Social Media/Web Designer

The Human Resources Department announces the position of Web/Social Media Designer reporting to the Senior Director, Public Relations.

Responsibilities include: provide leadership in areas of technical and creative development and ensure the integrity/quality of web sites, social media, and other multimedia projects; design, production, testing, maintenance and prioritization of Web/multimedia and publications projects to meet organizational marketing and communication objectives of clients; manage the university's main social media channels and use them to help RMU meet its strategic objectives; design information architecture, navigational structure, page layout, typography and graphic elements; maintain integrity/quality of the site, design, production, testing, deployment maintenance, documentation and prioritization of Web enhancements; prepare plans to identify WWW goals and objectives; devise solutions to Web/internet problems, programming issues, etc.; analyze and contribute to documentation and authors training materials; collaborate with others to fulfill project plan; as needed, help with developing the overall marketing strategy of the Web project; may lead process improvement team(s) toward developing a unified and strategic Web plan, including the use of emerging technologies and the recommendation of hardware and software; as a team leader, may assign work to others including work study students, vendors/freelancers or agencies; oversees student workers; and performs related work as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Web/interaction design, communications, marketing, design/graphic design or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Two or more years of experience working in a web development environment with demonstrated technical and creative development skills; demonstrated knowledge of Website marketing concepts; extensive knowledge of social media.

• Ability to apply search engine optimization techniques to Web and other online products plus some experience developing solutions using social media.

• Ability to maintain integrity/quality of the web site; demonstrated ability to design, initiate production, test, perform maintenance, create and maintain documentation.

• Ability to prioritize web enhancements to meet organizational marketing and communications objectives.

• Willingness to assist staff and faculty and have a customer-focused orientation.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the latest hardware and software and use of emerging technologies; knowledge and skills in HTML coding, editors/tools and internet protocols including WWW, Web, FTP, Gopher and dedicated client server applications; working knowledge of applicable browsers, desk top publishing, image scanning, graphic design, layout, digital audio recording and CD authoring; working knowledge of Internet/Intranet/LAN and multimedia hardware/software.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills; experience writing for the web and social media preferred.

Exempt

Internal Application Deadline:      June 24, 2013

External Application Deadline:     Until Position Is Filled

Starting Date:  As Soon As Possible

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