Visual Media & Design Manager

TITLE: Visual Media & Design Manager

DEPARTMENT: Communications & Marketing

Classification (FLSA): Nonexempt, Hourly

REPORTS TO: Vice President for Communications & Marketing

GENERAL DESCRIPTION: The Visual Media & Design Manager is responsible for the College’s visual storytelling: photography, management of the College’s photographers, graphic design and desktop publishing, and stewardship of the College’s library of digital assets, including its Flickr albums. The Visual Media & Design Manager ensures that every image and designed piece reflects the beauty of Christendom’s campus and community and the standards of the College’s brand.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Recruit, train, schedule, and manage a team of student photographers.

CHIEF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Photograph College events, campus life, academics, and brand-building initiatives for use in publications, the website, social media, and advertising.
• Manage the College’s student photographers, including assignments, shot lists, scheduling, and quality review.
• Serve as the office’s lead graphic designer, designing publications, advertisements, flyers, posters, brochures, signage, and digital graphics in keeping with the College’s brand guidelines.
• Design layouts for Instaurare, Principles, and other College publications under the art direction of the Vice President for Communications & Marketing, in collaboration with the Publications & Projects Manager.
• Manage the College’s digital asset library: organize, keyword, archive, and maintain photo, video, and design assets so they can be easily found and reused across the office.
• Curate and maintain the College’s Flickr albums and other public photo galleries.
• Create digital and social media ad creative for College campaigns.
• Serve as the office’s quality check for visual work: review designs and images produced by colleagues, students, or vendors for quality and brand consistency.
• Prepare and optimize images and graphics for the website, social media, and email newsletters in support of the Director of Communications and the Publications & Projects Manager, and design graphics for College emails on request.
• Collaborate with the Multimedia Producer to coordinate photo and video coverage of College events.
• Other tasks as assigned by the Vice President for Communications & Marketing.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time for the needs of the College, but a discussion between the employee and supervisor will take place prior to the change.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• B.A. required (from Christendom College preferred)
• A trained eye: able to judge what makes a design or photograph effective, critique work constructively, and direct others to improve it
• A portfolio of photography and design work, and the ability to explain the choices behind it
• Working proficiency in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Lightroom
• Experience with professional camera and lighting equipment
• Experience organizing large photo libraries; familiarity with digital asset management tools and Flickr
• Excellent communication skills, written and oral
• An eye for design, photographic composition, and a high attention to detail
• Ability to lead and teach student photographers
• Have the desire to work for a Catholic Apostolate
• Acute sense of urgency
• Goal-oriented, with excellent organizational skills
• Cooperative ability and attitude
• Ability to be innovative and to “think outside the box”
• Determination to overcome all hurdles to achieve planned results
• Friendly, cheerful, flexible, high-energy, and professional disposition

PHYSICAL / MENTAL / EMOTIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be able to lift 15 pounds.
• Must be able to walk for up to four hours at a time.
• Must be able to work some evenings and weekends to cover College events.

We offer medical, dental, vision, accident, long-term disability, short-term disability, generous PTO, and a 403(b) with match as part of our benefits package.