Digital Media Coordinator

WAKA Action 8 News is looking for a full-time passionate, talented and hard-working Digital Coordinator to assist in digital operations across multiple departments, including sales, promotions, and news.

The ideal candidate will play a critical role in execution, management, creation, and promotion of news and advertising content.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Pre-sale and post-sale exercises such as creation of sales presentation templates for events, promotions and sales packages
• Production and creation of daily, weekly, and monthly graphics, posts, videos, reels, shorts, and other content for the WAKA website and social channels; knowledge of scheduling posts on all Social Media outlets. This will include both News content and Sales/Promotions content.
• Work with News management to create and publish news segments to the website for special promotions
• Be proactive in content discovery as well as ideas for helping to grow social and website followers and engagement
• Creation of ads to be used in targeted digital campaigns (i.e. banner ads, Facebook ads, etc)
• Assist in promotion of station events including creating designated landing pages on  , online and social content to help promote the events, design of signage for certain events, assist in designs for event t-shirts and giveaway items.
• Creation, execution, and fulfillment of station contests (contest page on website, social posts, contest functionality, occasional contact with contest winners)
• Website and social pages management and updates
• Create and interpret data analytics for website and social media traffic across WAKA digital platforms.

Requirements:

• Knowledge of digital media products and general knowledge of local media landscape
• Highly organized and able to multitask in a fast paced environment
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Attention to detail; strong execution and follow up skills; highly proficient in double and triple checking all work
• Ability to handle multiple deadlines and priorities
• Proficient use of Microsoft Office Suite
• Bachelor’s Degree in marketing, advertising, communications or a similar field
• Experience with web design or Word Press
• Graphic design experience is required
• Social media content creation and management experience is required; strong familiarity and comfort with Meta (Facebook and Instagram)

If this sounds like you, WAKA-TV / Action 8 News could be your next home!

Please send resume to  . No phone calls please. EOE