Job Description
Since 1878, Western University has been committed to serving our communities through the pursuit of academic excellence and by providing students, faculty, and community members with life-long opportunities for intellectual, social, and cultural growth. We seek excellent students, faculty, and staff to join us in what has become known as the "Western Experience" - an opportunity to contribute to a better world through the development of new knowledge, new abilities, new connections, and new ways to make a difference.
Western Science ranks among Canada's top ten Faculties of Science. With 1,215 faculty and staff, over eight departments and six centres, the Faculty of Science is dedicated to advancing the scientific frontier in order to address societal challenges. We work in collaboration with members of the local, national, and international community to inform decisions which impact on issues of environment and sustainability, to build industrial capacity through, for example, the development of multiple applications for big data, and to challenge existing boundaries by conceiving new materials and biomaterials.
The Social Media & Web Asset Coordinator will work in collaboration with Western Communications Teams and consultants, faculty, deans, principal investigators, staff, and students, and have responsibilities including:
- The Digital Communications Specialist will work in collaboration with Western Communications Teams and
- consultants, faculty, deans, principal investigators, staff, and students, and have responsibilities including:
- Designing, programming and maintaining the architecture for the Faculty of Science website (including new substructures)
- using the Cascade Management System
- Leading components of and supporting the redesign and development of the Faculty of Science website.
- Producing digital content plans for the Faculty of Science website and social media platforms
- Operationalizing all new content and reformat existing pages to meet access legislation requirements
- Establishing a page-mapping guide to facilitate on-going management of/updating of the platform
- Producing a user update reference guide to identify content providers and timelines for mandatory content updates
- Liaising with various sources of content production, from members of faculty and staff to third-party contractors
- Writing promotional content for the website
- Producing and scheduling social media messaging
- Formatting text and graphics for uploading through Cascade
- Reviewing html coding of web elements
- Designing multimedia content for the website through photo editing and uploading video content to website through Cascade
- Preparing multimedia content for the website and social media platforms through stock photo research, photo editing and
- uploading video content to website through Cascade
- Producing quarterly quantitative and qualitative report regarding website updates and analytics
- Producing a monthly report on the analytics outcomes associated with Faculty of Science social media platforms
- Stewarding third party service provider (e.g., writer, graphic designer; videographer; photographer) relationships
- Leading components of and supporting the redesign and development of the Faculty of Science website
Qualifications
Education:
- Undergraduate Degree in a related field
Experience:
- 2 years' work experience supporting web content and media platforms in an academic/research environment
Skills, Abilities & Expertise:
- Intermediate skill in the use of Cascade Content Manager
- Intermediate level of expertise in html coding
- General/Operational knowledge of social media (platforms: e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube)
- Strong organisational skills
- Ability to work independently with a considerable degree of initiative
- Professional level of verbal and written communications (marketing and public relations approach to messaging)
- Demonstrated reliability and dependability with the ability to deliver a high quality product on schedule
- Personable and courteous in working relationships with supervisors, colleagues, faculty members, staff and external
- stakeholders
Western offers a broad and exciting variety of part-time and temporary employment opportunities with ample room for job exploration and growth. Within our beautiful campus, you are part of a progressive work environment that promotes work/life balance including access to our state-of-the-art recreation centre. Apply for an opportunity to be part of the Western community and contribute to its success!
While transcripts are not required for the interview, they are mandatory prior to any offer of employment.
To ensure that your application is given full consideration, please complete all relevant sections of the application. In addition, you can choose to supplement your application with a cover letter and current resume.
Consideration of applicants will include an assessment of previous performance, experience, and qualifications. Applicants should have oral communication skills in English.
The University invites applications from all qualified individuals. Western is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace and welcomes applications from women, members of racialized groups/visible minorities, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, persons of any sexual orientation, and persons of any gender identity or gender expression.
Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. If you require accommodations for interviews or other meetings, please contact Human Resources at hrhelp@uwo.ca or phone 519-661-2194.
While trascrupts are not required in the application, they may be requested prior to offer of employment.
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