Creative Media Coordinator

What You Bring

Education, Experience, Competency or Equivalency Required

• A Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, graphic design, journalism, art or other related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience (typically 1-3 years) within a creative media or graphic design role or function.
• Some experience with website management in programs such as Drupal, WordPress, or comparable web editing programs.

   Demonstrates working proficiency in:

• Brand management; creates and maintains a marketing approach to promoting the company.
• Communicating effectively with diverse audiences, using appropriate media and language; ensures important messages are clearly understood; establishes and maintains productive working relationships within and outside of own area.

   Demonstrates working to extensive proficiency in:

• Graphic design including the ability to apply design principles to the development and publication of organizational information, using graphic tools including creating and integrating graphics into a variety of presentation packages. Tools may include but not limited to Adobe Creative Suite such as InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• The ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control multiple projects with attention to detail and high levels of accuracy; ability to meet deadlines and think strategically to attain departmental goals and follow best practices.

Desired Qualifications

• Knowledge of content management systems and/or social media management platforms such as Drupal, Hootsuite, preferred.
• Some knowledge and experience of University of Iowa or comparable organization procedures, policies, regulations.

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To be eligible for consideration, applicants must upload both of the following and mark them each as a “Relevant File” to the job submission:

• a resume and a
• job specific cover letter

Career opportunities are posted for a minimum of 14 calendar days and may be removed from posting and filled any time after the original posting period has ended. *This position will end advertising/accepting applications after Friday, 08/26/2022 at 11:59pm. 

Successful candidates will be subject to a criminal background check. Up to five (5) professional references will be requested at a later step in the recruitment process.

*This is an 80% (32 hours/week) position with full benefits. Work is primarily on-site with some flexibility for hybrid work arrangements within department guidelines.

Anticipated starting salary range is between $33,600 - $39,200 at 80% time (FTE: $42,000-$49,000).

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