Job Profile:
Creative Services Specialist 2
Job Family:
Creative Services
Time Type:
Full time
Max Pay – Depends on experience:
$63,000.00 USD Annual
Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree and three (3) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.
Job Description:
Salary Range: $59,000 - $63,000 DOE
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University seeks a marketing-minded media creator to advance the school’s recruitment and engagement goals through strong strategic communication. Working as part of a team of communications professionals, the specialist will work collaboratively across the school and with university partners to promote the school’s community, achievements and brand through creative storytelling and strategic organic social content. This position serves as the school’s lead social media storyteller, community manager and multimedia creator.
The successful candidate will be an audience-first social- and multimedia storyteller with skills befitting the nation’s leading journalism and mass communications school. They will proactively mine stories from the Cronkite community, efficiently create compelling visual media, engage the school’s digital audiences and creatively respond to performance metrics.
This is a full-time, benefits-eligible position performed at the school’s Downtown Phoenix campus.
Essential Duties:
- Create written, visual and multimedia content for the school’s social and digital platforms on deadline and in compliance with ASU Brand standards and AP Style
- Cover school and university events live, creating instant and short-deadline photo, video and graphics content
- Plan, create and schedule social media content according to editorial priorities, school events, academic and special initiatives calendars
- Proactively engage with school stakeholders and community members to mine and tell effective stories in pursuit of school recruitment and engagement goals
- Create and edit compelling visual media (including photo, video and graphics) using the Adobe Creative Suite and other platforms as appropriate
- Serve as the school’s community manager, engaging audiences where they are
- Measure and report on digital content performance
- Use native social media platform data, site data and third-party tools to measure and report platform and content performance
- Coordinate visual media with team members
- Continuously develop as a storyteller, pursuing professional development opportunities for growth
- Serve as liaison to related central university communications teams
- Other duties as assigned
Desired Qualifications:
- A strong portfolio of organic social and multimedia content and campaign work
- Demonstrated experience using organic social media to advance strategic goals
- Demonstrated experience in community management and engagement
- Strong writing and editing skills, including use of AP Style
- Strong visual media production skills and fluency in the Adobe Creative Cloud suite
- Experience using professional camera equipment for photo and video production
- Experience creating or producing digital and social content/campaigns at a professional content organization or agency
- Experience creating and managing a content calendar and social planning tools (e.g. Hootsuite)
- Demonstrated experience using a combination of native social media platform data (e.g. Meta), site data (e.g. GA4) and third-party tools (e.g. SparkToro, Brandwatch) to measure performance, report progress and pivot strategy
- Demonstrated experience using a project management system (e.g. Asana, Monday.com, Basecamp)
- Experience creating content at live events, including real-time composition and posting
- Creating and directing photo and video content (for example, managing marketing photo shoots)
- Experience using content and/or campaigns to advance higher education admissions goals
Working Environment:
- This position requires work in person at the Cronkite School of ASU’s Downtown Phoenix Campus
- Activities are performed in an environmentally controlled office setting subject to extended periods of sitting, keyboarding and manipulating a computer mouse
- Travel with participants to provide support for operations of the program
- Required to stand for varying lengths of time
- Regular activities require ability to quickly change priorities, which may include and/or are subject to resolution of conflicts
- Communicate professionally to perform essential duties
- Ability to lift 25 pounds
Driving Requirement:
Driving is not required for this position.
Location:
Campus: Downtown Phoenix
Funding:
No Federal Funding
Instructions to Apply:
Current Employees and Students should apply directly within Workday using the Jobs Hub. Use this link and log in using SSO:
https://www.myworkday.com/asu/d/inst/1$9925/9925$15006.htmld
To be considered, your application must include all of the following attachments:
Note: Multiple documents can be submitted into the attachment box. Alternatively, merge all documents into one PDF for submission.
Please include all employment information in month/year format (e.g., 6/88 to 8/94), job title, job duties and name of employer for each position. Resume should clearly illustrate how prior knowledge and experience meets the Minimum and Desired qualifications of this position. NOTE: GA and Intern positions are counted as .5 for job experience (ie. 1 year equals 6 months experience equivalency). Only electronic applications are accepted for this position.
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