Social Media Specialist

Elko, NV (Unknown)

$61K/yr – $80K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive the campus social media program by shaping strategy, creating and scheduling multimedia content, coordinating an editorial calendar, engaging with audiences, analyzing performance, and collaborating with faculty and campus partners to promote programs and events.

  • Lead strategy and content planning to meet marketing, recruitment, and enrollment goals
  • Coordinate cross-department collaboration to highlight programs and student success stories

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute social media strategies that support marketing, recruitment, and enrollment goals.
  • Create, schedule, and publish engaging written, graphic, photo, and video content across multiple social media platforms.
  • Maintain an editorial content calendar to ensure timely, consistent, and strategic messaging.
  • Monitor social media channels, respond to comments and messages, and foster positive online engagement.
  • Analyze social media performance and provide recommendations to improve reach, engagement, and effectiveness.
  • Partner with faculty, staff, and campus departments to promote academic programs, student success stories, and college events.
  • Attend events throughout GBC's service area to capture photos, videos, and behind-the-scenes content.
  • Supervise and mentor student employees assisting with social media and digital content creation.
  • Organize and maintain digital media assets while staying current with emerging social media trends, platforms, and best practices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree and two years of relevant professional experience; OR
  • High school diploma or equivalent and six years of relevant professional experience; OR
  • An equivalent combination of education and experience totaling six years.

Preferred

  • Experience managing social media accounts for an organization, business, or educational institution.
  • Proficiency with major social media platforms and social media management and analytics tools.
  • Experience using applications such as Meta Business Suite, Hootsuite, Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar creative software.
  • Photography, videography, and video editing experience.
  • Experience in higher education, marketing, communications, public relations, or a related field.
  • Strong writing, storytelling, and interpersonal communication skills with exceptional attention to detail.

Benefits

  • Health insurance options including medical, dental and vision
  • 12 paid holidays
  • Life insurance, long-term disability
  • Generous annual and sick leave with 24 annual leave days, a beginning balance of 30 sick leave days.
  • ComPsych supports employees through life's difficult moments.
  • No state income tax!
  • Free Parking
  • Grants-in-aid for Faculty Employees
  • Great Basin College is proud to provide a reduced-rate tuition benefit to faculty and qualified dependents. Faculty can take up to six credits per semester at a reduced rate. Dependents of faculty have unlimited credits, but in order to be eligible children must be unmarried and under the age of 24 and must receive at least 50% of their financial support from the employee and/or employee’s spouse or domestic partner.
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Great Basin College

Great Basin College covers 86,500 square miles, two time zones, and ten of Nevada’s largest counties. We border Oregon, Arizona, Idaho, Utah, and California. The main campus in Elko is a comprehensive residential college. Centers are located in Battle Mountain, Ely, Pahrump, and Winnemucca. There are satellite facilities in over a dozen communities across northern Nevada and our Internet campus continues to grow rapidly. We are very committed to working with the communities in all of our locations to meet their educational needs.

Founded in 1967
Elko, Nevada, USA
369 employees (12 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
19.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$15
Traffic Source Mix
Search
53.2%
Direct
21%
Referral
12.2%
Social
2.3%
Paid
5.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~369

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
6 (2% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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