Position, Department: Creative Lead/Designer, Strategic Communications & Marketing
Type of Position: Full-time Hourly, Non-Exempt
Work Schedule, Hours per week: Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, 40 hours per week
Pay Range: $25.81-$33.57 and determined based on relevant years of work experience.
Benefits Category: Full-time Benefits
Position Summary: Manage the design and creative strategy for marketing solutions to elevate messages and calls to action from concept to delivery on behalf of Johnson County Community College (JCCC).
Required Qualifications:
- Requires a bachelor's degree and 6+ years of relevant experience.
- Considered highly skilled and proficient in discipline.
- Conducts complex, important work under minimal supervision and with wide latitude for independent judgment.
To be considered for this position we will require an application, resume, and cover letter.
*Unofficial transcripts are required for all Adjunct faculty and Faculty positions.
Position Details: Job duties include but are not limited to:
- Employ tactics that ensure all project requirements are met and aligned to JCCC brand guidelines, adhere to project objectives and strategic goals, and are completed on or before stated deadlines.
- Collaborate with departmental colleagues, including planners, writers, digital strategists, production partners, and colleagues from across campus who need tactical support for their initiatives. Meet to gain an understanding of marketing needs, capture ideas, and deliver impactful visual solutions. Plan concepts and ideas and present designs to stakeholders across JCCC and its affiliates.
- Create, plan, and deliver an integrated design strategic vision for print and digital design executions. Follow defined brand and aesthetic standards when making design decisions that promote JCCC and its affiliates to internal and external/community audiences.
- Use the latest design techniques to translate marketing and branding strategies in print and digital into innovative design campaigns that move the defined targeted audiences through the marketing funnel from engagement to action. Develop a nuanced understanding of strategic positioning and the needs of the target audience.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with copywriters, photographers, videographers, and other designers to creatively bring stories, data, ideas, concepts, and narratives to life using diverse types of media and substrates, including from print to digital to wayfinding and event promotion.
- Build and nurture positive relationships with vendors and colleagues across campus while managing expectations and incorporating feedback.
- Produce, curate, edit, and revise photos, graphics, and infographics, working under a moderate degree of autonomy.
- Champion continuous learning across the department and provide collegial guidance, direction, and feedback to current and potential students, interns, and Associate Designers.
- Research and discover trends and techniques for emphasis, balance, contrast, and movement for a center of attention and point of focus for all designs.
- Manage digital assets for optimization, accessibility, optimum communication, and proper alignment with vendor technical specifications. Catalog, organize, classify, and distribute digital assets, including audio, video, multimedia, and textual digital materials. Standardize concepts, terms, and relationships to search and retrieve digital files.
- Track and monitor metrics and key performance indicators for various initiatives, generating ongoing reports to provide insights and recommendations for continuous improvement. Make recommendations and adjust approaches as needed to achieve design goals.
- Maintain up-to-date industry knowledge of best practices and research emerging graphics and design tools, innovations, and technologies.
*Duties and responsibilities, as required by business necessity, may be added, deleted or changed at any time at the discretion of management, formally or informally, either verbally or in writing. Scheduling, shift assignments and work location may be changed at any time, as required by business necessity.
About JCCC: Established in 1969, Johnson County Community College is dedicated to transforming lives and strengthening communities through learning. Located in Overland Park, Kansas, JCCC has enjoyed a national reputation for educational excellence and student success for more than 50 years. That's five decades dedicated to smaller class sizes, more resources and a thriving campus culture – not to mention our competitive tuition rates and extracurricular experiences that transcend the norm.
Equal Employment Opportunity: JCCC provides equal opportunities and equal access to all individuals and is an affirmative action employer. JCCC does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, religion, marital status, parental status, military status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or other factors that cannot be lawfully considered in its programs and activities, which includes employment and admissions, in accordance with Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Executive Order 11246, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Vietnam Era Veteran’s Readjustment Assistance Act, the Jobs for Veterans Act of 2002, the Kansas Acts Against Discrimination and all other applicable civil rights and nondiscrimination laws.
Inquiries concerning JCCC's compliance with its nondiscrimination policies (including Title IX, Title VI and Section 504 inquiries) may be referred to a Title IX Coordinator (TitleIX@jccc.edu), or Director of Human Resources, or the Dean of Students and Learner Engagement at Johnson County Community College, 12345 College Blvd, Overland Park, KS 66210, 913-469-8500; or to Office for Civil Rights, Kansas City Office, U.S. Department of Education, One Petticoat Lane, 1010 Walnut Street, Suite 320, Kansas City, MO 64106, Telephone: 816-268-0550,Facsimile: 816-268-0559, Email to: OCR.KansasCity@ed.gov.
Disclosure: If you need any assistance throughout the search process, please reach out to the HR Generalist for this position. In accordance with the college policy, finalists for this position will be subject to criminal background investigations. Individual hiring departments at JCCC may elect to administer pre-employment tests, which are relevant to essential job functions as part of the applicant selection/hiring process. Many departments require those selected for hire to submit a certified transcript for all degrees obtained. For full consideration, applicants are encouraged to apply prior to the review date listed in posting.
If you are an applicant requesting assistance or a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact the Office of Human Resources at 913-469-3877, or email HR@jccc.edu.
