Digital Media Associate

## Digital Media Associate Apply:
Hybrid:
Chicago, IL:
Full time:
Posted Today: JR35393
** Department
* * Climate Institute Policy Communications
** About the Department
** The University of Chicago Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth (ICSG) is a groundbreaking initiative that brings together faculty from across the University to advance society’s understanding of our energy and climate future. ICSG integrates insights in energy markets and policy, climate systems engineering, and energy technology to generate transformative ideas, while also fostering the next generation of energy and climate leaders through innovative educational programs.
** Job Summary
** As a member of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth's communications team, the Digital Media Associate will play a central role in elevating the Institute's visual identity and digital content across social media, web, and email platforms. This role is responsible for leading social media graphic and video creation, supporting video production and design, and building out the Institute's evergreen visual content library, while also contributing to broader communications and design efforts including web, email and social content production support.

The Digital Media Associate reports to the Multimedia Designer, with close coordination with the Senior Digital Marketing Lead. The ideal candidate brings a strong visual and technical sense, an eagerness to grow their design skills, and the ability to translate complex climate and energy ideas into compelling visual content.
** Responsibilities
* ** Creates social media graphics and visual assets for Institute social media accounts, developing design-forward content in alignment with brand templates and guidelines.
* Maintains and updates Canva templates for use across the Institute's communications team, ensuring brand consistency; supports Communications Specialists across Institute programs with graphic creation and review, as well as template guidance for campaign and event launches; and manages team access to Canva projects.
* Supports in shooting and editing short-form, platform-native social video content, such as student spotlights and event coverage, tailored to platform and audience, from student communities on Instagram to professional audiences on Linked In, in partnership with Communication Specialists.
* Supports in the development of design assets such as research summaries, 1-pagers, and other digital and print design needs.
* Supports in higher-production video workflows, including assisting with video shoots, footage organization, basic editing, captioning, and formatting video content for platform-specific requirements.
* Collaborates with the Multimedia Designer to build and maintain a library of high-resolution photography and video footage for use across Institute communications channels. Organizes this digital asset library, maintaining consistent file naming conventions and ensuring assets are easily accessible across cloud-based platforms (Box, Google Drive) and team systems.
* Manages the Institute's You Tube presence, including uploading video content, writing titles and descriptions, creating thumbnails, and maintaining consistent organization and tagging across channels; supports embedding and updating video content across Institute websites.
* Supports email marketing production from a creative standpoint, including image sizing, asset formatting, and visual quality assurance. Organizes digital media within the email marketing platform.
* Contributes to the development of an evergreen content library, drafting and organizing reusable written and visual content for use across social media platforms.
* Ensures visual content meets accessibility…