Digital Content Associate at the Brooklyn Museum
Job Title: Digital Content Associate
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: $60,000
Description
The Digital Content Associate is a key member of our growing Engagement division, working with staff within the team and across the entire museum to make the content on the Brooklyn Museum’s website and digital platforms dynamic, informational, and fun.
Reporting to the Senior Web Content Manager, the Digital Content Associate will act as a traffic manager to publish content on the Museum’s website via the CMS; keep programming, educational, and other event information up to date; brainstorm, plan, and produce new content across platforms; and help ensure that the website is part of an excellent experience for visitors, for Museum Members, and for art lovers around the world.
The Associate will also play a key role in one of the Museum’s major upcoming projects: the redesign of the BrooklynMuseum.org website.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary publisher of content on the BrooklynMuseum.org website. Work within content management system to cleanly format images, videos, and text using existing templates and custom pages to create beautiful, informational, and accessible web pages
- Help brainstorm and produce editorial content originating with the Engagement team, including special pages and content streams for exhibitions and institutional priorities, activations of permanent collections, and content for apps, social media channels, and email program
- Manage publication requests from other teams within the museum: take in correspondence, gather missing information, oversee content through the editorial and quality-assurance process, and publish to the web
- Act as the keeper of the Brooklyn Museum web calendar, working with Programming, Education, Development, and other teams to keep event information up to date for an excellent visitor experience
- Work closely with the digital content team and Digital Project Manager to develop and implement improvements to internal publication and content production processes, guidelines, and forms
- Help manage content approval processes where needed
- Help assess performance of content on the website and other channels, pulling statistics and presenting to the team as needed
Requirements
Qualifications:
- At least three years of digital experience at a digital-media outlet or mission-oriented organization
- Prior writing and/or content production experience
- Experience and medium proficiency or higher with HTML/CSS
- Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Exceptional organizational skills, capacity to manage different workstreams and projects simultaneously, and ability to balance near- and long-term deadlines
- Exceptional attention to consistency and detail
- Experience using WordPress or a CMS equivalent
- Experience with project management software is preferred, but not required
- Bonus: Love of art and visual design!
Start date: Immediately
Department: Engagement
Reports to: Senior Web Content Manager
Position type: Full-time
Salary: $60,000
Union status: Union – UAW Local 2110
FLSA status: Non-exempt
Schedule: 35 hours per week, Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm
If you have questions about our online application system, please get in touch with us at job.application.questions@brooklynmuseum.org.
At the Brooklyn Museum, we value all types of experience. For us, a successful candidate has many of the qualities listed in our job postings, and the desire and capacity to learn the rest on the job. So if much, but not all, of a job posting describes you, then we welcome your application.