Digital Content Specialist, Hybrid, UC Online

Job Overview Support the development, coordination, and execution of digital and visual content across multiple channels. This position focuses on creating, updating, and maintaining visually engaging digital assets that align with university brand standards, accessibility requirements, and marketing goals. Essential Functions Create digital and visual content for distribution across multiple channels, including websites, marketing collateral, email, presentations, paid and organic social media, and other digital platforms. Design, format, and update digital assets while ensuring consistency with university brand standards, visual identity guidelines, and accessibility best practices. Coordinate, manage, and update digital content across web and marketing channels to ensure materials remain accurate, current, visually consistent, and user-friendly. Review, copyedit, and approve digital content, ensuring alignment with brand voice, design standards, accessibility expectations, and departmental goals. Apply the university’s web style guide and visual identity standards across digital platforms, while supporting consistent use of templates, design systems, CMS tools, and digital content processes. Serve as a resource for digital design standards, brand application, visual content best practices, accessibility, information architecture, and user experience considerations. Assist with strategies for keeping digital and visual content fresh, dynamic, engaging, and aligned with evolving marketing and communication needs. Collaborate with marketing, communications, content, web, and technical support teams to ensure digital assets and platforms meet accessibility, functionality, usability, and performance expectations, including compliance with applicable accessibility standards such as WCAG, Section 504, and Section 508. Perform related duties based on departmental need. This job description can be changed at any time. Required Education Bachelor’s Degree. Five (5) years of relevant work experience and/or other specialized training can be used in lieu of education requirement. Required Experience One (1) year of experience related to content creation, web content management, social media management, or marketing communications. Knowledge of HTML, CSS and Adobe Creative Suite. Understanding of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Additional Qualifications Considered Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, including tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and/or Adobe Express. Experience creating digital graphics, branded templates, marketing collateral, social media assets, web visuals, email graphics, or presentation materials. Ability to apply brand standards, visual identity systems, typography, layout, and design best practices across digital and print-adjacent materials. Physical Requirements / Work Environment Office environment/no specific unusual physical or environmental demands. Compensation and Benefits UC offers an exceptional benefits package designed to support your well‑being, financial security, and work‑life balance. Comprehensive Tuition Remission UC provides tuition remission for you and your eligible dependents, covering tuition costs for nearly all undergraduate and graduate programs offered by the university. Robust Retirement Plans As a UC employee, you won’t contribute to Social Security (except Medicare). Instead, you’ll choose between state pension plans (OPERS, STRS) or an Alternative Retirement Plan (ARP), with UC contributing 14–18% of your salary based on position. Real Work‑Life Balance UC prioritizes work‑life balance with a generous time‑off policy, including: Vacation and sick time 11 paid holidays and additional end‑of‑year paid time off (Winter Season Days) 6 weeks of paid parental leave for new parents Additional Benefits Include Competitive salary based on experience Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription) Flexible spending accounts & wellness programs Professional development & mentorship opportunities E‑Verify UC is an E‑Verify employer. If hired into this position, you will be required to provide satisfactory proof of employment eligibility by providing acceptable, original forms of identification for employment verification via the Federal I‑9 employment verification process. Equal Opportunity Employer Building a workplace where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, including Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans. #J-18808-Ljbffr Critical Playground LLC