Always Be Job Hunting

This posting came to me from a college alumni listserv I belong to. Good luck and good hunting and remember, Always Be Job Hunting.

Position Opening: Reporter/Producer – Statehouse News Bureau

Job Posted: February 8, 2013

Application Deadline: February 22, 2013

Wanted: journalist with a passion for political reporting, public broadcasting and producing compelling work to become the third member of our award-winning Statehouse News Bureau.

As part of our team, you’ll be based in the historic Ohio Statehouse, covering our high-profile governor and an active and sometimes controversial legislature. And you’ll follow state and national politics from the key swing state in every major election for the last decade. You’ll be based in Columbus in central Ohio.

January is job hunting season.

Our Statehouse Reporters cover all three branches of state government, along with elections, education, the economy and other issues of statewide interest. Reporters write and produce long-form features and short spots for Ohio’s public radio stations, along with occasional series, documentaries and investigative reports. They also help produce “The State of Ohio”, the Bureau’s weekly TV talk show, and make regular appearances on programs aired on radio and television statewide.

2. Essential duties and responsibilities:

Under the supervision of the Statehouse Bureau Chief:

Gather information about events through research, interviews, experience and attendance at political, news, sports, cultural, social and other functions.
Investigate breaking news, writes scripts, often under tight deadlines, initiates and develops short-term news reports and in-depth enterprise stories, as well as spots for newscasts.
Present live or recorded commentary via broadcast or other media. Conduct live-air interviews.
Perform creative enterprise: determine a story’s length, emphasis, perspective and format and organize material accordingly. Determine program content and treatment.
Participate in editorial meetings, identify and generate story ideas and/or direct same.
Gather edit and mix audio and video, and voice reports for all platforms.
Organize and maintain journalistic data and files
Establish and maintain effective news sources and community contacts.
Perform Producer duties such as:

• Plan, organize and produce stories and interviews and production elements on multiple platforms. May include pitching story, segment and show ideas and proposals, researching, field producing, production design, and budgeting.
• May determine program content and treatment.
• Direct and/or perform the gathering, editing and mixing of audio and /or video using digital recording and editing equipment.
• May operate on-air and production equipment
• May gather and deliver material for web use.
• May include directing and coaching host/reporter performance.

•  Participate in on-air fundraising as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Some straight-forward talk about today’s pay situation.

This came my way through a college listserv, there are a lot more details on the college site.

HELP WANTED

This position is the primary leader in implementing the Saint Mary’s College brand through its visual identity and will support institutional marketing objectives through developing creative solutions to marketing problems across digital, print and environmental platforms.

Duties include:

Strengthens the College’s market distinction, leadership position, and ultimately its reputation and revenue streams through strategic thought leadership and creative solutions. Assure creative standards are met across the institution.
Directs all aspects of design and production for Saint Mary’s College to achieve strategic marketing objectives. This includes design strategy, conceptualization. Executes and directs others in publication and marketing projects across all platforms, including print and digital, ensuring that all materials communicate a high-quality, creative, and consistent visual representation of the College while helping to achieve its marketing objectives.
Leads the development and implementation of creative strategies and designs for the institution’s web and interactive media presence.
Serves as the primary steward of visual identity for the institution, ensuring consist and effective implementation of the brand and serving as a campus resource to ensure integrated communications across the College. Establish strategic partnerships with Deans and other campus leadership to ensure effected integrated communications across the institution.
Provides leadership for the creative development of the institution’s flagship publication, the Saint Mary’s magazine.
Supervises two senior designers. Inspire and guide the design team to creative excellence as both a mentor and a contributor. Foster teamwork with designers and writers to set an environment conducive to idea exchange. Assist designers with career and skills development.
Understands business context and goals for creative efforts. Interact effectively with all levels of management and staff across the institution.
Leads the production process for creative projects from inception to completion ensuring on-time to delivery.
Collaborates with freelancers and outside agencies to ensure consistency across channels. Collaborate with production vendors to maintain and evolve efficient processes.
Develops and implement media plans that serve the needs of internal partners budgets and marketing objectives.

Experience and Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree and eight or more years of design experience in agency or higher education setting with some supervisory experience.
A solid expertise in print, web, email and interactive design and the production process for each.
Experience managing/leading design teams.
Highly organized, with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines.
Outstanding interpersonal skills with an ability to communicate clearly and concisely, as well as a demonstrated willingness to share ideas with individuals at all levels.
Enjoy demonstrating initiative and creativity, excel at originating ideas, anticipate and implement next steps, generate improvement opportunities and translate new ideas into workable solutions.
Strong problem solving skills, ability to understand and identify key strategic issues, and develop creative design solutions to assignments.
Experience enforcing and propagating visual identity style guidelines.
Thorough familiarity and competence with latest Adobe Creative Suite software, including Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Solid understanding of browser technologies.
Comprehensive awareness and interest in ne