Description: The Promotion Director oversees the marketing and public outreach of Roundabout.
Requirements:
- Creativity, conscientiousness, and an understanding of rhetoric that appeals to collegiate audiences
- Familiarity with social media
- Experience with or eagerness to learn basic WordPress web design skills
- Attend weekly editorial meetings (they usually last for an hour)
- Attend bi-weekly all-staff meetings
Assignments:
- Manage Roundabout’s social media
- Post at least one Instagram post or Instagram story per week
- Use photos selected by the photo editor to post outtakes from story assignments
- Interact with our social media audience and work to expand our following
- Assist the editorial staff with editing and managing the website
- Publish announcements of issue publications, release parties and other events
- Assist the editorial staff with recruitment efforts via GetInvolved, the University Events Calendar, DASA news and other means
- Brainstorm and execute ideas to increase the magazine’s outreach
Other Responsibilities
- Meet weekly with the Roundabout staff to assess progress and deadlines.
- Be an example to new staff.
- Other duties as assigned by the editor-in-chief.
To Apply:
- Prepare your resume
- Pick the Instagram page or website of one of three preeminent Southern collegiate magazines: Talisman (@wkutalisman), Distraction (@distractionmag) or Midas (@midas.mag)
- Analyze your chosen Instagram page or website, using the questions below as a guide:
- What does the page or website do successfully? What does it do unsuccessfully (if anything)? How does it appeal to a collegiate audience? If you became promotion director, what would you do differently?
- There is no length requirement for your analysis: an abundance of insight, not an abundance of words, is the goal.
- Create a recruitment ad for Roundabout!
- The ad can be any genre: a video, social media post, print ad, website leaderboard, ect. This folder has some past examples if you need inspiration.
- If you are making a print or website ad, please use the dimensions listed in the rate card folder.
- The other editors and I are available to answer any questions or give information to help you create this, just like we would be if you become promotion director.
- If you give us permission, we’ll use your ad!
- Email your resume, Instagram or website review, and recruitment ad to roundabout-editor@ncsu.edu by 11/21 (the Tuesday before Thanksgiving break). Please copy amjavan@ncsu.edu and enpeedin@ncsu.edu on the email as well.
- After we review your application, we’ll schedule a brief interview (most likely over zoom or google meet)!