting directly to the Assistant Chancellor for University Relations and Strategic Communications, the Communications Manager serves as a lead day-to-day owner of UW–Oshkosh’s newsroom and media relations operation. - Combines strong news judgment, exceptional writing and editing skills, proactive media relations, and public-information expertise to tell the University’s story accurately, strategically, and in a timely manner. - Manages the UWO Today/newsroom pipeline. - Develops and advances story opportunities aligned with University priorities. - Writes and edits a variety of institutional communications. - Coordinates contributors and deadlines. - Maintains high standards for accuracy, clarity, and institutional voice. - Serves as a primary day-to-day contact for media inquiries. - Builds productive relationships with local, regional, and statewide media. - Proactively pitches University stories, experts, research, programs, and community impact. - Prepares media statements, talking points, background materials, and interview preparation. - Coordinates newsroom and media needs with social, photography, video, creative, and digital colleagues to maximize opportunities for integrated and reusable content across University communications. - Supports the University Relations function by helping coordinate the University’s engagement with government, business, civic, nonprofit, and community partners. - This may include supporting University and government events, - coordinating partnership meetings and institutional visits, - assisting with chambers of commerce and University-led alliances, - maintaining timely follow-up and two-way communication, - helping advance collaborative opportunities and shared initiatives. - Identifies opportunities to extend this work through earned media, storytelling, and coordinated content across University platforms. - Provides day-to-day direction, editing, and coaching to communications staff, student employees, and interns as appropriate. - Contributes to the development of newsroom, media relations, and writing standards, templates, and resources. - Supports issues and crisis communications through fact gathering, message development, media coordination, and monitoring, serving as backup crisis communications support as assigned. - Routine editorial and media relations matters are handled independently within established University priorities, while crisis, legal, personnel, safety, and high-profile reputational matters are appropriately coordinated and escalated to University leadership and partners. - The duties and responsibilities listed above are not intended to be all-inclusive and may be adjusted or expanded as organizational needs evolve. Then there is "Key Job Responsibilities" list: - Manages the day-to-day operational unit plans to align with strategic initiatives and to meet established objectives - Develops, implements, and delivers communication materials through various mediums to designated audiences - Plans, writes, and edits content for various internal and external stakeholders - Plans and directs unit programs and/or projects to ensure adherence to deadlines and budgets - Identifies, proposes, and implements new or revised unit operational policies and procedures These may overlap with earlier duties but we must preserve all; we can include them as additional bullet points, maybe deduplicate similar ones but we should not lose info. It's okay to have some overlap but we should not invent. We'll include them. Now Required Qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree in marketing or related field - Demonstrated professional experience in journalism, media relations, public information, communications or a comparable deadline-driven environment. - Excellent reporting, interviewing, writing and editing skills. - Strong news judgment and the ability to identify compelling stories and distinguish institutional priorities from external news value. - Demonstrated ability to independently manage multiple priorities, deadlines and projects. - Sound judgment and discretion when working with sensitive, incomplete or rapidly changing information. - Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work effectively with university leaders, faculty and staff, students, journalists and community partners. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience in higher education, government, public-sector communications or another complex public-facing organization. - Experience responding to media inquiries or serving in a media relations or public information officer (PIO) capacity. - Experience supporting crisis or issues communications. - Experience editing, coordinating or providing day-to-day direction to writers, communications staff, freelancers, interns or student employees. - Demonstrated success identifying and developing proactive earned-media opportunities. Skills: Could be derived from required qualifications: excellent reporting, interviewing, writing and editing skills; strong news judgment; ability to manage multiple priorities; sound judgment; strong interpersonal skills. But we could also put them under Skills section. However we already have Required Qualifications covering those. To avoid too many sections, we could combine Required Qualifications into Requirements section, Preferred Qualifications into Qualifications section, and maybe Skills not needed. But the instruction list includes Skills as a possible heading; we can omit if no specific content beyond what's already covered. However we have explicit skill statements; we could make a Skills section with those bullet points. But then we would duplicate content from Required Qualifications. The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; not to invent or summarize away detail. Duplication is not prohibited but might be redundant. Better to avoid duplication by placing skill statements under Skills and not repeat them under Requirements. But then Requirements would be missing those skill statements. However Required Qualifications also includes education and experience; we could keep those under Requirements, and move skill-based items to Skills. That would preserve all info without duplication. Thus:

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing or related field
• Demonstrated professional experience in journalism, media relations, public information, communications or a comparable deadline-driven environment.

Skills

• Excellent reporting, interviewing, writing and editing skills.
• Strong news judgment and the ability to identify compelling stories and distinguish institutional priorities from external news value.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage multiple priorities, deadlines and projects.
• Sound judgment and discretion when working with sensitive, incomplete or rapidly changing information.
• Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work effectively with university leaders, faculty and staff, students, journalists and community partners.

Qualifications

(Preferred)
• Experience in higher education, government, public-sector communications or another complex public-facing organization.
• Experience responding to media inquiries or serving in a media relations or public information officer (PIO) capacity.
• Experience supporting crisis or issues communications.
• Experience editing, coordinating or providing day-to-day direction to writers, communications staff, freelancers, interns or student employees.
• Demonstrated success identifying and developing proactive earned-media opportunities.
Now Benefits: we need to list as
• ...
. Include all bullet points. Benefits text: - Health plans, currently starting at $45 per month. - 176 hours of vacation per year (prorated for start date). - 36 hours of personal holiday, and 9 legal holidays (prorated for start date). - 176 Hours of sick leave for first 18 months. After this period, employees can earn up to 96 hours per fiscal year. Accumulates without limit and does not expire. - Paid parental leave after six months of continuous employment. - Wisconsin Retirement System (pension) with 7.2% employer contribution for 2026. - All employment benefits are subject to change. A full list of current benefits and eligibility requirements can be found on our website. We should keep the note about subject to change? It's substantive but maybe considered boilerplate? It's part of benefits description. We'll include as a sentence maybe in a

after list or as a bullet. We'll include as a bullet: "All employment benefits are subject to change. A full list of current benefits and eligibility requirements can be found on our website." Pay: