Communication and Outreach Assistant

**WE ARE ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THIS POSITION FROM ALL STUDENTS REGARDLESS OF WORK STUDY AWARD**

The Southwest Environmental Finance Center (Southwest EFC) within UNM's Center for Water and the Environment is searching for a creative Communications & Outreach Assistant to support our marketing and communications efforts. The Communications & Outreach Assistant will work closely with the Communication & Outreach Specialist as well as project directors to execute comprehensive marketing strategies (ranging from traditional to digital/social media) to support a variety of Southwest EFC projects. The position will also include podcast and video production, event planning and coordination, and administrative work to support the Southwest EFC. We provide solutions to environmental problems via training and technical assistance on various topics associated with drinking water, wastewater, stormwater, and other environmental topics. The Southwest EFC was created by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) in 1992 to serve the states within EPA Region 6 (including NM, TX, AR, OK and LA). Since then, the Southwest EFC has greatly expanded its work to serve the entire country, including the five U.S. territories.

Position Duties

• Assist Southwest EFC trainers with training events including finding event space, marketing, registration, and post training data entry.
• Process intake calls with water systems who may want to receive assistance from the SW EFC. This involves making cold calls and coordinate meetings to talk with water systems about challenges they are facing.
• Assist with outreach activities, marketing strategies, and communication materials for Southwest EFC projects (ranging from traditional to digital/social media marketing).
• Draft and edit a variety of materials intended for stakeholder audience including blog posts, visual aids, promotional materials, educational/training material, and more.
• Support podcast production/publishing and educational video production by assisting with writing and editing scripts, recording/filming, and editing audio and raw footage files.
• Perform clerical and administrative support tasks, including creation, typing, and editing of program correspondence, PowerPoints, project handouts, reports, and other project deliverables.
• Analyze and solve problems independently. Perform tasks with minimal supervision. Work both independently and as part of a small team.
• Perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

Enrolled in a degree seeking program at UNM, Enrolled at least half-time (6 hours) at UNM for fall and spring semesters (Audit hours do not count), and if Work Study, you must meet Satisfactory Academic Progress.

• Pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in journalism, environmental science, water resources, geography, biology, or related field.
• Experience with MailChimp, Constant Contact, or similar programs.
• Experience with WordPress/Divi Builder for webpage design.
• Experience with the Office Suite including Word, PowerPoint, and Teams and Adobe Creative Cloud including Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition, and Premiere.
• Experience with social media manager software such as Buffer or Hootsuite.
• Experience with or willingness to learn Smartsheet, Canva, SharePoint, or similar programs.
• Experience working with water or wastewater utilities, tribal entities, state environment departments, and/or the Environmental Protection Agency
• Proficiency in an additional language a plus.

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