What are the responsibilities and job description for the Events Coordinator (.5 FTE) / Communications Assistant - Social Media (.5 FTE) position at The Odyssey Preparatory Academy?
This position is a hybrid of a campus event coordinator and social media coordinator at the district level.
Event & Volunteer Coordinator (Goodyear Campus)
Position Hours:
- Part-time, afternoons
- Occasional Friday and evening hours depending on event needs
Responsibilities:
- Plan, organize and lead campus and family community events
- Utilize digital programs to create and distribute flyers/newsletters to parents and community members
- Canva
- Social media
- Screen Cloud
- Facilitate and assume responsibility for current fundraisers with partner organizations
- Cookie Dough
- Fun Run
- Scholastic
- Restaurant dinner nights
- Monthly staff luncheons and activities
- Monthly staff birthday celebrations
- Scholar Showcases/Concerts
- Teacher Appreciation
- Back to School Night
- Holiday theme events
- Maintain school event calendar and birthdays
- Write up bios on teachers for social media, newsletters, birthday highlights
- Monthly Pizza lunches for scholars
- Front lobby calendar
- Assist PE as needed for Field Day
- Assist STUGO/Ambassadors club with event execution and ideas
- Event nights
- Fundraising opportunities
- Community service opportunities
- Manage and train school volunteers
- Recruit and build relationships with volunteers
- Train on school procedures, requirements and responsibilities
- Schedule as needed for events and help around campus
Communications Assistant (Social Media & Advertising) - District
Position Hours:
Part-time - mornings and some Fridays as needed
Requirements:
- Understanding of media relations and digital media strategies
- Proficient in MS Office, photography software, and graphic design
- Solid editing, organizational and research skills
- Excellent communication abilities (oral and written)
- Strong attention to detail
- Self starter, willingness to take creative leaps while protecting the Odyssey brand
Responsibilities:
- Execute social media strategy
- Generate, edit, publish and share content (original text, images, video or HTML) that builds meaningful connections and encourages community members to take action
- Set up and optimize company pages within each platform to increase the visibility of company’s social content
- Moderate all user-generated content in line with the moderation policy for each community
- Create editorial calendars and syndication schedules
- Continuously improve by capturing and analyzing the appropriate social data/metrics, insights and best practices, and then acting on the information
- Collaborate with Communications Director weekly and liaison with campus event coordinators to build brand, manage reputation, and effectively share information with the community.
- Assist in executing current marketing campaigns
- Visit all campuses weekly, document Odyssey life with photos and video
- Organize media in one central location for future use
- Visit new communities, set up local events as needed