Digital Editor and Designer - Red Jacket

About the role

A digital designer will support the Red Jacket Content Creators that go out and work on Friday nights, as well as curating content throughout the week that lifts up our Nexstar digital teams and social media efforts.

Responsibilities

• Experience developing and publishing content, on digital and social platforms.
• Ability to create high-quality graphics using top-flight software.
• Understanding how to work new media tech like gimbels, phones, microphones.
• Knows how to use OBS for live streaming, shows, and recordings.
• Can be a real-time admin for live and curated content.
• Experience using webpage construction through sites like Wordpress.
• Excellent writer and Storyteller with superior “high school football news” judgement.
• Knowledge of social media, football, pop culture, and current events.
• Experience editing unscripted web content, montages, comedic clips, interviews, and football games.
• Great writing and copy editing skills and attention to detail.
• Thrive under deadline pressure.
• Stellar communication skills.

Requirements

• Available every Friday night from mid-August to the Silver Pigskin Gala in December.
• Ability to work “on call” when certain graphic or social needs will be met.
• Knows football and can recognize a storyline within the game when you see it, and you must be able to create that story line to tell the story on multiple platforms.
• Thrives in a competitive, fearless culture of creativity and expertise.
• The ideal Digital Editor and Designer knows football, lives and breathes digital content, and is driven by a passion for storytelling and staying ahead of the competition.
• Organizational and collaborative skills, as well as an ability to prioritize are a must.
• Create compelling, UX-Focused (User Experience) content related to San Diego High School football news, events, and topics relevant to the local audience and beyond.

Qualifications

• Punctual.
• Willing to learn and learn quickly.
• Available every Friday night from August to the Silver Pigskin Gala in December.
• Possess clean driving record.
• Have HD quality video gear and sports experience if applying for videography positions.

Skills

• Experience developing and publishing content, on digital and social platforms.
• Ability to create high-quality graphics using top-flight software.
• Understanding how to work new media tech like gimbels, phones, microphones.
• Knows how to use OBS for live streaming, shows, and recordings.
• Experience using webpage construction through sites like Wordpress.
• Excellent writer and Storyteller with superior “high school football news” judgement.
• Knowledge of social media, football, pop culture, and current events.
• Experience editing unscripted web content, montages, comedic clips, interviews, and football games.
• Great writing and copy editing skills and attention to detail.
• Thrive under deadline pressure.
• Stellar communication skills.

Benefits

Compensation: $17.75/hour commensurate with experience and skill level; part-time, 10-hours per week.

Pay

$17.75/hour commensurate with experience and skill level; part-time, 10-hours per week.

Schedule

Part-time, 10-hours per week, from mid-August to the Silver Pigskin Gala in December.