Sarah Lawrence College
Social & Visual Media Coordinator
🇺🇸 Bronxville, NY
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $50K - $55K
💻 Marketing
🗓️ November 17th, 2025
Canva
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Sarah Lawrence College is hiring a Social & Visual Media Coordinator. The role involves creating and managing social media content and visuals to support the Creative Services team in the Office of Marketing & Communications. Responsibilities include designing content for various media, managing a team of student workers, coordinating photo and video shoots, and exploring new tools for visual storytelling.
Highlights
- Create original social media content and dynamic short-form videos to support campaigns and storytelling.
- Manage and recruit a team of student workers focused on social media content creation.
- Provide design support including image resizing, photo retouching, digital ads, email banners, posters, and flyers.
- Coordinate and assist in photo and video shoots involving students, faculty, and staff.
- Maintain brand assets and provide basic training on branded templates using Canva or similar platforms.
- Proficiency required in social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok, Canva, and Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere).
- Preferred experience with photography, video production, HTML, and email platforms such as MailChimp.
- Requires a bachelor's degree and 1-3 years of professional experience in graphic design, communications, marketing, social media, or related fields.
- Salary range from $50,000 to $55,000 for a full-time position.
- Work includes collaboration across departments and mentoring college students in producing engaging content.
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Social & Visual Media Coordinator
Posting Details
Position Information
Job Title | Social & Visual Media Coordinator
Job Description | The Social & Visual Media Coordinator is a hands-on content creator supporting the Creative Services team in the Office of Marketing & Communications at Sarah Lawrence College. This junior-level role balances design, production, social media content creation, project coordination, and general support to help the team work efficiently and maintain a strong, consistent brand presence across all channels.
You’ll create visuals for social media, digital ads, email banners, posters, flyers, and more — and play a key role in generating original, fast-turnaround social content that complements campaigns in other channels such as digital advertising, web, and direct mail. You’ll build and manage a small team of student workers focused on social media content. You’ll help coordinate participation from students, faculty, and staff in photo/video shoots and related creative projects. You’ll be encouraged to take initiative, bring fresh ideas, and explore tools that support compelling visual storytelling across platforms.
This is an ideal opportunity for a creative thinker who’s organized, proactive, and eager to grow in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment. Curiosity and a willingness to experiment with new tools — including photography, video editing, mobile apps, and AI — are encouraged and valued.
Essential Duties Summary | Social Media Content Proactively identify, pitch, and create original content for the College’s social media channels. Create and produce dynamic short-form videos, interviews, and images to support key campaigns and storytelling goals. Research emerging trends and platform capabilities and monitor performance metrics to optimize content for maximum engagement. Coordinate with the broader marketing team to ensure social content aligns with other efforts (e.g., fundraising campaigns, admissions pushes, academic program highlights). Recruit and manage a team of student workers to help generate authentic, high-quality social media content.
Creative Services Team Support Handle basic design and photography requests, including image resizes, text updates, photo retouching, digital ads, email banners, web content, posters, flyers, and event promotions. Prepare and share photography selects as requested by colleagues. Document project requirements and assemble assets for vendors and freelancers as needed. Communicate project updates with all stakeholders and add relevant information to the department’s status report. Assist in coordinating participation of students, faculty, and staff in photo and video shoots and assistant on photo and video shoots. Support occasional email formatting and testing requests within programs like MailChimp. Perform light proofreading and quality checks. Support the team with other administrative and coordination tasks as needed. Design Support Manage and update brand folders, templates, and asset libraries in Canva (or similar platforms) and provide basic training, troubleshooting, and design feedback to campus partners using branded templates. Maintain the brand toolkit and support the implementation of brand standards in visual communications by campus partners. Explore and test creative tools (e.g., AI design apps, mobile video editors) to develop engaging, on-brand content.
Other Duties as Assigned
Required Qualifications | Required Bachelor’s degree and minimum 1-3 years professional work experience in graphic design, communications, marketing, social media content creation, or a related field. Proficiency in popular social media platforms (including Instagram, TikTok, and others) and comprehensive knowledge of social media content formats and trends. Proficiency in Canva and competency in visual design, including layout, color, and typography. Competency in Adobe Creative Cloud (particularly Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and Premiere). Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple projects at once. Able to work independently as well as collaboratively. Comfortable supporting users with varying levels of design experience. Enthusiasm for working with and mentoring college students to produce engaging, meaningful content.
Preferred Qualifications | Preferred Experience with photography, video, and/or assisting on photo and video shoots. Experience with HTML and email platforms such as Mailchimp.
EEO Statement | Sarah Lawrence seeks to recruit and retain a diverse administration, staff, and faculty. Every job opening is seen as an opportunity to increase diversity, and every effort will be made to expand the applicant pool in accordance with these goals. (Please see our Nondiscrimination Policy.) For information on Sarah Lawrence College, our curriculum, teaching methods, and philosophy of education, please see our website at: https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/.
Salary | $50,000 - $55,000
Position Type | Full Time
Job Description | The Social & Visual Media Coordinator is a hands-on content creator supporting the Creative Services team in the Office of Marketing & Communications at Sarah Lawrence College. This junior-level role balances design, production, social media content creation, project coordination, and general support to help the team work efficiently and maintain a strong, consistent brand presence across all channels.
You’ll create visuals for social media, digital ads, email banners, posters, flyers, and more — and play a key role in generating original, fast-turnaround social content that complements campaigns in other channels such as digital advertising, web, and direct mail. You’ll build and manage a small team of student workers focused on social media content. You’ll help coordinate participation from students, faculty, and staff in photo/video shoots and related creative projects. You’ll be encouraged to take initiative, bring fresh ideas, and explore tools that support compelling visual storytelling across platforms.
This is an ideal opportunity for a creative thinker who’s organized, proactive, and eager to grow in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment. Curiosity and a willingness to experiment with new tools — including photography, video editing, mobile apps, and AI — are encouraged and valued.
Essential Duties Summary | Social Media Content Proactively identify, pitch, and create original content for the College’s social media channels. Create and produce dynamic short-form videos, interviews, and images to support key campaigns and storytelling goals. Research emerging trends and platform capabilities and monitor performance metrics to optimize content for maximum engagement. Coordinate with the broader marketing team to ensure social content aligns with other efforts (e.g., fundraising campaigns, admissions pushes, academic program highlights). Recruit and manage a team of student workers to help generate authentic, high-quality social media content.
Creative Services Team Support Handle basic design and photography requests, including image resizes, text updates, photo retouching, digital ads, email banners, web content, posters, flyers, and event promotions. Prepare and share photography selects as requested by colleagues. Document project requirements and assemble assets for vendors and freelancers as needed. Communicate project updates with all stakeholders and add relevant information to the department’s status report. Assist in coordinating participation of students, faculty, and staff in photo and video shoots and assistant on photo and video shoots. Support occasional email formatting and testing requests within programs like MailChimp. Perform light proofreading and quality checks. Support the team with other administrative and coordination tasks as needed. Design Support Manage and update brand folders, templates, and asset libraries in Canva (or similar platforms) and provide basic training, troubleshooting, and design feedback to campus partners using branded templates. Maintain the brand toolkit and support the implementation of brand standards in visual communications by campus partners. Explore and test creative tools (e.g., AI design apps, mobile video editors) to develop engaging, on-brand content.
Other Duties as Assigned
Required Qualifications | Required Bachelor’s degree and minimum 1-3 years professional work experience in graphic design, communications, marketing, social media content creation, or a related field. Proficiency in popular social media platforms (including Instagram, TikTok, and others) and comprehensive knowledge of social media content formats and trends. Proficiency in Canva and competency in visual design, including layout, color, and typography. Competency in Adobe Creative Cloud (particularly Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and Premiere). Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple projects at once. Able to work independently as well as collaboratively. Comfortable supporting users with varying levels of design experience. Enthusiasm for working with and mentoring college students to produce engaging, meaningful content.
Preferred Qualifications | Preferred Experience with photography, video, and/or assisting on photo and video shoots. Experience with HTML and email platforms such as Mailchimp.
EEO Statement | Sarah Lawrence seeks to recruit and retain a diverse administration, staff, and faculty. Every job opening is seen as an opportunity to increase diversity, and every effort will be made to expand the applicant pool in accordance with these goals. (Please see our Nondiscrimination Policy.) For information on Sarah Lawrence College, our curriculum, teaching methods, and philosophy of education, please see our website at: https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/.
Salary | $50,000 - $55,000
Position Type | Full Time
Posting Detail Information
Posting Number | S00434P
Open Date |
Close Date |
Open Until Filled | Yes
Special Instructions to Applicants |
Open Date |
Close Date |
Open Until Filled | Yes
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Supplemental Questions
Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).
- How many years of experience do you have in this type of position?
- 0-1
- 1-3
- 3-5
- 5-7
- 7+
- What is the highest level of education attained?
- GED
- High School Diploma
- Associates Degree
- Bachelors Degree
- Masters Degree
- PHD
Documents Needed To Apply
Required Documents
- CV/Resume
- Cover Letter
Optional Documents
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