Communications Assistant Position Description

Graduate Program on the Environment

 

Reports To: MES Assistant Director

 

Hours: 10 hours a week when class is in session

 

Compensation: $12/hour; partially paid through work-study funds

 

Start Date: October 1

 

Qualifications:

  • Must be an MES student who is enrolled for at least 2 credits in fall, winter and spring.
  • Excellent writing skills
  • Experience with Adobe inDesign and Photoshop preferred
  • HTML or web design experience preferred
  • Social media experience preferred (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn)
  • Interest or experience in promotional videos, interviews, etc. for web
  • Quick learner, able to take initiative
  • Excellent communication skills – phone, email and in-person
  • Organized and detail-oriented
  • Flexible and able to work with minimal direction, yet able to ask questions to clarify the task at hand

 

Job Duties:

  • Responsible for writing/compiling/distributing quarterly MES newsletter using Adobe inDesign, which requires writing articles, interviewing people, asking students for contributions.
  • Work with MES Assistant Director to update Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn (alumni) accounts; work on getting more ‘likes’ and ‘followers.’
  • Create videos or other interactive media for MES website to increase student recruitment
  • Other web-related outreach duties as assigned

 

How to apply:

  • Submit a resume and cover letter to Gail Wootan, MES Assistant Director by September 18, 2012.  Please email wootang@evergreen.edu or deliver to Lab 1, Room 3022.  Interviews will be held the week of September 24.