Join Our Team: Become a Communications Assistant
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Join the Honors College Communications Team!
Commonwealth Honors College is seeking several students for part-time communications assistant positions (5-10 hours/week) during Spring 2025. Successful candidates will join our student team responsible for communications and marketing for the college. This role includes training during the spring semester, with the expectation of fully taking over responsibilities in the 2025-2026 academic year.
The ideal candidate is a motivated self-starter with a strong record of meeting deadlines, following directions, and working independently.
Responsibilities:
- Generate, edit, publish and share regular content on social media (original text, images, or video) that builds meaningful connections and encourages CHC community members to take action
- Strategize editorial calendar for CHC social media channels in collaboration with the Director of Communications
- Optimize CHC social media pages within each platform to increase the visibility of the college’s social content
Qualifications:
- Intuitive sense of storytelling and messaging. We are looking to create written pieces, graphics, and social media content that are engaging, fun, and informative to our audience of current and prospective undergraduate students
- Great written communication skills; including writing copy, editing, and a strong ability to proofread
- Experience with graphic design using apps like Canva, Lightroom, and Photoshop preferred but not required
- Social networking experience and social analytics tools knowledge
- Ability to work remotely using personal computer
This position pays $16.50/hour.
Applications are due by February 10, 2025.
To apply, communications [at] honors [dot] umass [dot] edu (submit the following items to Matthew Medeiros, Director of Communications):
- Cover letter
- Résumé
- Portfolio (should include at least three samples of work, either visual or written)