Writer/Editor (Enterprise Innovation Institute)

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.

9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

About the Enterprise Innovation Institute
The Enterprise Innovation Institute, the Georgia Institute of Technology's economic development unit, serves all of Georgia through a variety of services and programs that build and scale startups, grow business enterprises, and energize ecosystem builders. As the nation's largest and most comprehensive university-based economic development organization, the Institute's expertise and reach are global; its innovation, entrepreneurship, and ecosystem development programs serve governments, universities, nonprofits, and other organizations worldwide. In Fiscal Year 2026, Enterprise Innovation Institute programs worked with 20.7K clients to create or save 60.3K jobs, secure $7.98B+ in capital investments, and protect 34.7K+ Georgia workers from workplace hazards. As a group, the Enterprise Innovation Institute helped generate an economic impact return of $870.79 for every dollar received from state appropriations in FY 2026. Learn more at innovate.gatech.edu.

Prepare copy for recruitment, development, news and public relations initiatives in print and electronically. Develop and incorporate strategic and targeted messages into copy while adhering to visual identity standards and Institute brand guidelines. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: faculty, staff, students. This position typically will advise and counsel: faculty, staff, students. This position will supervise: NA.

Job Duty 1 -
Write, edit, and proofread copy for brochures, annual reports, view books, web sites, video and radio scripts.

Job Duty 2 -
Participate in client meetings and prepare estimates for client projects; participate in project brainstorming sessions.

Job Duty 3 -
Contribute ideas and deliverables for brand-based marketing and communications initiatives.

Job Duty 4 -
Conduct on-camera interviews with featured faculty, students and administrators.

Job Duty 5 -
Execute and incorporate the Georgia Tech brand in printed and electronic communications applying visual identity guidelines.

Job Duty 6 -
Provide on-going training and monitoring new editorial employees; review work of junior-level editor.

Job Duty 7 -
Review work of freelance/contract editors and writers.

Job Duty 8 -
Participate with graphic designers in art direction on client projects.

Job Duty 9 -
Act as assignment editor.

Job Duty 10 -
Perform other duties as assigned

Educational Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in English, Journalism or a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience

Required Experience
Three to five years of job-related experience

Additional Preferred Qualifications
Skills in use of project management and page layout software and AP or Chicago Manual of Style is preferred

Preferred Experience
Five years of job related experience

• Skills in use of project management platforms such as monday.com or Basecamp preferred.
• Knowledge of AP Style and Chicago Manual of Style is preferred.
• Functional working knowledge of specific computer applications such as Microsoft Office Suite, project management programs like monday.com, digital marketing platforms such as Constant Contact, and AI tools including CoPilot, Gemini, or ChatGPT.

Please provide a writing sample

SKILLS
This job requires advanced skills in writing and editing copy and functional working knowledge of specific word processing and presentation computer applications. Skills in organization, communications and detail orientation are also required.

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 25 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The Institute is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and Institute policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Equal opportunity and decisions based on merit are fundamental values of the University System of Georgia ("USG") and Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of an individual's race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

Salary range: $70,000.00-$75,000.00

Location: Atlanta, GA

Job grade: G07

This is not a supervisory position.
This position does not have financial responsibilities.
No, this position will be required to drive.
This role is not considered a position of trust.
This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).
This position will not travel
This position does not require security clearance.

This position will require to driving your own vehicle within Georgia for occasional travel to client sites for stories.

A successful candidate must be able to pass a background check. Please visit https://usg.policystat.com/policy/19298143/latest