Specialist, Administrative Graphics and Web - Nonprofit Austin

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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

Job Posting Title:

Specialist, Administrative Graphics and Web - Nonprofit Austin

Job Description Summary:

Responsible for clerical and administrative support, and the conceptualization, planning, design, and production of departmental marketing materials and webpages that are consistent with the college's graphic identity standards.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

• Provides concepts, graphic design, and artwork on a variety of projects across multimedia, from print pieces, like flyers, annual reports, and brochures, to social media, digital advertisement, email marketing, and website updates. Plans, develops, maintains, and improves department's web presence. Designs and produces creative assets including, but not limited to, graphs, charts, icons, logos, animated graphics, videos and websites. Presents visual designs to team and management while clearly articulating design rationale.

• Incorporates team and management edits in a respectful manner.

• Ensures work produced is in accordance with the college's and department’s brand, graphic arts, pre-press industry, and, if applicable, U.S. Postal Service standards.

• Works with vendors to obtain cost estimates for projects within quality specifications, financial constraints, and time schedule for projects.

• Maintains digital assets and adheres to file naming convention. Checks proofs during production stages and reviews quality of final products before release to clients.

• Collaborates with the stakeholders to ensure the needs of the department, the message the design should portray, and its appeal to end users is effective.

• Researches design and technological trends to help ensure the department's design and website reflects current trends and is effective in reaching target audiences.

• Performs administrative duties for a department in support of faculty, staff, and/or student efforts, including examining and answering correspondence, processing and prioritizing office communications, processing mail, answering the telephone and email, arranging conference calls, and maintaining or coordinating the supervisor's schedule.

• Gathers, compiles, and enters data, producing routine and specialized reports and documents; maintains files, records, logs, and other tracking systems.

• May input budget figures, prepare requisitions, maintain budget sheets, log and track expenditures or take payments, or assist in departmental procurement processes.

• Responds to and/or directs inquiries in person or on the telephone; accesses and works with other staff to assist in resolving issues from students, employees, and the public.

• Coordinate NPA social media and newsletter but not limited to posting.

Knowledge

• Advanced knowledge of graphic design, typography, and color principles.

• Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, especially InDesign, Photoshop, Wordpress, Monday.com, Eventbrite, Survey Monkey, BeeFree.io and Illustrator.

• Knowledge of pre-press and printing processes.

• Working knowledge of digital photogr