Le Jardin Academy, located in Kailua, HI is a full continuum International Baccalaureate World School offering students a world-class education from pre-kindergarten to grade 12. Founded in 1961, Le Jardin Academy now serves students across two campuses. Its graduates attend the best universities across the world and are equipped to positively impact their world. Our mission is to cultivate a community of learners who embrace hana pono to positively impact the world. As a school community, we value individuality, excellence, innovation, peace and relationships.

Primary Responsibility: 

The Communications Specialist generates social media content for the school’s digital platforms, produces video and photography to support the School’s messaging, and engages in design for print, digital and web collateral and platforms. As a content curator and creator, this position requires copywriting and editing abilities, creative and reliable project management, story-mining and research. The Communications Support Specialist reports directly to the Director of Communications and collaborates closely with the Advancement and Admissions Teams.

Essential Duties: 

• Support the director with design, production, and placement of artwork (marketing materials) to ensure accuracy to specifications and timely submission to appropriate media sources. Maintain artwork status spreadsheet based on scheduled media and events. Coordinate artwork approval process. Ensure that media is placed as scheduled.
• Generate, update, and manage content for the School’s website and related pages to ensure a functional, dynamic, and up-to-date website at all times. Create banners, new pages, and calendars as directed. Report web-related issues promptly to make sure they are resolved in a timely manner. Assist director with photo and content selection and page layout. Prepare analyses from an online dashboard for use during department meetings.
• Generate social media content for the school’s Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn platforms and marketing efforts in alignment with the school’s strategic priorities and key messages by audience. Assists with technical and/or content issues and ensure brand alignment in all postings. Use analytics to generate monthly reports.
• Coordinate and collaborate with educational and operational teams to photograph, video, and capture the many stories of the good work happening across campus in a manner consistent with the priorities of the communications plan.
• Coordinate ordering, shipping and billing for printed marketing materials, flags/banners, displays, brochures etc. within budget and schedules for completion.
• Draft copy and select images for collateral, testimonials, social media, newsletters, and website copy that highlight the scope and impact of LJA’s work within the school and broader community. Prepare documents for review, editing and distribution in programs and platforms such as Canva, Google Slides, Adobe Creative Suite programs, Finalsite, Almabase, and others.
• Write and digitally distribute clear internal and external communications as directed, including but not limited to newsletters and email announcements.
• Ensure all work is consistent with the school’s style guide including colors, fonts, and branding standards.
• Support the director in compiling analytics to efficacy of web, social, marketing and other communications. 
• Support Advancement and Admissions special projects and school events as requested.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree required in related field
• Experience with Google Tools 
• Experience with utilizing and managing social media accounts
• Demonstrated experience with web and digital communications platforms
• Experience with multimedia storytelling, messaging, content creation, and production
• Experience with graphic design, photography, and video editing programs (Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, Final Cut Pro, iMovie and/or similar design and editing programs preferred) 
• Photography and videography experience preferred
• Interest in and understanding of education broadly and independent schools specifically, previous school experience preferred
• Experience managing social media profiles on behalf of an organization, including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube and other channels preferred
• Experience with Finalsite, Thankview, and survey tools preferred

Skills: 

• Demonstrated planning, project management, and organizational skills
• Excellent, passionate, and collaborative institutional storyteller
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and demonstrated soft skills
• Excellent collaboration and relationship-building skills, ability to build trust 
• Sound judgment and commitment to confidentiality
• Excellent follow through and ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks