Creative Specialist Job Description
Creative specialist
provides a constant stream of visual content for social media channels that engage members and the public in achieving stated advocacy goals, including photos, videos, graphics, infographics, and data visualization for the purpose of driving advocacy actions. Provides MS Office and Adobe Creative Suite support where required and assist the team in ensuring all documents are of high quality and checked for accuracy.
Creative Specialist Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Liaise with and facilitate projects between agencies and vendors to create advocacy content
Effectively communicate and promote Creative Services' goals and metrics across several cross-functional teams to innovate on merch media, artwork usage, functionality, and workflows
Review, prioritize, and track digital assets from partner submission to the delivery of the content to the customer
Build and strengthen relationships with studios and content providers
Display courage in making decisions or voicing opinions, even if unpopular
Aggregate and review metrics to strengthen and improve yourself and the team
Consistently strive to review the current operational workflow and identify efficiencies
Review, prioritize, and track digital assets
Assist with digital asset management and archiving including transferring, renaming, attaching metadata, adjusting, backing up and uploading
Assist with downloading, formatting and distributing EPK, clips and video footage
Creative Specialist Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Creative Specialist
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CCLS, NCIDQ, HQ, EMEA, PMP
Education for Creative Specialist
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the creative specialist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Marketing, Graphic Design, Communications, Education, Advertising, Design, Business, Journalism, Communication, Project Management
Skills for Creative Specialist
Desired skills for creative specialist include:
Advertising landscape
Agencies
Workflows
Photoshop
Adobe Creative Suite
After Effects
Cinema 4D desirable
Illustrator
Keynote
Premiere
Desired experience for creative specialist includes:
You genuinely enjoy being challenged by both creative and operationally oriented projects
You're a natural communicator who understands that true communication has as much to do with listening as it does with talking
Your comfortable efficiently leading a team, setting long and short term strategic goals, and effectively building the skills of those you manage
You understand that hitting tight deadlines successfully is a result of strategic planning and excellent execution
5+ years of experience dealing with digital assets and effectively managing partner relationships, preferably within the entertainment industry
3+ years of experience building, managing, and evolving an operational and/or creative team
Creative Specialist Examples
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Creative Specialist Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of creative specialist. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for creative specialist
- Develop and manage video content and the dissemination of that content through various social media platforms
- Ensure messaging and content are consistent with and integrated into campaign approved internal/external messaging
- Use available metrics and social media channels to test content to identify most engaging and relevant content for achieving campaign goals
- Monitor performance of digital marketing campaigns and website usage, setting KPIs, reporting on performance and using data to inform subsequent activities
- Keep up with visual changes and trends in social media platforms
- Generate original campaign artwork upon request including modifying existing content for appropriate use in digital channels (e.g., email, Facebook and YouTube)
- Build and strengthen content partner relationships in order to drive new standards, improve delivery quality, and increase workflow efficiency
- Asset management and artwork curation to ensure best title representation across our supported territories
- Identify ways to improve yourself, the team, content partner deliveries, and cross-functional integration
Qualifications for creative specialist
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to handle multiple projects and confidential information and meet deadlines with attention to detail and accuracy
- The support and implement of all creative communications for the brand and Visual Merchandising
- The support and co-ordinate of creative concepts for all creative communications
- The coordination of photo shoots
- Concept development & execution
- The co-ordination and organisation of Creative Reviews
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of creative specialist. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for creative specialist
- Coordinates or participates in all phases of the project cycle, including planning, design, development, testing, implementation, documentation, training and closure
- Tracks progress towards achievement of project goals
- Enter projects into our Creative Workflow Tool (CWT)
- Traffic all changes to On-Air that come in from Programming, Promotion Scheduling, and Post Production including, updating traffic systems, CWT, IBMS and Preview Fulfillment
- Communicate to Producers updates on projects, verify production grid and campaign plan information, confirm due dates with Programming and Quality Control (QC) on projects in CWT and IBMS, to make sure everything has been entered correctly
- Liaison between On-Air and Programming partners for On-Air work
- Negotiate On-Air due dates with Programming to adjust edit schedules
- Work with the Affiliate and .com teams, providing credit restrictions to the Producer and pulling Associated Title reports for Legal
- Export and track schedules in Preview Fulfillment to determine which assets need packaging
- Work with Program Operations on material issues and assign these assets to a Producer
Qualifications for creative specialist
- Proficient in Word, Excel, Lotus Notes and Adobe Acrobat (PDF files)
- Candidate should have excellent clerical and communication skills, both verbal and written
- Thrives in faced-paced business environment
- Must have 1-2 years' experience working on an advocacy or political campaign
- Graphic design skills to create artwork for social media channels
- Strong proficiency in Mac and PC platforms for file manipulation (Microsoft Office Suite)
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of creative specialist. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for creative specialist
- Keep CWT and IBMS databases clean and up to date
- Effectively communicates relevant project information to superiors/provides information by answering questions and requests
- Execute the design and production of key marketing and brand vehicles for our financial advisor channels, and their clients
- Prioritize individual creative tasks and deliver final product on-brand and on-time
- Develop and maintain design templates to enhance product consistency and workflow efficiency
- Design and formatting of brochures, event promotion, booklets, signage, and other marketing material, adhering to Wealth brand standards
- Design and formatting of charts, graphs, tables and infographics
- Formatting of white papers and reports
- Image research, selection and acquisition
- Develop and maintain library of creative assets including stock imagery, videos and info graphics
Qualifications for creative specialist
- Must be able to maintain accuracy and attention to detail with high volume tasks
- A portfolio that illustrates digital graphic design work and writing samples will be required
- Photography and video creation/editing experience
- Must understand (and be an active participant on) all things social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram)
- Excellent project management and organizational skills, including the proven ability to handle multiple complex projects simultaneously with multiple audiences
- Minimum 3 years of experience cultivating and improving external partner and cross-functional relationships, preferably in an entertainment or technology related environment
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Our company is looking to fill the role of creative specialist. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for creative specialist
- Trains, supports, and orients University faculty, staff, graduate teaching assistants and students to Adobe Creative Cloud through tutorials, one-on-one, group, or workshop instruction
- Design and develop creative collateral for multi-channel campaigns (print, web, email, display ads.) collateral for daily business needs (brochures, flyers, ads, signage, eBooks, etc)
- Assist in development of creative assets for websites and landing pages, the updating of existing content
- Create impactful, engaging, creative and effective visual merchandising executions
- Partake in the creative development and production of semi-permanent / permanent promotional in-store merchandising elements
- Evolve and help support an internal elevated window program spanning multiple locations nationally
- Work with other merchandising specialists within the team in the production and support of planograms for all branded retail sites as required
- Project manage merchandising programs including the development and management of project schedules to ensure successful executions
- Complete presentations to communicate intended creative direction as required
- Create and provide timely direction to stores prior to installation of elevated merchandising initiatives manage feedback post execution
Qualifications for creative specialist
- Ability to effectively serve in a translator capacity for Japanese and English communications preferred
- Research, design and implement new innovative systems and applications to support both end users and the department members
- Maintain existing back-end systems including health monitoring, security patching and updating
- Workstation and OS update deployment configuration planning and evaluation
- Strong communication and documentation skillsEffective and collaborative team member with excellent communication skills
- Provide desktop (user) support to the Design and Post Production team and other Apple OS-based users where necessary
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a creative specialist. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for creative specialist
- Work with store managers and sales reps to identify and resolve merchandising issues in store as needed
- Provide graphic support for additional sales activities including trade shows, conferences, displays, meetings, award submissions, and coordinate production with internal and external service providers
- Provide back-end production support for client submittals including printing, binding, packaging, labeling, shipping
- Manage the workflow and successful execution of all projects requiring Creative Services support, ensuring projects stay on time and on budget from inception to implementation
- Collaborate and consult with account services teams to understand project priorities and deadlines
- Open and track all Creative Services projects using a web-based project management tool
- Schedule and lead creative kickoff meetings, including completing creative brief
- Work closely with the Creative Services manager to prioritize inbound and ongoing projects
- Develop and track all project schedules for successful and timely completion
- Route all projects for review and approval
Qualifications for creative specialist
- Knowledge and experience working in a Video Production/Broadcast Television environment
- Mac OS X in an enterprise (directory based) environment
- Mac OS X Server operation and configuration including Wiki, iCal
- Strong Windows OS skills
- Strong knowledge of command line administration and scripting including Bash and Python scripting
- JAMF Casper Suite (Apple inventory and profile management system)