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Multimedia Communications Specialist, Lead

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Georgia State University
Location
Atlanta, GA

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DescriptionPutting technology to work at Georgia State University. Are you passionate about technology, your clients’ success, and looking to make a difference? Ranked the #2 Most Innovative National University by US News and World Report, Georgia State is a leading force in the digital transformation of higher education. Georgia State's central technology services group, Instructional Innovation and Technology (IIT), seeks to inspire, support, and enable innovative solutions to advance learning, research and economic enterprise. IIT is leading the pursuit to find solutions to the unique challenges associated with information technology and serve as leaders in a global network of knowledge creation and sharing by earning the role of valued partners and trusted advisors for evolving technology solutions, discovering, creating and implementing new models of higher education for a community of diverse learners, creating and supporting innovative solutions that improve the lives of our students, our city and our state, attracting, developing and retaining talented and capable professionals and fostering an innovative culture of leaders where collaboration, ownership, creativity and efficiency are key.

 

Georgia State University’s Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL) is looking for two (2) skilled and experienced Multimedia Communications Specialist, Leads. Multimedia Communication Specialists are creative professionals tasked with creating audio, video, graphics, and interactive web objects for GSU-affiliated face-to-face, hybrid and online certification and degree-credit programs.  This position will be responsible for supervising and working in partnership with other multimedia designers, and collaborating with instructional designers, and subject matter experts, and program managers. Multimedia Communications Specialist, Leads will coordinate and contribute to project teams responsible for planning, producing, assessing, and continuously improving GSU courses and programs.

 

The scope of responsibility will include these essential duties but is not limited to the following:

 

Multimedia Design

  • Build and integrate video, audio, graphics, data visualizations, and interactive multimedia into face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses.

  • Use templates to construct instructional multimedia.

  • Supervise the design, assessment, customization, and continuous improvement of multimedia design templates.

  • Consult with instructional designer, subject matter experts, and program administrators on multimedia-related solutions to pedagogical challenges.

  • Use a variety of computing platforms, software, audio-visual equipment, and other technologies to design instructional multimedia.

  • Assist users of the CETL’s video and audio recording studios.

  • Both individually and as a team member, create professional quality multimedia that meet the specific needs of project stakeholders. 

Professional Development, Research, and Outreach

  • Attend professional conferences, webinars, training sessions, or workshops.

  • Read professional books, articles, newsfeeds, and blogs.

  • Share new findings and insights with colleagues and stakeholders.

  • Stay up to date on emerging trends and technologies related to multimedia design and development and contribute to professional communities.  

Leadership and Project Management

  • Supervise multimedia design project work

  • Serve as project manager for multimedia design projects, communicating progress to multimedia design leads and management.

  • Supervise the work of associate and intermediate multimedia designers, part-time employees, and student workers, as they work on projects within and affiliated with the CETL’s multimedia design team.

  • Assist in the development of aesthetic standards for the CETL’s multimedia design team.

  • Develop and monitor the consistent use of shared project management workflows. 

Collaboration and Communication

  • Work individually and collaboratively to meet deadlines and expectations set for course and program design projects.

  • Organize, prioritize, schedule multiple work assignments to enable positive contributions to project teams.

  • Respond in a timely and professional manner to requests for information.

  • Adhere to communications and transparency guidelines, as established by project leads and managers.

  • Attend and be a positive contributor at check-in and team meetings.

  • Participate in work-related community events



QualificationsBachelor's degree and three years of related experience; or a combination of education and related experience.



College/Business Unit10/02/20, 11:59:00 PM

College/Business Unit: Instructional Innovation & Technology
Location: Atlanta Campus
Job Posting: 09/18/20, 12:00:00 AM

Organization

Founded in 1913 in Atlanta, Georgia State University is the second-largest and one of four research institutions in the University System of Georgia. The University serves one-fourth of the graduate students in the university system; it is within a one-hour commute of more than one-third of the state’s population. Approximately 80 percent of all Georgia State alumni live and work in Georgia.georgia_state_university1.jpg

Georgia State’s main campus is located on 34 acres in downtown Atlanta. University centers in Alpharetta, Brookhaven, Buckhead and Henry County offer students convenient suburban locations for graduate courses in business and education.

More than 50,000 students annually attend Georgia State University. While 90 percent of the students are from Georgia, students also come from all 50 states and 160 countries. More than 1,400 international students attend Georgia State and graduate students comprise 31 percent of the student population.

georgia_state_university2.jpgThe University offers more than 52 degree programs in more than 250 fields of study – from public policy and African-American studies to biology and health sciences. Degrees are offered at the bachelor’s, master’s, specialist and doctoral levels through six units: the College of Arts and Sciences, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, College of Education, College of Health and Human Sciences, College of Law and Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. In addition to the numerous degree programs, Georgia State offers full- and part-time programs and day, evening and weekend classes.

Students have many choices in extracurricular activities including more than 22 fraternities and sororities; and some 250 chartered student groups, including 60 degree-related student groups, seven religious, 24 law-oriented and 22 multicultural/international groups; and 10 honor societies. There is also an active student government association which includes the student senate and the judicial board.

The Georgia State Panthers are members of the Colonial Athletic Association and compete in 16 NCAA Division I intercollegiate men’s and women’s sports, including basketball, baseball, softball, golf, tennis, track and volleyball. The university announced in April 2008 that is will begin Division I-AA football in 2010.

The university’s innovative Touch the Earth program brings outdoor recreation ranging from backpacking, rock climbing, sailing, kayaking, rafting and water-skiing to out-of-state snow-skiing and snorkeling trips. And WRAS, Georgia State’s popular 100,000-watt radio voice, is the most powerful student-run radio station in the United States.

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