| Job Description: |
The College of the Arts (COTA) seeks a Communications Assistant (hybrid) to join our Strategic Communications team to support ongoing summer projects and events, including but not limited to our Creative B summer program. The Communications Assistant will help us create clear and compelling communications, marketing materials, photo and video content for social media, and disseminate them across many information channels including newsletters, website copy, press releases, and social media platforms.
The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating foundational shifts in the arts and beyond. As business and academic professionals, artists, scholars, advisors, and teachers, we, the staff of the College, embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our colleagues, students, and faculty to respond to and shape that experience fearlessly through critical thinking, creativity, constructive questioning, and respectful dialogue. We seek a colleague who engages with openness and enthusiasm for the work and the mission of the college. We seek a colleague who co-creates a workplace that promotes pluralism, curiosity, a variety of viewpoints, open discourse, and the well-being of all, while striving for professional and organizational improvement. We seek a colleague who identifies as a trusted steward of resources, balancing institutional requirements and the demand for innovative solutions.
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Conceptualize and develop content around summer college events by capturing photo and video materials for marketing efforts. This includes: behind-the-scenes work footage leading up to the event, day-of event footage/photography, and ideating and drafting ready-to-post materials (e.g., Instagram Reels) for social media.
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Responsible for drafting and scheduling posts for various COTA social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn.
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Assist with writing, editing, designing, and distributing content for publications, press releases, email newsletters, and other marketing materials that communicate the organization's events, research, and programs.
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Use project management software, such as Microsoft Teams, to plan content, track work, and collaborate with communications partners.
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| Special Instructions to Applicants: |
Applications must be submitted via the University of Florida’s online application system. Online applications must include the following: (1) a cover letter; (2) a resume / curriculum vitae; and (3) work samples, such as social media posts, writing samples, videography, photography, graphic visuals, print specific designs, etc.; (4) names and contact information of three professional references. The Search Committee may request additional materials at a later time.
If an accommodation due to a disability is needed to apply for this position, please call +1 (352) 392- 2477or the Florida Relay System at +1 (800) 955-8771 (TDD). Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the US. Searches are conducted in accordance with Florida's Sunshine Law.
The University of Florida is an equal opportunity institution.
Application must be submitted by 11:55 p.m. (ET) of the posting end date.
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| About COTA & the University of Florida |
THE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: The College of the Arts is an engine of transformation that generates paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond, while nurturing adaptability, innovation, and excellence. We foster an environment where novel creative practice, leading research, and experiential learning thrive. Our students, faculty, and staff interrogate and respond to the ever-changing relationship between technology and the human spirit. We prepare future leaders in artistic professions and creative industries, while developing student capacity for interdisciplinary scholarship that serves and engages local and global communities. The College offers baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degrees. Approximately 1,600 students are pursuing majors in degrees offered by the College of the Arts under the direction of 150 faculty members in its three accredited schools— the School of Art + Art History, the School of Music, and the School of Theatre + Dance, and in the Center for Arts in Medicine, the Digital Worlds Institute, and the Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship. In addition, the college comprises the University Galleries, and the University level of the New World School of the Arts in Miami.
The University of Florida: The University of Florida is a comprehensive learning institution built on a land grant foundation, ranked one of the top five best public universities in the nation in U.S. News & World Report. We are The Gator Nation, a community dedicated to excellence in education and research and shaping a better future for Florida, the nation and the world. Our mission is to enable our students to lead and influence the next generation and beyond for economic, cultural and societal benefit. UF is a graduate research institution with more than 50,000 students and membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities. Gainesville, which is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s most livable cities, is located midway between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Together, the University and the community comprise the educational, medical and cultural center of North Central Florida, with outstanding resources such as the University of Florida Performing Arts (Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, the Squitieri Studio Theatre, the Baughman Center, University Auditorium), the Harn Museum of Art, the Florida Museum of Natural History and in the community, the Hippodrome State Theatre and Dance Alive National Ballet.
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