John Carroll University

Blue Streak Media Director

Posting Number: AS661P

Summary:

The Director of the Tim Russert Department of Communication’s Blue Streak Media, an entrepreneurial student-run multimedia organization serving the needs and interests of our students, campus, and community, creates and leads a fully integrated unit that leverages the university’s radio station, video production studio, student newspaper, and Public Relations Student Society of America chapter (PRSSA) to create content for curricular and co-curricular purposes, as well as to design and deliver digital projects to internal and external clients. The Director guides all facets of student media, works to ensure that the University has innovative multimedia production facilities, helps faculty embed multimedia work in their courses, equips students with the skills needed to achieve success in a career in modern media, and establishes Blue Streak Media as a signature component of the Tim Russert Department of Communication. The Director builds partnerships with local and regional media outlets to enhance opportunities for students to create and produce content for external partners.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Oversee the integration of student media organizations through the creation of Blue Streak Media. This includes designing operational structure, coordinating budget to be more effective in purchasing, leading a continuous improvement process for all media facilities and equipment, and all other tasks necessary to create a student media organization.
• Provide a long-term vision for student media, including the development of a strategic/business plan. Convene an advisory group to assist in development of long-term planning and external opportunities for Blue Streak Media.
• Provide reports to the chair of the Department of Communication that clearly detail goals, successes, failures, changes, awards and other pertinent information on student media performance. Manage/advise one co-curricular area within the Communication Department.
• Develop co-curricular and curricular experiential learning opportunities for student staff. Hold regular and standardized training sessions for all student media staff members, working with advisors to assist in preparation for professional careers in the media industry. Recognize and develop leadership and personal growth opportunities among student staff members.
• Collaborate with faculty to integrate student co-curricular experience with academic preparation.
• Manage budget decisions, ensuring appropriate distribution of operational funds to assist in achieving long term goals.
• Plan, budget and purchase equipment and supplies necessary for the various student media groups.
• Develop opportunities for revenue and student production experience within the campus and Cleveland community, broadly defined.
• Work with individual student interest areas’ advisors to identify, recruit, interview and hire student managers to assist in daily operations of student media.
• Establish a broad network of academic and industry professionals to provide support for students. Identify professional internship opportunities for students in collaboration with the department internship coordinator.
• Perform outreach with alumni committed to media and communication.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in communication, mass communication, or a closely related discipline
• Five or more years’ professional experience in media
• Substantial supervisory experience
• Knowledge of and experience with design, maintenance, enhancement of multimedia facilities
• Technical skills such as animation proficiency, familiarity with 2D/3D graphics software applications, motion graphics design knowledge,
• Ability to capture data accurately and interpret it efficiently, innovative problem-solving skills, as well as the knowledge of production studio setup, are desirable
• Professional-level technical skills in audio and video editing, scripting, storyboarding, Adobe Creative Suite experience, knowledge of digital formats and codecs, sound design and mixing capabilities, camera operation and cinematography, lighting control capabilities, general non-linear editing hardware & software maintenance experience, and the US copyright law compliance knowledge.
• Demonstrate leadership and supervisory capabilities.
• Possess strategic planning skills and strong fiscal and budget management abilities
• Effective written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills
• Interest in understanding and supporting John Carroll’s mission to inspire individuals to excel in learning, leadership, and service in the region and in the world

Preferred Qualifications:

• Successful experience integrating the work of various partners
• Demonstrated ability to develop and/or deliver real life learning opportunities for students
• Forward thinking and comfortable leading change— able to anticipate trends, opportunities, and challenges and bring forth innovative solutions that will produce continuous improvement and ensure currency of programs, services, and outcomes
• Possesses relevant certifications/licenses (e.g., APR, College Media Association Advisor Certification).

Normal Working Hours and Conditions:

Physical Requirements:

Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in an office setting; to stand or sit for prolonged periods of time; to occasionally stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, reach, and twist; to lift, carry, push, and/or pull light to moderate amounts of weight; to operate office equipment requiring repetitive hand movement and fine coordination including use of a computer keyboard; to travel to other office locations and to verbally communicate to exchange information.

About John Carroll University:

John Carroll University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit Catholic university, founded in 1886, dedicated to developing women and men with the knowledge and character to lead and to serve. The University is located in University Heights, Ohio, an attractive residential suburb 10 miles east of downtown Cleveland. Academically, the University consists of the College of Arts and Sciences and the Boler College of Business, which both include graduate programs. The University offers 70 Academic Programs in the arts, social sciences, natural sciences, and business at the undergraduate level, and in select areas at the master’s level. The University enrolls approximately 3,000 undergraduate students and 500 graduate students and has a student-to-faculty ratio of 13:1. John Carroll University is one of 27 Jesuit universities in the United States and has been listed in U.S. News & World Report magazine’s top 10 rankings of Midwest regional universities for more than 30 consecutive years.

EEO Statement:

John Carroll University is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to diversity in the workplace and strongly encourages applications from women and minorities, veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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