Digital Content Creator

East Peoria, IL (On-site)

$50K/yr – $57K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own social storytelling with a student-first lens across ICCs channels, turning authentic student voices into recruitment, enrollment, and retention momentum.

  • Own social channels, student storytelling, and ambassador programs to drive engagement and inquiry.
  • Collaborate across Marketing, Admissions and campus partners to align digital content with the student journey and OneICC messaging.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manage ICC’s primary social media channels, ensuring content reflects the College’s brand voice, institutional priorities, student experience, and audience needs.
  • Develop and publish student-centered digital content that supports ICC’s recruitment, enrollment, retention, brand, and community engagement goals.
  • Measure and analyze results of social media in real-time and make recommendations to optimize performance of marketing campaigns.
  • Elevate authentic student voice throughout the student journey by identifying, capturing, and sharing stories from prospective students, current students, alumni, and other key audiences.
  • Build an ICC student social ambassador program to expand student-generated content, peer-to-peer storytelling, and authentic engagement.
  • Create and coordinate digital storytelling across platforms, including social media, web-connected content, digital marketing, photography, short-form video, and other emerging channels.
  • Collaborate with Marketing, Communications and Recruitment, Web Services, Admissions, academic programs, and other campus partners to align digital content with campaign priorities, student journey mapping, and OneICC messaging.
  • Use social media insights, engagement metrics, campaign performance data, and audience feedback to evaluate content effectiveness and recommend improvements.
  • Respond to social media engagement in a professional, timely, student-centered, and brand-aligned manner, escalating issues as appropriate.
  • Support recruitment marketing and institutional campaigns by creating digital content that drives awareness, engagement, inquiry generation, student action, and brand connection.

Requirements

  • - Associate degree in marketing, communications, public relations, journalism, digital media, or a related field.
  • - Two years of experience in social media, digital marketing, digital content, communications, or related work.
  • - Demonstrated ability to create engaging, audience-centered digital content for social media and other digital platforms.
  • - Advanced knowledge of social media platforms and experience with social media business/advertising managers.
  • - Strong copywriting, editing, visual storytelling, and content development skills.
  • - Experience using social media management, analytics, or publishing tools, including Hootsuite and SproutSocial.
  • - Ability to use data, engagement metrics, and audience insights to improve content performance.
  • - Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to work collaboratively with students, colleagues, campus partners, and community members.
  • - Ability to communicate with diverse audiences in a way that is clear, inclusive, accessible, and aligned with brand standards and social media best practices.
  • - Experienced brand storyteller with a passion for developing innovative, compelling, content across photography, copy and video; able to adapt creatively per channel.
  • - Proven ability to communicate with diverse audiences, particularly as it relates to crafting digital content.
  • - Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to establish and maintain cooperative and professional working relationships with others.

Preferred

  • Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, advertising, marketing, digital media, public relations, or a related field; or five to seven years of related experience.
  • Experience in higher education, community college marketing, student engagement, recruitment marketing, or institutional communications.
  • Experience with photography, video capture, editing, and production for digital platforms.
  • Experience supporting recruitment marketing, lead generation, digital campaigns, web content, SEO, or analytics.
  • Demonstrated passion for working with students and elevating authentic student stories.

Benefits

  • paid time off;
  • 11 paid holidays; 2 floating holidays
  • medical, dental, vision, life and long-term disability insurance;
  • tuition waivers for employee, spouse and dependent children;
  • on-site childcare center;
  • 403(b) retirement plans; and
  • State University Retirement System pension plan.
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Illinois Central College

Illinois Central College (ICC) is a community college located in the greater Peoria area. The college opened its doors 1967 to more than 2,000 students. Today the college annually serves more than 13,000 students and offers more than 1,500 classes per semester. As an open access college, ICC welcomes any student who is willing to learn.ICC's mission is: Illinois Central College cultivates student learning and enriches the community by offering an exceptional educational experience rooted in accessibility, belonging,ICC offers 55 programs of study leading to an Associate in Arts or Science degree; 52 programs of study leading to an Associate Degree in Applied Science; and 61 programs leading to occupational certificates. ICC serves 10 central Illinois counties, with most students residing in Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford counties. The community college district (514) covers 2,322 square miles.Illinois Central College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of College and Schools. It is the policy of this college that no person, on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, or veteran's status shall be discriminated against in employment, in educational programs and activities, or in admissions.For more information about ICC, contact info@icc.edu or call (309) 694-5-ICC.

Founded in 1967
East Peoria, Illinois, USA
1.1K employees (17 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
148.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$419
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42.2%
Direct
53.7%
Referral
3.6%
Social
0.3%
Paid
0.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.1K

Funding

Total Funding
$4.9M
Last Raise
$4.9M
Grant, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2025
    Grant • $4.9M

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