Digital Media Director

Digital Media Director

Description

KPCW seeks a creative, ambitious, and talented Social and Digital Media Specialist. 

Key responsibilities and duties

• Create, curate, source, prepare and edit content and materials for publishing and sharing across all KPCW social and digital media channels.
• Collaborate with KPCW’s team of news reporters, content producers and other station staff to identify opportunities for developing digital content elements that will enhance the quality of our digital stories, programs, strategic endeavors and other digital productions.
• Assist with the distribution of KPCW’s daily email newsletter, The Local, and other special email newsletters, as necessary.
• Identify opportunities for connecting with our community and our audience via digital channels and work with the team on making those connections.
• Monitor social media to identify trends, activity and interest that could become editorial and programming opportunities, and inform the team of those opportunities.
• Maintain awareness of best practices in social media and work with the strategic team to inform KPCW’s activities within those spaces.
   

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Three years professional social and digital content experience required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Photo and graphic editing and creation using Adobe Photoshop or similar tools
• Light coding experience (HTML, CSS, JS, PHP)
• Two years experience in a professional journalism environment.
   

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using content management systems such as Grove, WordPress, or similar
• Familiarity with iContact, Mailchimp or similar email newsletter publication tool
• Digital audio editing using Adobe Audition, ProTools or equivalent
• Graphics and/or visual design experience

Interested applicants must send a cover letter and resume to jobs@kpcw.org.  Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.