About the Role
Assists in a range of communications and marketing initiatives within the Office of College Relations & Marketing, supporting the district's news spaces and promoting the college's marketing and communications strategies.
Responsibilities
- Supports communication that promotes the college's marketing and communications strategies.
- Assists in coordinating communications strategies, media engagement, and news writing.
- Writes and edits news communications including content for social media platforms, media advisories, news releases, feature stories, publications, and other storytelling opportunities.
- Identifies newsworthy topics and develops news stories for students and the community.
- Conceptualizes engaging content from start to finish, including conducting necessary research and interviews to writing and editing for multiple news platforms.
- Enter data, maintaining files, and performing other clerical duties.
Requirements
- Knowledge of AP style writing.
- Knowledge of news-style writing.
- Familiarity with the regional community.
- Familiarity and working knowledge of Google Docs, WordPress.
- Demonstrate effective customer service and communication techniques.
- Maintain an adaptive & cooperative work schedule.
- Represent the college with professionalism and diplomacy.
- Basic practices of media relations and public relations.
- Ability to locate, digest, and compile information quickly and accurately.
- Ability to write quickly and effectively at a moment's notice.
- Maintain confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
- Establish and maintaining effective working relationships.
- Maintain an established work schedule.
- Strong interpersonal and teamwork abilities.
- Effectively using strong interpersonal and communications skills, including tact and diplomacy.
- Effectively using organizational and planning skills.
- Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.
- Use communication platforms such as Google Docs, Google Sheets, Word, Excel.
- Reliable Transportation.
- Driving between ACC Campus locations will be required.
- Work safely and follow safety rules. Report unsafe working conditions and behavior. Take reasonable and prudent actions to prevent others from engaging in unsafe practices.
Skills
- Strong verbal and writing/grammatical skills, as well as the ability to present information and ideas logically and clearly; keen eye for detail.
- Effective customer orientation when working with a multicultural population.
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- Hourly
- Part-time
Experience Level
- None
Salary/Compensations
- $23.00/hour
About the Company
- Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.
- We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.
- We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.
- As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:
- Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching
- Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities
- Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.
- Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes
- Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others
- Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC.
Equal Opportunity
- As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.
- Austin Community College produces an Annual Security Report as required by the Clery Act. This report includes statistics from the previous three years concerning reported crime that occurred on campus; public property adjacent to and accessible from campus; and in certain non-campus buildings/property owned or controlled by ACC. The report includes institutional policies concerning campus security and other safety information.
- For direct access to the current Annual Security Report, visit www.austincc.edu/asr . You may obtain a hard copy by contacting the Clery Compliance Officer ( CleryComplianceOfficer@austincc.edu ). For an overview, see ACC's Clery Act website.
