Multimedia Marketing Assistant

UAA Student Activities is seeking a creative, organized, and self-motivated student to help design and create marketing materials and assist with communication initiatives for the department. If you’re a student interested in building a graphic design and/or marketing portfolio, we encourage you to apply!

This position is in-person and is eligible to work up to 20 hours per week. This schedule may occasionally include evenings and weekends. This position will report to the Digital Content Specialist of Student Engagement.

Training and education will be provided, the proper candidate will have a positive attitude, a strong work ethic and be prepared to accomplish the duties of the job independently after 1-2 months of training.

• Support the Digital Content Specialist with coordinating and producing marketing campaigns.
• Collaborate with the Digital Content Specialist with various graphic projects, such as logo design, merchandise design, and print design.
• Create short-form video content to promote events hosted by UAA Student Activities.
• Provide media coverage of events hosted by UAA Student Activities by capturing high-quality photo and video content for official social media channels.
• Assist in operating the department’s social media (e.g. Facebook, Instagram), including sourcing content, scheduling posts, and developing ideas for increasing outreach.
• Use critical thinking and design skills to assist in the creation of print and digital pieces, while adhering to UAA’s brand standards.
• Other duties as assigned.

To thrive in this role, the successful candidate will be tech-savvy, creative, organized and self motivated. They will have a positive attitude, an openness and willingness to learn and work collaboratively; demonstrate effective written and oral communication skills; the ability to pay attention to detail to produce quality work; basic experience with Google Suite, Canva; and intermediate experience navigating Instagram and Facebook.

The successful candidate will also demonstrate the following:

• Strong written communication skills
• Ability to communicate with a team in a professional and courteous manner.
• Strong desire to learn new things, embrace the notion of continuous improvement, and contribute to a team.
• Commitment to producing quality design work
• Ability to manage social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram)
• Familiar with design platforms such as Canva and the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Ability to record videos and take photos.
• Ability to learn how to edit using iMovie, Capcut or Canva
• Ability to balance multiple projects and meet deadlines

To be eligible for student employment, an applicant must:
a. Be enrolled in the University of Alaska system with a minimum of six credit hours in the current semester of employment; or
b. Have been enrolled the preceding semester for six or more credit hours and demonstrate plans to enroll for six or more credit hours in the next semester for employment between semesters; and
c. Have at least a 2.0 cumulative grade point average (GPA), be in good academic standing, or approval from the MAU Senior Student Services officer or his/her designee.
d. Students enrolled in non-traditional programs of study will be considered eligible for student employment with the approval of the Senior Student Services officer.
e. An applicant must provide evidence of enrollment as outlined above to substantiate employment eligibility.
f. Position reappointment is contingent upon successful progress toward degree completion and performance evaluation.

This is a Student Assistant 2 position working up to 20 hours per week, at a pay rate of $14.10/hour.

This schedule may occasionally include evenings and weekends. This position will…