Seasonal Social Media Assistant

Purchase, NY (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableIntern/New Grad5+ years expPart time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the planning and orchestration of campus digital storytelling across platforms, coordinating with campus units and stakeholders to ensure brand-aligned, voice-consistent content while guiding paid digital initiatives to maximize ROI.

  • Content & Platform Planning: Lead calendar development for June–August and align with campus partners.
  • Storytelling & Creative Direction: Shape storytelling across social and digital campaigns with designers and communications staff.
  • Integrated Marketing & Paid Campaigns: Advise on integrated marketing initiatives and data-informed paid strategies, with department leadership final approvals.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop a content calendar for each platform for the months of June, July and August, coordinating with appropriate units across campus.
  • Provide creative direction for storytelling across social and digital campaigns.
  • Guide the development of content in collaboration with communications staff, designers, and stakeholders.
  • Review library of content created by students for deployment during the summer months.
  • Ensure digital initiatives align with established brand standards, messaging frameworks, and institutional values.
  • Ensure consistency in voice, tone, visual identity, and messaging across platforms.
  • Collaborate with editorial, graphic design, and web colleagues on integrated marketing initiatives.
  • Provide strategic guidance for paid digital advertising initiatives in collaboration with department leadership and external partners. Offer data-driven recommendations to improve campaign effectiveness and return on investment, with budget authority and final approvals retained by department leadership.

Requirements

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, digital media, journalism, or related field.
  • Experience: Minimum of five years of progressively responsible professional experience in digital marketing, media strategy, social media strategy, or digital communications.
  • Demonstrated experience developing and implementing data-informed digital and social media strategies.
  • Excellent organizational and project management skills.
  • Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
  • Familiarity with paid digital advertising platforms and optimization strategies.
  • Knowledge of accessibility standards, digital compliance, and inclusive content practices.
  • Ability to function effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Preferred

  • Experience working within a higher education environment, enrollment marketing context, or other mission-driven organization (strongly preferred).
  • Experience collaborating across departments and serving as a strategic advisor to internal stakeholders.
  • Familiarity with digital governance structures, brand standards, and approval workflows in a complex organizational environment.

Benefits

  • Manhattanville University also offers a highly competitive and comprehensive benefits package, including tuition remission. For more information regarding benefits, please visit our benefits page: Manhattanville Benefits
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Manhattanville University

Manhattanville University (www.mville.edu) is an independent, co-educational liberal arts institution whose mission is to prepare students, through rigorous academic and co-curricular programs, for ethically and socially responsible service and leadership within a global community. Located just 30 miles from New York City, Manhattanville serves 1,500 undergraduate students and 1,000 graduate students from 66 countries and 33 states. Founded in 1841, the University offers more than 50 undergraduate areas of study in the arts and sciences and offers graduate programs in Education, Business, Writing, Liberal Studies, and Continuing Education.

Purchase, New York, USA
924 employees (34 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
44.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$75
Traffic Source Mix
Search
50.7%
Direct
42.6%
Referral
5.9%
Social
0.4%
Paid
0.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~924

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
34 (4% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
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