Communications Assistant - Student Hourly

About the position

This position involves a mix of social media management, graphic design, event support, and other communication tasks. The role is divided into four main areas: 50% social media, 30% graphic design, 10% events, and 10% other responsibilities. The candidate will support key social media campaigns by brainstorming and writing content, assist in social media strategy and reporting, and create visual content such as photos and videos for various platforms. In graphic design, the candidate will design promotional materials using Adobe Creative Cloud or Canva. Event support includes marketing and logistics for outreach events, as well as managing promotional item inventory. Additional tasks may include editing and proofreading marketing collateral.

Responsibilities

• Support key social media campaigns by brainstorming and writing social media content.
• Assist in social media strategy and reporting.
• Shoot and edit photos and videos for use on various social media platforms, the website, and marketing collateral.
• Design graphics, posters, and flyers in Adobe Creative Cloud or Canva for events, digital displays, etc.
• Assist in creating general marketing collateral.
• Provide event marketing and logistic support for outreach events.
• Assist with inventorying promotional items.
• Perform other communication tasks as assigned.
• Assist in editing and proofreading collateral.

Requirements

• Must be at least sophomore status as indicated in application materials.
• Majoring in marketing, museum studies, public relations, journalism or related field as stated in application materials.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Some experience with social media as demonstrated through coursework or previous work experience.
• Must have some experience with Adobe Creative Suite (e.g. Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Premier Pro), Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Availability to work some evenings and weekends.
• Available to work in shifts of at least two consecutive hours between 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday as stated in application materials.
• During the semester term of the appointment, the student hourly must be enrolled in no fewer than 6 credit hours.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience taking photos and/or shooting and editing video.
• Experience with writing about science or research.
• Writing and editing skills.
• Knowledge of AP style.
• A working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator.
• A working knowledge of Drupal, WordPress or a similar web program.
• Highly organized, detailed and an excellent communicator.