Job Description

Committee affiliation: Publicity

Responsibilities

Depending on your skills and interest, create one publicity item for the chapter such as a brochure, pin, mug, t-shirt, or event flyer or do one promotional task as directed by the Publicity Coordinator.

The Publicity Committee creates and maintains a chapter brochure, coordinates publicity with other committees, prepares event announcement postcards, designs and updates the chapter's calling card with the scheduled events for the year, and maintains a Public Relations binder of activities for the STC PR Competition.

Experience and Skills

• Familiarity with Facebook and Twitter use
• Familiarity with LinkedIn and other social media outlets
• WordPress.org 6.1.1+ Text Editor enough to post announcements
• Ability to post status updates to social meda, the website, or to the administrative council
• Good time management
• Strong communication / interpersonal skills
• An outgoing and friendly personality
• Good organizational skills
• Able to meet deadlines and able to identify and report problems with meeting those deadlines; willing to ask for help when needed

Equipment

• Computer with reliable Internet access
• Email address (Google is preferred for working with Google calendar, Basecamp, and other tools)
• Word processing software
• HTML / CSS / PHP text editor

Optional items that may be helpful:

• FAX or scanner
• Acrobat Pro
• Adobe PhotoShop
• Adobe Illustrator

Time Commitment

4 to 8 hours per year, or the amount of time it takes to create one publicity item for the chapter.

Contact

If you are interested in serving the chapter as a volunteer, please fill in the Chapter Volunteer Signup Form.

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