Part-Time Program Assistant Position at CMDS
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR THIS POSITION
Starting date: November 03, 2014
Application deadline: Review of applications will begin October 22, 2014 and will continue until the position is filled
Full Or Part Time: Part time (20 hrs/week)
Description:
The Program Assistant will coordinate the research dissemination strategy for the Center for Media, Data and Society at CEU, primarily through the management of the Center’s social media presence, website, and other forms of digital content production.
The Program Assistant will be responsible for telling the story of the Center`s research work over a variety of digital formats. Such digital storytelling requires managing Center communications and generating fresh content that allows us to disseminate the research work done by our faculty and staff. We have suite of digital platforms for publishing content and an international audience that we need to consistently reach. Good candidates for this position should be able to demonstrate their skills in content production and existing familiarity with publishing platforms. The Program Assistant will draft short news releases, proofread and format working papers, help with data visualizations, and design presentations. The program assistant will live tweet Center events, generate news items for our website, organize and maintain our website content, and think creatively about how to visualize data and disseminate the research of our faculty and staff. Such work will occasionally involve copyediting, simple graphics design, or document layout.
The Program Assistant should be able to contribute to the strategic dissemination plan for the Center, and advise on how dissemination resources of funds and staff time should be spent. This person has overall responsibility for implementing the dissemination strategy for all the research output of the Center. Our goal is to move from simply publishing research findings to actively engaging, over social media, with our funders, research collaborators, journalists and the interested public. So along with leading the Center`s daily engagement over social media, this job involves working with Center faculty and staff to raise our collective presence online.
Please see the full advertisement at the CEU Human Resources website.
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Informal enquiries may be addressed to Eva Bognar at bognare@ceu.hu