Social Media Specialist

Tempe, AZ (Hybrid)

$27/hr – $32/hrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 22 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end social media content creation, publishing, and community engagement while tracking performance and coordinating with campus and marketing partners.

  • Publish and coordinate content calendars across platforms, use approved tools, and ensure brand consistency.
  • Analyze performance metrics and translate findings into actionable recommendations for optimization.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Create, edit, gather, and repurpose platform-appropriate written, graphic, photo, and short-form video content for channels such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Use approved tools and templates while adapting content to audience and platform needs.
  • Maintain assigned social media profiles and execute approved content calendars and campaigns. Schedule and publish content, complete routine quality checks, coordinate timing and dependencies, and help ensure profiles remain current, accurate, accessible, and aligned with brand standards.
  • Monitor assigned channels and respond to comments, questions, and messages in accordance with established response guidelines. Encourage constructive community interaction and escalate sensitive, high-risk, student-specific, legal, compliance, or reputational matters to the appropriate resource.
  • Track social media key performance indicators; prepare recurring reports and initial analyses; identify performance patterns; and recommend practical content, timing, targeting, or workflow adjustments for review by more experienced team members or management.
  • Apply approved brand voice, tone, visual identity, privacy, accessibility, and content standards across digital touchpoints. Identify inconsistencies or content risks and coordinate corrections within established procedures.
  • Coordinate with marketing colleagues, campus staff, faculty, students, alumni, ambassadors, and outside agencies to gather content and support campaigns. Attend selected campus events and visits to capture and promote timely social content.
  • Maintain working knowledge of social platforms and tools, document repeatable practices, share approved guidance with campus contributors, and recommend improvements to content workflows, reporting, and channel execution.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, public relations, digital media, or a related field and at least two years of relevant professional experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Experience creating and managing content across major social media platforms, including Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
  • Proficiency with social media management, scheduling, analytics, reporting, and multimedia editing tools, such as Sprout Social and CapCut.
  • Ability to interpret social media performance metrics, develop actionable recommendations, and communicate findings through clear reports and presentations.
  • Strong writing, editing, communication, organization, and project-coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
  • Experience supporting social media programs in higher education, healthcare education, or another regulated or multi-location environment, including collaboration with campus contributors, ambassadors, or external creative agencies.
  • Working knowledge of digital accessibility, privacy, copyright, and brand-governance practices applicable to social media.

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental and Vision starting the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment
  • 2 Weeks’ starting Vacation per year. Increased based on years of service with company
  • 12 paid Holidays and 2 Floating Holiday
  • Company Paid Life Insurance at 1x’s your annual salary
  • Leadership development and training for career advancement
  • Tuition assistance and Forgiveness for you and your family up to 100% depending on the program
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Founded in 1992, Unitek Learning is the parent company for five distinguished learning institutions in the areas of healthcare, nursing, and emergency medical services. Unitek College is one of the foremost healthcare and nursing colleges in California and Nevada. Unitek EMT provides comprehensive EMT and EMS training to hundreds of professionals every year. Eagle Gate College and Provo College in Utah and Idaho have a singular focus — to provide students with the knowledge, training, and skills they need to create a rewarding career in the ever-expanding world of healthcare. Our latest addition, Brookline College, offers diploma, Bachelor, and Master level education in Arizona and New Mexico.Through our subsidiary schools, Unitek Learning has helped students, working professionals and organizations achieve their goals for more than 25 years. From first contact to after completion, we help each individual overcome obstacles with support from our industry-experienced instructors and student-focused staff. Unitek offers a real-world education in a wide range of in-demand healthcare career fields. Our training is relevant and dynamic, and continually updated to answer the changing demands of the students and organizations we serve.As a rapidly growing and highly successful company, Unitek Learning is also a great place to pursue a rewarding and challenging career! We offer a competitive salary, generous benefits, unlimited growth potential, and a collegiate work environment.

Founded in 1992
Newport Beach, California, USA
668 employees (24 in marketing)
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Private Equity, 13 years ago

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