What are the responsibilities and job description for the MEDIA COORDINATOR - Summer Camp 2025 position at Southern District YMCA- Camp Lincoln Inc?
POSITION SUMMARY:
This is a seasonal role from June - August and supports the work of the Y, a leading nonprofit, charitable organization committed to strengthening community through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. The role of the Media Coordinator is to ensure daily newsletter, video content, and social media messages are clear, compelling, and in a cohesive single voice that is tied to the organization’s goals, objectives, and national brand platform.
Requirements:
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Support the Office Manager by managing daily newsletters to families, capturing quality photos, and posting engaging social media posts daily.
- Provide excellent customer service to all campers and families both in person and over phone and e-mail communications.
- Monitor website and social media traffic using analytics, making content adjustments as needed.
- Follow a comprehensive digital media strategy using video content, website, social media, e-newsletters, online advertising, and other communications tools to integrate departmental and association-level initiatives and goals for fundraising and marketing.
- Coordinate historical documents such as slideshow for end of the summer dinner and annual yearbook celebrating the summer.
- Provide ongoing assessment, development, and direction of Camp Lincoln’s internet capabilities to maximize the user experience, keeping it fresh and compelling.
- Create and post social media content daily in alignment with organizational campaigns and marketing/communications initiatives.
- Grow Camp Lincoln's presence across all social media platforms.
- Adhere to policies related to boundaries with campers.
- Attend required abuse risk management training.
- Adhere to procedures related to managing high-risk activities and supervising campers.
- Report suspicious or inappropriate behaviors and policy violations.
- Follow mandated abuse reporting requirements.
- Other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong working knowledge of computers and all common programs such as Word and Excel.
- Ability to effectively delegate responsibilities to others and support them in their endeavors as necessary.
- Ability to handle sensitive, confidential information.
- Energetic and positive personality.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Ability to stay calm in stressful situations.
- Ability to respond to critical incidents and act swiftly in emergency situations.
- Must be able to complete YMCA required training as scheduled by management.
- Must maintain updated certifications of the job (CPR and First Aid/AED).
- Must successfully clear FBI and state criminal background checks.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Ability to sit, stand or walk for long periods of time
- Ability to lift up to 50lbs.
- Ability to push, pull, bend and kneel regularly.
- Ability to communicate verbally (in-person and on phone) and in writing is essential.
- Visual and auditory ability to respond to critical situations and physical ability to act swiftly in an emergency.
- Ability to view and enter data on computer for long periods of time.
Southern District YMCA is an Equal Opportunities employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of SDYMCA to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or genetic information.
