Job Description
Salary: $34,980.00 Annually
Location : Augusta, GA
Job Type: Full Time Permanent
Job Number: 201203848
Department: Library
Opening Date: 06/13/2025
Closing Date: Continuous
DESCRIPTION Under the direction of the Administration team, performs professional, journalistic, and community relations work for marketing, public relations, and advertising through a variety of communication platforms.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES - Researches, prepares, and coordinates graphics and the writing of information materials for inclusion in media (television, radio, newspaper, and social media) and creates brochures, pamphlets, bulletins, newsletters, and audio-visual presentations to communicate information about the library system to its constituents.
- Coordinates volunteer program by recruiting volunteers, creating volunteer position descriptions, processing volunteer applicants, providing basic training, tracking volunteer hours, evaluating volunteer performance, and recognizing volunteers for their service.
- Evaluates the effectiveness of communications efforts.
- Creates effective public relations/communication strategies, goals, and objectives for the library.
- Assists in locating public and private grants for public libraries and participate in the application process under the direction of the Administration team as required.
- Maintains working knowledge of contemporary issues, trends, and technology in the library profession and communications.
- Prepares speeches and help maintain the identity and reputation of the library or representatives.
POSITION SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES MIGHT INCLUDE: - Develop weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual medial activity reports
- Plan, create, and oversee the design, content, and production of marketing materials
- Coordinate external and internal communication workflow
- Build long-term relationship with influencers and key stakeholder
- Collaborate with marketing team
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS Education: BA/BS in Communications
{Please note: Upon job offer, you will be required to provide proof of education. Be sure to have the appropriate documents readily available.}
Experience: Two (2) years to include computer, organizational, journalism, communications, social media and writing skills.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: - Skilled in the use of social media platforms, desktop publishing, graphics, video software and audio -visual equipment
- Excellent communications, teaching and writing skills
- Outgoing and confident
- Good public speaking skills
- Problem solving ability
- Good judgement and decision making skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Flexible to adjust plans based on the needs of the organization
- Understanding of public relations concepts and practices
- Ability to build strong interpersonal relationship with staff, volunteers, the public, and media personnel.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently
- Good communication skills.
- Ability to make public presentations and relate well to a wide cross section of the community.
- Proficiency in technologies and preparing and presenting programming, operating audiovisual equipment, problem solving and interpersonal relations.
- Analytical mind with attention to details
- Skills in setting up displays is preferred.
PERFORMANCE APTITUDES: - Data Utilization : Requires the ability to evaluate, audit, deduce, and/or assess data using established criteria. Includes exercising discretion in determining actual or probable consequences and in referencing such evaluation to identify and select alternatives.
- Human Interaction: Requires the ability to work with and apply principles of persuasion and/or influence over others to coordinate programs or activities of a project, and resolve typical problems associated with the responsibilities of the job.
- Verbal: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, advisory and/or design data and information.
- Math: Occasionally requires the ability to perform basic calculations.
- Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership, and to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to resolve problems.
- Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving broader aspects of organizational programs and operations, moderately unstable situations, or the direction, control and planning of an entire program or set of programs.
- Physical Abilities: Tasks require the ability to perform sedentary to light work which may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or work station.
- Sensory Requirements: Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades of colors, depth, texture, and visual cues or signals.
- Environmental Factors: Essential functions are regularly performed without exposure to adverse environmental conditions.
OTHER The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this job.
Augusta-Richmond County's comprehensive benefit package includes: Vacation
Holiday
Sick
Medical
Dental
Vision
Life
Long-Term Disability Insurance
Pension
For a more detailed overview of our benefit package, please visit our website below: 01
Are you a current employee of Augusta Richmond County?
02
Do you have a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science degree or higher in communications?
03
Which of the following best describes your experience to include computers, organizational, journalism, communications, social media, and writing skills?
- One year of experience
- Two years of experience
- Three years of experience
- Four or more years of experience
Required Question City of Augusta, GA
Job Tags
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