The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) is the focal point for advanced teaching and research at CUNY, the nation’s largest urban public university. With over 35 doctoral and master’s programs of the highest caliber, the Graduate Center fosters pioneering research and scholarship in the arts and sciences and prepares students for careers in universities and the private, nonprofit, and government sectors. The Graduate Center’s commitment to research and scholarship for the public good is exemplified by its more than 30 centers, institutes, and initiatives, including its Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), a 200,000 square-foot facility in upper Manhattan, designed to promote collaboration among scientists in five areas of global research and innovation: nanoscience, photonics, structural biology, neuroscience, and environmental sciences.
The Graduate Center (GC) benefits from highly ambitious and diverse students and alumni-who in turn teach hundreds of thousands of undergraduates every year. Through its public programs, the Graduate Center enhances New York City’s intellectual and cultural life.
The Office of Public Programs offers world class hybrid events to share the ideas and research of CUNY faculty, students, and outside guests on a wide range of timely topics. Audiences attend the events in person at our NYC campus and stream in from around the world. Recent topics have included the future of democracy, climate change, police reform and the rise of the labor movement. Recent speakers have included Angela Davis, Christopher Nolan, Jamelle Bouie, Paul Krugman, Noble Prize-winning scientists and other leaders in their fields.
The College Assistant will create compelling social and multimedia content before and after each event that will aid in expanding the audience for the Graduate Center’s public events. The Office of Public Programs aims to expand the Graduate Center’s social media presence by creating short social media videos featuring content from the events. A successful candidate will have experience in social media marketing and the ability to translate intellectual and topical discussions to a social audience. This position will work closely with the Social Media Coordinator to create videos and other content to promote events.
This position is for 20 hours per week and requires the incumbent to work in-person.
Duties include but are not limited to:
* Assists with devising and executing strategies to promote and expand audience for public events on social media platforms including TikTok, Instagram and YouTube shorts using video and photographic content.
* Creates short social videos for TikTok, Instagram and YouTube shorts.
* Attends events, which take place on weekday evenings.
* Creates pre-event content-driven social media posts.
* Creates approximately 2-4 posts per event per platform.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with creating social media for an organization, educational institution, or business.
- Experience using editing and post creation tools within social platforms.
- Ability to write thoughtfully and creatively about intellectual content.
- Ability to write clean copy.
- Demonstrated experience in video editing and creating social graphics.
- Proven skills in making social content that gets seen by a wider audience.
- Ability to meet ongoing deadlines and stay on top of posting schedule.
- Ability to communicate about challenges with projects.
