The ideal person for this position will be an enthusiastic PR-oriented student who wants to gain experience doing real PR work. He/she will be a professionally involved participant in the McClure School's publicity and recruiting efforts. The occupant will have a fair amount of hands-on work, but will have the opportunity to help shape the School's strategy and exercise creativity in design of projects and materials. The ideal candidate will have class work and/or work experience in public relations.
Our practice has been to have two PR assistants, an academic senior and an academic junior. This means each assistant works with both their predecessor and their successor. At any time we have a team of two to share the workload and share their ideas. It’s worked well. We hope to hire someone who will return next year to be the senior member of the team.
Here's a partial list of the Assistant's work:
Internal Student Recruiting
• Organize / publicize / participate in recruitment events
• Pub: Ad in Post, mailings to undecided students, etc.
• Room, food, etc.
• Assist with Majors Fair
• Assist with other special events
Social Media
• Write & Post updates / spotlights / events to Facebook, website, twitter
ITS Event Publicity: posters, press releases, ads, etc.
• Scholarship Golf Tournament in fall
• ITS Day / Comm Week in spring
• Scripps Day in fall
• ITS Innovation Fund
General
• Maintain photo library
• Coordinate with SCOC publicity person, especially for College e-news
• Publicize events for the student organization TSMA – Telecom Systems Management Association.
Other duties as assigned. The position is likely to evolve with time. The assistant will have the opportunity to shape the position.
Contact for more information:
Philip Campbell
Director
J Warren McClure School of Information and Telecommunication Systems Ohio University
740-593-4907
campbelp@ohio.edu