Working/Functional Title

Director of Creative Media

Position Summary

Michigan State Football is seeking candidates for the Director of Football Creative Media position to help drive the Spartan brand and fan experience to new levels.

The Director of Football Creative Media will oversee the football creative media department currently consisting of two full-time staff (Director of Creative Video and Director of Social Media / Still Photography) and eight seasonal creative content students.  The role of the Director of Football Creative Media is to oversee the direction of creative content design and strategy while acting as the lead graphic designer within the football creative department.  This position will work closely in collaboration with Spartan Vision as it relates to the overall athletic department creative content strategy.  This position reports directly to the General Manager / Executive Director of Player Personnel and Recruiting in Football with a dotted line to the Senior Associate Athletics Director for Strategic Initiatives and Brand Innovation.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Craft and execute football’s creative media strategy, concepts and ideas, including overseeing the areas of creative video and social media
• Oversight of the football creative media department
• Create and execute creative, trend setting ideas and concepts for the football program
• Create graphics following the brand standard guidelines of the department and inline with the content strategy for the football program
• Assist the Director of Social Media in translating creative content for Michigan State Football’s social media channels
• Help build our creative unit and assets through working with students and full-time staff
• Collaborate with multiple internal partners such as spartan vision, marketing, sales, communications and event management
• Continue to define the strategy and goals in order to achieve success in engaging fans and moving the Michigan State Athletics brand forward, by bringing energy to the creative process
• Other duties as assigned

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.

Required Degree

Bachelors

Minimum Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree
• At least two years of college or professional sports experience
• Experience editing and working with Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, etc.)
• Well versed in taking a project from conception to completion
• Ability to work some nights, weekends and holidays (non-standard work schedule)
• Independent self-starter who strives to be the best and grow in all aspects of their job
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills with ability to interact professionally with employees, students, student-athletes and fans
• Social Media literate
• Team-oriented individual with strong interpersonal communication skills
• Highly motivated individual ready to lead projects       
• Experience overseeing a creative content team. 
• Skilled in the art of Graphic Design.
• Able to manage multiple tasks with ease.
• Experience with building brands through digital content.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Takes pride in what you create.

Required Application Materials

• Resume
• Cover Letter
• A portfolio of graphic design work is required for this position, please upload with your application materials

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Website

www.msuspartans.com

MSU Statement

Michigan State University has been advancing the common good with uncommon will for more than 160 years. One of the top research universities in the world, MSU pushes the boundaries of discovery and forges enduring partnerships to solve the most pressing global challenges while providing life-changing opportunities to a diverse and inclusive academic community through more than 200 programs of study in 17 degree-granting colleges.

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Spartans work every day to advance the common good in uncommon ways.Together, we tackle some of the world?s toughest problems to find solutions that make life better?from alternative energy to better food safety to breakthrough medical and environmental applications achieved through rare isotope research.We teach. We explore and we discover. We collaborate and lead. We innovate, inspire, and empower. We achieve our potential and create circumstances that help our students and others achieve theirs.We're good at it, and we've been at it for more than 150 years.The nation?s pioneer land-grant university, MSU began as a bold experiment that democratized higher education and helped bring science and innovation into everyday life. The revolutionary concept became a model for the nation.Today, MSU is one of the top research universities in the world?on one of the biggest, greenest campuses in the nation. Home to nationally ranked and recognized academic, residential college, and service-learning programs, we?re a diverse community of dedicated students and scholars, athletes and artists, scientists and leaders.In ways both practical and profound, we work to create a stronger, more sustainable, and more hopeful future for all.

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