Digital Media Specialist

New York Sea Grant (NYSG) seeks a dynamic and high energy individual to join our team as a full time Digital Media Specialist for the program. 

The Digital Media Specialist will be responsible for, among other things: (a) social media posts (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube); (b) Website maintenance (www.nyseagrant.org); and (c) Graphic design and layout for New York Coastlines (the program’s e-newsletter), as well as publications such as brochures, fact sheets, letterhead, business cards and other various promotional items.

The person in this position will help to effectively raise awareness of the program’s efforts and impacts across the State, and enhance access by our coastal communities and partners to information, products, and tools of relevance and importance to them.

The position, which will be under the supervision of NYSG’s Communications Manager, will be based at Stony Brook University (SBU), but support the program across the State, which includes travel.

Regarding telecommuting — Consistent with SBU’s current employment and telework policies, after completion of a full year of employment and a satisfactory performance review, eligibility to participate in the SBU telework program will be available and evaluated. As per SBU’s policies, employees will be expected to have a regular in-person presence at the official work location. Employees should not expect to be approved to telecommute on a full-time or near full-time basis.

Since 1971, New York Sea Grant, a cooperative program of Cornell University and the State University of New York, has been one of 34 university-based programs working with coastal communities under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Sea Grant College Program.