Creative Associate Director

Job Summary:

The Creative Associate Director leads and oversees creative, web, multimedia, and print content across the UW-Madison School of Education.
Reporting to the Associate Dean of Communications and Advancement, the position works collaboratively across the organization to produce impactful, accessible, and visually appealing products that advance the School's larger goals.
This position supervises web development, multimedia, and design professionals, while working closely across the Office of Communications and Advancement in aligned areas of communications, marketing, and advancement. The Creative Associate Director oversees and evolves the School of Education's brand, processes, visual reputation, and user experience work across its various platforms and publications. The position plays a central role in effectively managing and maximizing various types of content produced by the Office of Communications and Advancement.
The highly ranked UW-Madison School of Education is unique in that it is home to 10 departments that house faculty and staff conducting a range of research across the arts, health, and education. The Creative Associate Director plays an important role in helping the School advance its most strategic work with its audiences and more than 50,000 alumni.

Responsibilities:
Assists with creative content production's strategic planning and execution. Provides subject matter expertise and consultation to stakeholders and supervises staff.

• 10% Develops, implements, and maintains work unit identity, design standards, policies, and procedures to ensure appropriate use of financial, administrative, and staffing resources
• 20% Develops and monitors creative communication plans and dissemination protocols, workflows, and progress measurements to ensure production adheres to unit objectives in alignment with strategic initiatives
• 5% Creates, designs, and produces artwork per client specifications through various mediums
• 25% Serves as a subject matter expert and liaison between external and internal stakeholders providing information regarding creative design strategies and representing the interests of the unit
• 10% Maintains unit budget and financial records to ensure adherence with institution and rules and regulations
• 20% Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
• 5% Strategizes ways to improve the user experience of the website and manages information architecture strategy leveraging analytics and other data (5%)
• 5% Leads School-wide website quality, performance, efficiency, and compliance with accessibility, security, privacy, and other university requirements and laws (5%)

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.
For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion

Education:

Preferred
Bachelor's Degree

Qualifications:

Required
-Minimum of 3 years experience supervising a team of creative communications, web, marketing, or design professionals
-Minimum of 5 years experience working in any one of the following creative-adjacent contexts: graphic design, video, photography, user experience, web development, account project management
Preferred:
-Experience with project management principles - managing stakeholders, deadlines, performance and expectations
-Exemplary interpersonal and written communication skills
-Knowledge of user experience principles
-Familiarity with accessibility best practices
-Experience in cross-cultural communications or lived experience working across cultures, ages groups, and/or languages
-Experience working with project management and customer relationship management software

Work Type:

Full Time: 100%
This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. This position has the ability to work up to 2 days remote per week at an offsite, non-campus work location after an initial training period. Occasional night and weekend work required for events. Scheduling to be discussed at time of hire.

Appointment Type, Duration:

Ongoing/Renewable

Salary:

Minimum $80,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
Actual hiring rate will be commensurate with education and experience. This position will be eligible for a comprehensive benefits package.

Additional Information:

The deadline for assuring full consideration is March 28, 2024, however, this position will remain open and applications may be considered until this position is filled.

How to Apply:

To apply for this position, please upload a current resume, a cover letter addressed to Marianne Spoon, and a list of three professional references by 3/28/24. References will not be contacted until the final interview stage.

Contact:

Questions about the position can be directed to:

Claire Carlson
[email protected]
608-265-3047

1000 Bascom Mall
Education Building
Madison, WI 53706-1326
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.

Official Title:

Creat Assoc Dir (B)(CM079)

Department(s):

A17-SCHOOL OF EDUCATION/GEN ADMIN/DEAN'S OFFICE

Employment Class:

Academic Staff-Renewable

Job Number:

294605-AS

 
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