Description
The City of Norfolk is seeking a Multimedia Communications Specialist for The Slover. This position assists the Manager of Visitor Marketing through a variety of media formats, including but not limited to print, web, social media, photography, and video to promote The Slover and its public offerings. Assists with promoting programs and events. Performs special projects. Performs a variety of administrative, financial, and budgetary.
The Slover is a premier destination located in downtown Norfolk that contains a branch of the Norfolk Public Library system, the Sargeant Memorial Collection Archives, the Roy E. Hendrix Business center, Creative Studios, Venue Rentals, and a Café. The Slover encompasses three centuries of architecture which spans 138,000 square feet across seven floors. The City of Norfolk is a permanent Carnival cruise hub welcoming 150,000 guests a year. At just two blocks from the hub, The Slover is a destination for visitation, information, and activities for tourists in addition to our robust visitation from residents.
Essential Functions
Essential functions include but are not limited to:
- Creates original content (video, photography, social media, website, etc.) which promotes and informs city services. Writes and create visuals that are appropriate for various city-owned platforms, including social media, and websites.
- Liaison to various city departments, supports special events, works collaboratively with the Communications team.
- Promote programs and agendas by responding to inquiries from media, writing occasional press releases, presentations, and public service announcements, updating the website, and submitting daily program information.
Departmental Hiring Salary Range: $54,190.94-$58,050.69
Education/Experience
Work requires broad knowledge in a general professional or technical field. Knowledge is normally acquired through four years of college resulting in a Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
1 year experience in communications or related field
Preferred Education/Experience
- Advanced experience with media monitoring practices such as capturing initial impressions of a campaign across multiple media platforms, as well as media analytics such as gathering and analyzing data over time for the purpose of evaluating the effectiveness of communication strategies and informing future decision making.
- Advanced experience with digital content management practices such as creating and maintaining tailored content on an organization's website, social media, and other digital platforms for the purpose of informing, educating, and empowering internal and external stakeholders.
- Basic experience with Adobe Creative Cloud software applications such as InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator
- Ability to read correspondence, publications, reports, legal documents, and promotional materials.
- Prioritizing work to meet deadlines. Prepare neat and thorough documents and monthly reports.
Additional Information & Requirements
Work Hours: This position is 40 hours per week. Workdays and hours will vary depending on organizational needs. The facility will be open Monday-Sunday 9 a.m.-7 p.m. This position will require flexibility to work weekend and evening schedules.
- Regular full-time and permanent part-time employees may receive paid holidays, vacation and sick leave, employer paid pension plan, basic life insurance, voluntary participation in medical and dental, Section 457 deferred compensation, long-term disability, optional life insurance for self, spouse and children, medical and dependent care reimbursement plans, access to membership in credit union and employer provided parking.
- Special project/grant employees are generally eligible for the same benefits of regular full-time employees; however, retirement, life insurance and participation in health plans vary depending upon funding and authorization.
- Temporary/seasonal and part-time employees are generally only eligible for employer provided parking and access to membership in credit union.
- Retirement
If you are hired October 5, 2010, or after to a position with City of Norfolk Retirement System benefits, you will be required to contribute five percent (5%) of your salary toward your retirement benefit. This will be a pre-tax payroll deduction.
If you are hired January 1, 2022, or after to a position with Virginia Retirement System (VRS) benefits, you will be required to contribute five percent (5%) of your salary toward your retirement benefit. This will be a pre-tax payroll deduction.
- The Tuition Assistance Program is established to encourage employees toward continued self-development and education. Permanent full-time and permanent part-time classified, unclassified permanent, full-time special projects, and constitutional employees who have completed six months continuous service will be eligible to apply. The applicant’s school of enrollment must be an accredited institution.
Note
The benefits described above are broad generalizations. The specific benefits that an employee may be eligible for are governed by City regulations, as applicable to job type.
Non-City
Positions listed with a job type designation of "Non-City" are not subject to the benefits descriptions above. Refer to the content of the job posting for information regarding these positions.
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The following Supplemental Questions are specific to the position for which you have applied to assist the hiring manager in screening applications for specific experience being sought. Please be specific in answering these questions as they will be used to evaluate which applications will be given further consideration in the process. Do not answer "see resume" or "see application" as these are not valid answers. Please note that if you are invited to be interviewed by the department, your responses to the following questions may be subject to verification.
- I understand and will answer the following supplemental questions completely and thoroughly.
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Are you a current or previous City of Norfolk employee?
- Yes - I am a current City of Norfolk Employee
- Yes - I am a previous City of Norfolk Employee
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Please provide an explanation of any periods of unemployment that are 30 days or longer. Indicate N/A if you have not experienced any periods of unemployment.
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Please select the highest level of education you have completed.
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How many years of experience do you have with digital content management practices such as creating and maintaining tailored content on an organization's website, social media, and other digital platforms?
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How many years of experience do you have with media monitoring practices such as capturing initial impressions of a campaign across multiple media platforms?
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How many years of experience do you have with Adobe Creative Cloud software applications such as InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator?
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How many years of experience do you have working in a creative field?
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How many years of experience do you have working with and/or designing social media marketing campaigns?
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How many years of experience in communications or related field?
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Please select all Microsoft products you are proficient in using:
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
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This position requires the flexibility to work evening and weekend hours as needed. Are you willing and able to accept this scheduling requirement?
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Please indicate your veteran status. (A copy of your long form DD-214 may be required)
- I am not a Veteran
- I am a Veteran
- I am a Disabled Veteran
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