Marketing Department
Provides in-house marketing and promotion support to all program areas
listed.
Employment Opportunities:
Marketing Assistant
General Information:
The marketing assistant is a part-time hourly position in the Marketing
Department of the Division of Recreational Sports that provides general
support to the Marketing Director; including managing and implementing
the distribution of marketing materials on and off campus, promoting the
Division of Recreational Sports through personal selling and public
speaking, coordinating media relations with the ids, and providing
clerical support in the office.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Distribution of Marketing materials
- Create a literature/materials storage, tracking and distribution
system for the SRSC and HPER and IMU literature racks; track quantities,
place reorders, maintain neat appearance of racks, keep materials
current; remove outdated or unauthorized materials; transport materials
between the 3 locations.(position requires heavy lifting of boxes of
materials)
- Distribute program area flyers, brochures, posters, door hangers,
pamphlet holders etc. to on campus academic and residence hall
buildings and groups as requested or according to a scheduled plan; Track
effectiveness of distribution and make recommendations for improvement;
- Assist with SOS distribution of materials in January/February.
- Distribute materials to off-campus locations; research and determine
which locations, distribute materials and track results.
- Responsible for the distribution of 30,000 Guides to Recreational
Sports
- Personal Selling /Campus Canvassing
- Public speaking/selling programs and services to individuals, small
groups, and large groups (at health fairs, festivals, resource fairs for
freshman, freshman orientation during summer, summer graduate student
orientations)
- Research, make and confirm arrangements, and present to graduate
student orientations in August/September.
- Market Division Recfest (August) to freshman via flyers and personal
selling;
- Assist with setup and personal selling at RecFest.
- Design semester (summer) long plan to campus canvass in academic
buildings and residence halls; organize materials and staff tables
- Media Relations with ids
- Develop topics, research and write and send out press releases for
all program areas within the Division to the ids and H-T when relevant.
- Develop, produce copies, package and distribute press kits
- Maintain contacts with the ids editors, sports editors, sports writers,
and Happenings section of the ids; track changes in staff and report to
Division.
- Assist with tracking printed ids ads and paying ids bill
- Clerical Support
- Filing/cataloging photographs and newspaper articles
- Copying, faxing, MAXI duplicating, typing, email
- Mailing out boxes of Guides, bulk mailings
- Running errands on and off campus
- Assist with set up for special events
- Assist with focus group arrangements
Marketing Assistant, Graphic Artist
General Information: The marketing assistant, graphic artist is a
part-time hourly position in the Marketing Department of the Division of
Recreational Sports, that provides computer generated graphic design and
photography support to the Coordinator, Promotions/Publicity;
Specific Responsibilities:
Projects include scanning photographs, designing flyers and ids ads,
assisting with photography studio sessions, taking photographs on site,
creating displays, assisting with multi-media projects, maintaining
resource file of photographs, assisting with design of special event
materials, producing schedules, creating logos, and assisting with
production of other full-color, printed marketing materials.
Qualifications:
Computer Skills Required:
Proficient in the use of Apple MacIntosh computers and QuarkXpress,
Photoshop, Illustrator and email.
Working knowledge of Word, Excel
Ability to learn and or recommend new applications as necessary
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