Virginia's Community College System
Communications Editor
🇺🇸 Spotsylvania, VA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Marketing
🗓️ December 18th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
Germanna Community College is hiring a Communications Editor. The role requires managing the college-wide style guide to maintain a consistent voice and crafting persuasive content for multiple channels including the college website, social media, advertising, and email marketing. The position focuses on delivering key messages swiftly and effectively to diverse audiences such as prospective students, parents, alumni, donors, and current students.
Highlights
- Maintain and oversee the college-wide style guide to ensure consistent communication voice.
- Create persuasive copy for the college website, social media, advertising campaigns, and email marketing.
- Utilize email marketing to target niche audiences more effectively.
- Enhance communications related to recruitment, development, and website content.
- Required knowledge of AP style, web style guides, branding best practices, web accessibility, SEO, and email list management.
- Experience in managing multiple projects and supporting marketing campaigns for a complex, mid-sized organization.
- Knowledge of project management methodologies, preferably Agile.
- Strong skills in writing, proofreading, and copy-editing.
- Must be able to work flexible hours including evenings and weekends if needed.
- Position impacts communication with key stakeholders including prospective students, parents, alumni, donors, and current students.
Communications Editor Full Description
Communications Editor
Posting Details
Posting Summary
Working Title | Communications Editor
Role Title | PR & Mktg Spec IV
Role Code | 29094-SW
FLSA | Exempt
Pay Band | 05
Position Number | 29700003
Agency | Germanna Community College
Division | Germanna Community College (Div)
Work Location | Spotsylvania - 177
Hiring Range | Salary is commensurate to experience
Emergency/Essential Personnel | No
EEO Category | B-Professional
Full Time or Part Time | Full Time
Does this position have telework options? -Telework options are subject to change based on business needs- |
Does this position have a bilingual or multilingual skill requirement or preference? |
Work Schedule | Monday-Friday: 8am-4:30pm
Or as scheduled
Sensitive Position | No
Job Description
Germanna Community College is a public, open access institution of higher education in the Virginia Community College System. The College is a dynamic learning organization that serves as a regional leader and preferred partner where quality learning experiences enable students to participate effectively in the social, economic, political, intellectual, and cultural life of their communities. Germanna Community College is centrally located in Fredericksburg, VA between Washington D.C. and Richmond and between the Blue Ridge mountains and the Chesapeake Bay. Full of history, the area offers a community rich with diversity, the arts, technology, vineyards, hiking, canoeing/kayaking and many other activities.
Germanna is seeking to hire a Communications Editor to play a critical role overseeing a college-wide style guide – effectively maintaining the “voice” of the college – and writing persuasive copy to be delivered across multiple channels including the college website, social media, advertising and email marketing. The position will allow the college to utilize email marketing to further enhance how the college reaches niche audiences. This position will create an immediate impact on how quickly and effectively key messages are delivered and greatly enhance our current focus on the college website, recruitment and development communications. This position is essentially the college storyteller, crafting powerful messages to be delivered across all channels to key audiences including prospective students and parents, graduates and alumni, prospective donors and current and returning students.
Special Assignments | May be required to perform other duties as assigned. May be required to assist the agency or state government generally in the event of an emergency declaration by the Governor.
KSA's/Required Qualifications | Experience in a related position Ability to meet marketing goals for a mid-sized, complex organization Ability to support successful marketing campaigns using multiple forms of media, as well as support the development goals and fundraising programs of the GCC Educational Foundation Ability to synthesize complex information into content that is easily understood by external audiences Possess excellent writing, proofreading, and copy-editing skills Ability to manage multiple projects from inception to completion Ability to work a flexible schedule that may include evenings and weekends Knowledge of project management (Agile methodology preferred) Knowledge of AP style Knowledge of web style guides and branding best practices Knowledge of web accessibility and SEO best practices and a strong understanding of semantic mark-up Knowledge of copywriting best practices Knowledge of email list management best practices Knowledge of search engine optimization, accessibility and readability when writing for the web Knowledge of professional marketing principles, practices, and techniques
Additional Considerations | Knowledge of Germanna Community College’s Strategic Plan Knowledge of Germanna Community College’s mission Knowledge of Germanna Community College’s Educational Foundation mission
Operation of a State Vehicle | No
Supervises Employees | No
Required Travel | May require travel depending on need
Role Title | PR & Mktg Spec IV
Role Code | 29094-SW
FLSA | Exempt
Pay Band | 05
Position Number | 29700003
Agency | Germanna Community College
Division | Germanna Community College (Div)
Work Location | Spotsylvania - 177
Hiring Range | Salary is commensurate to experience
Emergency/Essential Personnel | No
EEO Category | B-Professional
Full Time or Part Time | Full Time
Does this position have telework options? -Telework options are subject to change based on business needs- |
Does this position have a bilingual or multilingual skill requirement or preference? |
Work Schedule | Monday-Friday: 8am-4:30pm
Or as scheduled
Sensitive Position | No
Job Description
Germanna Community College is a public, open access institution of higher education in the Virginia Community College System. The College is a dynamic learning organization that serves as a regional leader and preferred partner where quality learning experiences enable students to participate effectively in the social, economic, political, intellectual, and cultural life of their communities. Germanna Community College is centrally located in Fredericksburg, VA between Washington D.C. and Richmond and between the Blue Ridge mountains and the Chesapeake Bay. Full of history, the area offers a community rich with diversity, the arts, technology, vineyards, hiking, canoeing/kayaking and many other activities.
Germanna is seeking to hire a Communications Editor to play a critical role overseeing a college-wide style guide – effectively maintaining the “voice” of the college – and writing persuasive copy to be delivered across multiple channels including the college website, social media, advertising and email marketing. The position will allow the college to utilize email marketing to further enhance how the college reaches niche audiences. This position will create an immediate impact on how quickly and effectively key messages are delivered and greatly enhance our current focus on the college website, recruitment and development communications. This position is essentially the college storyteller, crafting powerful messages to be delivered across all channels to key audiences including prospective students and parents, graduates and alumni, prospective donors and current and returning students.
Special Assignments | May be required to perform other duties as assigned. May be required to assist the agency or state government generally in the event of an emergency declaration by the Governor.
KSA's/Required Qualifications | Experience in a related position Ability to meet marketing goals for a mid-sized, complex organization Ability to support successful marketing campaigns using multiple forms of media, as well as support the development goals and fundraising programs of the GCC Educational Foundation Ability to synthesize complex information into content that is easily understood by external audiences Possess excellent writing, proofreading, and copy-editing skills Ability to manage multiple projects from inception to completion Ability to work a flexible schedule that may include evenings and weekends Knowledge of project management (Agile methodology preferred) Knowledge of AP style Knowledge of web style guides and branding best practices Knowledge of web accessibility and SEO best practices and a strong understanding of semantic mark-up Knowledge of copywriting best practices Knowledge of email list management best practices Knowledge of search engine optimization, accessibility and readability when writing for the web Knowledge of professional marketing principles, practices, and techniques
Additional Considerations | Knowledge of Germanna Community College’s Strategic Plan Knowledge of Germanna Community College’s mission Knowledge of Germanna Community College’s Educational Foundation mission
Operation of a State Vehicle | No
Supervises Employees | No
Required Travel | May require travel depending on need
Posting Detail Information
Posting Number | CLS_4194P
Recruitment Type | General Public - G
Number of Vacancies | 1
Position End Date (if temporary) |
Job Open Date | 12/11/2025
Job Close Date | 12/23/2025
Open Until Filled |
Agency Website | www.germanna.edu
Contact Name | Catra Godwin
Email | cgodwin@germanna.edu
Phone Number |
Special Instructions to Applicants |
Additional Information
Background Check Statement Disclaimer | The selected candidate’s offer is contingent upon the successful completion of a criminal background investigation, which may include: fingerprint checks, local agency checks, employment verification, verification of education, credit checks (relevant to employment). Additionally, selected candidates may be required to complete the Commonwealth’s Statement of Economic Interest. For more information, please follow this link: http://ethics.dls.virginia.gov/
EEO Statement | The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) 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, political affiliation, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or other non-merit factors.
ADA Statement | The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and complies with the Americans with Disabilities Acts (ADA and ADAAA), to provide, reasonable accommodation to applicants in need of access to the application, interviewing, and selection processes when requested.
E-Verify Statement | VCCS uses E-Verify to check employee eligibility to work in the United States. You will be required to complete an I-9 form and provide documentation of your identity for employment purposes.
Quicklink for Posting | https://jobs.vccs.edu/postings/91261
Recruitment Type | General Public - G
Number of Vacancies | 1
Position End Date (if temporary) |
Job Open Date | 12/11/2025
Job Close Date | 12/23/2025
Open Until Filled |
Agency Website | www.germanna.edu
Contact Name | Catra Godwin
Email | cgodwin@germanna.edu
Phone Number |
Special Instructions to Applicants |
Additional Information
Background Check Statement Disclaimer | The selected candidate’s offer is contingent upon the successful completion of a criminal background investigation, which may include: fingerprint checks, local agency checks, employment verification, verification of education, credit checks (relevant to employment). Additionally, selected candidates may be required to complete the Commonwealth’s Statement of Economic Interest. For more information, please follow this link: http://ethics.dls.virginia.gov/
EEO Statement | The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) 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, political affiliation, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or other non-merit factors.
ADA Statement | The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and complies with the Americans with Disabilities Acts (ADA and ADAAA), to provide, reasonable accommodation to applicants in need of access to the application, interviewing, and selection processes when requested.
E-Verify Statement | VCCS uses E-Verify to check employee eligibility to work in the United States. You will be required to complete an I-9 form and provide documentation of your identity for employment purposes.
Quicklink for Posting | https://jobs.vccs.edu/postings/91261
Supplemental Questions
Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).
- * I understand that this position is located in Virginia and I must reside within a reasonable commuting distance or be willing to relocate to ensure consistent, reliable attendance.
- Yes
- No
Applicant Documents
Required Documents
- Resume
- Cover Letter/Letter of Application
Optional Documents
- Unofficial Transcripts
- (877) 340-5577
- ats@ssc.vccs.edu
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