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Account Executive
What they need:
- Completion of JOUR 344: PR Strategy
- Excellent time management
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Interest in leadership
- Ability to manage and motivate peers to form high functioning teams
- Ability to plan and direct complex communication projects to ensure budgets and deadlines are met
What they do:
- Multiplatform storytelling: writing client content for a wide variety of needs including blogs, features, brochures, news releases, website content, etc.
- Conduct research and first-person interviews to develop written materials
- Work with news organizations to secure coverage of clients’ news, events and activities
- Plan and implement special events, strategic communications plans, social media programs, etc.
Assistant Account Executive
What they need:
- Completion of, or concurrently enrolled in, JOUR 344: PR Strategy
- Good time management
- Strong interpersonal skills
What they do:
- Write feature stories, news releases or other media materials.
- Conduct research and first-person interviews to develop media materials
- Plan and implement special events, strategic communications plans, social media programs, etc.
- Media pitching
- Work with creative staff to design organizational media such as newsletters, brochures, etc.
Editorial Director
What they need:
- Successful completion of JOUR 327: Media Editing, Proofreading and Entry-level Layout
- Excellence with copy editing and AP Style
What they do:
- Lead editorial meetings
- Coach editing team
- Edit agency material
- Present at agency meetings
Editorial Assistant
What they need:
- Completion of, or concurrently enrolled in JOUR 327: Media Editing, Proofreading and Entry-level Layout
What they do:
- Work under the direction of the editorial director
- Fact check, proofread for client, University Editing and AP Style and review work for visual presentation
Social Media Director
What they need:
- Prior social media experience
- Ability to be creative while planning post
What they do:
- Lead the social media team
- Create and plan content for all TGC social media platforms
Social Media Team
What they do:
- Post and create content for all TGC social media platforms
- Come up with social media strategies
- Track analytics
Art Director
What they need:
- Prior TGC experience
- Prior leadership with visual communications internship required
What they do:
- Leads the creative team: graphic designers, photographers and videographers
- Facilitates critique: reviews the work of the design staff and helps them interpret client needs
- Works directly with clients to solve their visual communication needs
Graphic Designers
What they need:
- Ability to work with professional printers, web developers or hosting services
- MADT portfolio review
What they do:
- Work directly with clients on print and digital media projects
- Create special event materials: invitations, posters, signs and advertisements
- Collaborate with TGC staff on visual storytelling
- Create social media design elements and infographics
- Create organizational branding elements: logos, brand guidelines, brochures, etc.
Web Designers
What they do:
- Work directly with clients to improve the look, feel and usability of their web materials
- May work with web contractors to hand design off for coding
- Collaborate with journalism and media arts students who typically generate written, photographic and video aspects of client projects
- Work with respective account teams to meet deadlines
Photographers/Videographers
What they need:
- Preferred applicants are media arts majors
- Completion of JOUR 353: Photojournalism, for J&PR majors
- Extensive experience shooting photo and video outside of classroom exercises
What they do:
- Meet with clients to determine artistic needs.
- Attend events and orchestrate photo shoots
- Contribute to creative photos/videos
- Work with the respective account teams to meet deadlines
- Source legal music and art for client video projects
- Demonstrate an artistic eye and expertise on how to convey a concept through multimedia storytelling
General Manager
What they need:
- Prior TGC or other PR leadership experience
- Superior writing and editing skills
- Faculty recommendations
What they do:
- Serve on two accounts, the TGC PR team and a client account
- Facilitate effective client-facing communication
- Coach AEs on team management
Public Relations Director
What they do:
- Support the general manager in leading the agency and serving our client’s needs
- Create and execute a plan to raise the agency’s visibility both on and off-campus
- Manage a Giving Tuesday fundraiser campaign in the spring
- Create and order TGC branded materials
- Support the adviser with alumni relations
- Plan and execute TGC recruitment efforts
PR Assistant
What they do:
- Plan site visit
- Plan socials for TGC staff
- Support the PR director in raising brand visibility
Online Communication Director
What they do:
- Review and update the TGC website to ensure content is accurate and current
- Review and post blog entries
- Analyze and recommend website readability and navigation
- Update web images, including staff profiles