National boutique public relations communications firm Sommer Communications group is looking for a self-starting PR administrative coordinator. In this role, you will work directly with the CEO and across the entire team to ensure smooth running of the division in daily tasks and as it relates to all current accounts.

Duties:

The PR Coordinator will work closely across the team on a variety of projects, included, but not limited to the following:

- Maintenance and creation of media lists
- Monitoring google alerts and deciphering relevant information to enhance media list
- Monitor social media tracking software
- Online media research as needed
- Managing the agency appointment calendar
- Coordinating administrative client communications
- Attending client calls as needed for note taking and following up on action items
- Assist with client appreciation efforts during holiday or special occasions
- General weekly admin to support the team

Position details

- Mostly virtual - 10 hours a week to start, opportunity for growth
- Must be NYC based or accessible to NYC
- Weekly on-site visits to NYC office (28th St & Madison Ave)

Qualifications:
- The ideal candidate will have a focused background/understanding of public relations, communications or journalism
- Strong writing, research and organizational skills,
- Knowledge of media tracking and being able to decipher media relevant to current clients
- Flexible schedule, self starter and ability to work in a fast paced environment
- Experience working in a startup environment.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple projects.
- Degree in communications or related areas preferred.

We are seeking a super intelligent person (or more than one) to help us produce two of our shows for PBS Digital Studios: Game/Show and Space Time. They discuss the smart side of video games and astrophysics, respectively, so the right person has a love of video games and a desire to wrap their head around some cool space science.

It's not required to be an astrophysicist! Leave that part to the PhD writer/host. But you must be able to review scripts, contribute to the clarity of the arguments, work with the host during shoots, and help guide the editing process.

Game/Show requires someone who is already invested in video game culture, who can help with everything above, and be a great collaborator in thinking of new ideas for episodes.

Both shows need someone who is very interested in YouTube culture and internet video in general, and who has a solid understanding of web video production.

We have a very creative and intellectual culture at Kornhaber Brown. Working with us is a blast, so if your head is full of great ideas and you want to truly participate in culture, get in touch!

CAREER OPPORTUNITY
Communications Assistant [COMM-26]
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
Communications Department, NY

The Communications Department of the National Office in New York City is seeking a full-time Communications Assistant.

OVERVIEW

Under the supervision of the Deputy Director of Communications, the Communications Assistant is responsible for performing administrative duties for the Communications Department.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide administrative support to the department including the following:
Schedule meetings and conference calls, prepare relevant materials and handle meeting logistics.
Coordinate travel arrangements.
Assist with permission requests and work with legal department support staff to finalize the requests.
Maintain professional and user-friendly electronic and paper office filing systems.
Maintain and update departmental organizational chart and assist with updating the Communications section of the intranet.
Work with Affiliate Support and Advocacy (ASA) department on publications promotions, distribution of materials for conferences and other events. Handle mass mailings.
Collaborate as necessary with digital team, strategists, and other communications staff.
Work with IT, Human Resources, and Operations on set-up for new hires and consultants.
Pick up, sort and distribute mail, draft correspondence and other documents.
Conduct Internet and photo research.
Perform other duties as assigned.
EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s Degree or 1-2 years of work experience preferred.
Must be a self-motivated, take initiative and possess excellent organizational and time- management skills.
Must possess the ability to maintain a high level of accuracy and attention to detail within a fast-paced environment.
Strong communication skills including excellent telephone manner; strong interpersonal skills.
Experience with scheduling meetings and appointments.
Excellent writing and proofreading skills.
Ability to work independently as well as within in a team while maintaining a high level of efficiency and professionalism.
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (e.g. Outlook, Word, Excel), Convio and have experience with Internet research.
Demonstrated commitment to the mission of the ACLU.
COMPENSATION

Salary for this position $45,986. Excellent benefits package provided.

A professional Administrative Assistant who balances working in a true team environment with strong working relationships and business professionalism is the ideal candidate for this position. If you are motivated by contributing to the greater good, sustained by a personal goal of excellence and hold yourself to the highest standards of productivity and teamwork, you have attributes that would fit well in our unique environment.

This position is with Spectrum News, an online resource for news on autism research. We offer a highly professional environment coupled with an employee-friendly and family-oriented work atmosphere.

This position will support the Spectrum Web Team. The Administrative Assistant will support the Editor-in-Chief ofSpectrum as well as spend a portion of their time supporting a team of 7–8 members with a variety of administrative tasks.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES
General administrative support
Scheduling appointments and meetings
Tracking projects
Documenting minutes
Managing contracts and invoices
Making and coordinating travel arrangements
Tracking and managing expenses
Creating professional and organized documents utilizing Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Corresponding with team members and other direct contacts
Liaising with scientists and other significant professionals

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education
Bachelor’s degree preferred

Experience
At least five years in a similar role
Experience working in the fields of medicine or science helpful, but not required
Experience with content management systems and HTML strongly preferred

Related Skills & Other Requirements
Strong computer skills, particularly with email, word processing and spreadsheets
Familiarity with Google Docs and DropBox
Sound judgment and discretion
Excellent interpersonal skills
Relaxed and friendly personality
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Must be independent, proactive and able to anticipate needs based on commitments, calendar and workload
Strong administrative, coordination and organization skills with extreme attention to detail
Punctual and reliable

The Simons Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V.

The Office of School Support and Supervision (OSSS) is part of the NYCDOE Division of the Senior Deputy Chancellor and School Support. OSSS supports all NYCDOE field staff (superintendents and Borough Field Support Center (BFSC) staff) in order to support instruction and student achievement, engage families, and help implement citywide initiatives to more than 1,600 New York City public schools.

As a member of the OSSS School Workflow Management (SWM) team, the communications analyst will play a critical role in streamlining Central asks of superintendent teams, BFSC teams, and principals. The School Workflow Management team carries out this work by ensuring that principals and field staff receive high-quality, actionable, and reliable information via the Chancellor’s publications: Principals’ Weekly and Field Support for Schools.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Copy Editing (50% time)
 Edit communications in both Field Support for Schools and Principals’ Weekly, the Chancellor’s weekly publications that communicate NYCDOE policies and other information to all field staff and principals.
 Work with NYCDOE Central office teams to develop communications plans in order to deliver timely, clear, and concise communications to superintendents, Borough Field Support Center staff, and schools through the weekly publications.
 Provide copy editing support to Central office staff on additional publications to schools, including guidance and policy documents.

Quantitative Analysis (30% time)
 Conduct research on how subscribers and submitters use the weekly publications and use responses to inform decisions.
 Collect, and analyze data regarding the volume, content, submitters, and recurrences of policy announcements.
 Write reports based on analytical results to inform the team’s publication process.

Online Publishing (20% time)
 Provide technical support for the publications, including posting and updating hyperlinks, prioritizing announcements, managing the Table of Contents in the weekly communications, and other related tasks.
 Help the team develop and implement an improved online publishing system for the weekly communications.

Qualifications:
 Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a strong interest in public education, communications, public policy, political science, operations, or a related field.
 Proficiency in online publishing, including experience with content management systems, website design and maintenance, and internet security is preferred.
 Microsoft Office platforms, particularly Word and Excel.
 Proficiency in quantitative analysis, including working knowledge of data analysis, table management and graph development in Excel.

Minds Matter of NYC, a not-for-profit organization that brings high-achieving and motivated high school students from low-income families together with dedicated volunteers to achieve academic excellence and expand educational horizons, is recruiting new Writing & Critical Thinking (“W&CT”) Advisors and Test Prep Instructors for the 2015-2016 school year.

This is an excellent opportunity for journalism students to use their writing and communications skills to give back to deserving local high school students.

W&CT Advisors
- Writing & Critical Thinking Advisors help students develop critical thinking and writing skills, including structuring arguments and logical reasoning.

Test Prep Instructors
- Test Prep Instructors are trained to guide students through a structured weekly curriculum that helps students improve PSAT, SAT, and ACT scores.

Here are some links to learn more about the program and to apply:
Learn More: www.mindsmatternyc.org
Application: www.mindsmatternyc.org/volunteers/

The Content Editor will assist in managing multi-channel content programs, creating content plans and working with strategy, account, design, video, print and technical team members to execute and deliver content. The ideal candidate will have experience writing and editing as well as be comfortable pitching in on digital content strategies and working on everything from the initial brainstorming to trafficking content to editing. In this role, the editor will manage freelancers, assign and edit content, keep the content moving, brainstorm and pitch ideas and generally stay flexible on a group of wide-ranging financial content projects.

Minimum qualifications/requirements include:
• 3-5 years editorial experience in a news organization, agency or client-side business (Bonus points for business/financial content knowledge)
• Strong digital content experience
• Outstanding editorial skills; the ideal candidate will have experience editing for content, scope, flow, style and adherence to quality standards
• Ability to manage a large amount of copy for several publications
• Strategic mindset
• Experience managing freelancers

The Portfolio Marketing Manager will oversee marketing content initiatives, both internal and external, across multiple platforms and formats to drive sales, engagement, retention, leads and customer action. This individual should understand content development, brand consistency, segmentation and localization, analytics and meaningful measurement of social and content marketing tactics. The candidate will collaborate with public relations, communications, product marketing, and digital marketers to ensure consistent messaging and a flow of valuable materials consistent with our new work of marketing. Ultimately, the Portfolio Marketing Content Specialist thinks and acts like a publisher/journalist, leading the development of content initiatives with excellence, and linking them with craftsmanship to messaging and business objectives. This includes:

Ensuring all content is on-brand, consistent in terms of style, quality and tone of voice, and optimized for search and user experience for all channels of content including online, social media, email, point of purchase, mobile, video, print and in-person. This is to be done for each buyer persona within the enterprise.

Mapping out a content strategy and communicating it that supports and extends marketing initiatives, both short- and long-term, determining which methods work best and why. Agile focus and continuous evolvement of strategy based on metric feedback is key.

The development of a functional content calendar throughout the enterprise verticals, and defining the owners in each vertical to particular persona groups.

Collaborating with freelance writers, editors, content strategists; be an arbiter of best practices in grammar, messaging, writing, and style.

Integration of content activities within traditional marketing campaigns.

Conducting ongoing usability tests to gauge content effectiveness. Gathering data and handle analytics (or supervise those who do) and make recommendations based on those results. Working with owners of particular content to revise and measure particular content and marketing goals.

Developing standards, systems and best practices (both human and technological) for content creation, distribution, maintenance, content retrieval and content repurposing, including the real-time implementation of content strategies.

Establishing work flow for requesting, creating, editing, publishing, and retiring content.

Work with technical team to implement appropriate Content Management System (CMS).

Conducting periodic competitive audits.

Supervising the maintenance of content inventories and matrices.

Ensuring consistent global experience and implement appropriate localization/translation strategies. Required

Bachelor's Degree
Basic knowledge in Content marketing
Basic knowledge in Digital marketing
Readiness to travel 10% travel annually
English: Fluent

Preferred

Master's Degree
At least 1 year experience in Content marketing
At least 1 year experience in Digital marketing

IBM is seeking the next generation of creative individuals with a hunger for innovation and a knack for marketing to join our Performance Marketing team.

As the newest IBM Marketing group, we think big, start small, and scale fast – and work beside some of the best agile development teams to bring our ideas to life. Performance Marketing is leading the transformation to build a smarter business; it’s where smart analytics, innovative strategies, and intuitive design principles are applied to create the next generation of tools and platforms for IBM marketers. From the get-go, you will have the opportunity to impact marketing strategy at a global level and work with some of the brightest data scientists, social media ninjas, and world-class designers in the industry.

We are looking for individuals who:
• Have a passion for solving complex problems applying design thinking, user centric principles, technology, and data.
• Are able to help others craft an understanding of a market, its audiences, and key messages that drive engagement.
• Think digitally – understand the principles of content life cycle management, from creation, production, analytics and optimization

The Perks
• Our office digs are located at 51 Astor Place, in the heart of the Silicon Alley, New York City
• Not ready to ditch your notebook? Learn key marketing and analytical skills in our new employee onboarding program
• We care about results; how you get work done is up to you. Our hours are often flexible because the work is constantly changing
• No cube life for us! Our marketing labs are designed for collaboration—desks, couches, whiteboard walls and even a ping pong table
• Get involved in our community service, social events, and professional development workshops. It’s like you never left campus
• 380,000 employees,170 countries, unlimited career opportunities with our network
• Big name company with small, agile teams—get one-on-one mentoring and showcase your work
• Competitive salary, benefits, and vacation time; only the best for our employees Required

High School Diploma/GED
Basic knowledge in digital marketing
Basic knowledge in social media and building communities
Readiness to travel 10% travel annually
English: Fluent

Preferred

Bachelor's Degree
Basic knowledge in problem solving and analytical skills
Basic knowledge in developing strategic marketing campaigns
Basic knowledge in industry standard design processes, methods, and tools
Basic knowledge in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Basic knowledge in web and mobile development and related skills, documentation, business tools and methodologies, troubleshooting and problem resolution, and customer facing experience
At least 6 months experience in working in a collaborative and driven environment (this can include classroom and/or internship setting)
At least 6 months experience in visual, interactive, User experience (UX) or industrial design
At least 6 months experience in working within a cross-functional team and handling multiple projects with tight deadlines

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Trained in multi-media communications, passionate about science and technology, skilled in explaining highly technical research topics in engaging plain language. If this sounds like you, we have a position that could be a great fit for your talents.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is looking for an entry level science communicator with a full complement of skills: writing, presentations, photography, and video. This position is located in the Public Affairs Office at NIST’s headquarters in Gaithersburg, Maryland near Washington, DC. If you have a love for science and technology and would like to join one of the world’s leading science and research organizations, please review the job description.

Job duties include leading and coordinating tours of laboratories and research facilities, answering or redirecting general inquiries from the public, writing articles and announcements for NIST employees and staff, capturing photos and videos of NIST activities, and assisting in managing digital assets like photographs and website content.

The position requires excellent written, oral, and visual communications skills. Candidates must have a strong interest in science and science-communications. Also required are excellent interpersonal skills to establish positive relationships with NIST technical staff members and other NIST stakeholders. Candidates must also have creative and technical skills in creating and managing photographs and other digital assets.

To learn more about the broad array of science and research programs at NIST, please visit www.nist.gov

U.S. citizenship is required.
Department of Commerce is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Salary Range: $43,057 - $75,395
Location: Gaithersburg, MD
Applications Due By (Closing Date): October 13, 2015
Vacancy Announcement Number: NISTOD-2015-0024
Job Link: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/416498500