Media Studies Communications Assistant
About The Position
The MA, Media Studies program is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Communications Assistants to support the program’s current, alumni, and prospective student outreach. As designer and editing assistant for the MediaLog monthly newsletter tailored to the MA, Media Studies community that includes current students, faculty, staff, and alumni, coordinating as well on social media production. The Communications Assistant will work closely with the MA, Program Director to solicit and aggregate news items, copy edit, manage design elements, and maintain an organized template for delivery to the AMT operations team for and deployment of the newsletter in a timely manner. They additionally send email blast reminders and maintain a social media presence via instagram and additional platforms.
Requirements
- Current student in good standing at The New School with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0.
- Must not have more than 33% of attempted course credits as incomplete.
- Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated interest in writing and publishing.
- Solid technical skills in web publishing and social media applications.
- Experience with Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) or equivalent tools.
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience in communications work.
- Prior experience in news writing and/or digital publishing.
- Design skills for print and digital media.
Responsibilities
- Maintain a calendar for regular beginning-of-month publication of MediaLog newsletter.
- Be point person for any student-related news and events
- Maintain regular contact with with all student organizations and solicit updates
- Manage, in collaboration with the program director, the newsletter submission form.
- Share select submissions with the AMT newsletter aggregator.
- Design visual elements for publication.
- Collaborate on creating norms for a publication style guide.
- Create social media content according to M&C guidelines ready for approval by faculty Director.
- Edit submitted event announcements in keeping with a MediaLog style guide.
- Organize and maintain the newsletter archives.
- Support the Media Studies MA Program in maintaining engagement through multiple platforms.
- Create social media content according to M&C guidelines.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
