POSITION TITLE:
Marketing and Communications Coordinator (Full Time, Non-Exempt)
Pay Rate: $18 per hour
ROLE:
The Marketing and Communications Coordinator supports the Director of Marketing and Communications in the execution of marketing, design, social media, and communications efforts. This role is responsible for day-to-day production needs, digital updates, social media content support, and maintaining clear, consistent communication across platforms. The position requires strong attention to detail, flexibility, creativity, and a collaborative approach to supporting a wide range of marketing initiatives, campaigns, events, and institutional communications. Starting rate is $18 per hour.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Create, adapt, resize, and maintain graphic assets for marketing, communications, exhibitions, programs, events, and advertising across print, web, email, social media, signage, and digital platforms.
- Prepare and manage creative files for print and digital production, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and adherence to institutional branding, design standards, approved messaging, and image rights protocols.
- Update and maintain website content, online listings, calendars, event and exhibition information, images, and other digital materials to ensure timely, accurate, and consistent communication.
- Support social media content development and execution by creating graphics and content concepts, drafting captions, scheduling and publishing posts, maintaining content calendars, monitoring engagement, organizing photo and video assets, and tracking performance through reporting and analytics.
- Assist with the development, production, distribution, and proofreading of marketing, communications, press, promotional, and institutional materials.
- Maintain organized communication systems, image libraries, media assets, project files, and production workflows to support campaigns, exhibitions, programs, events, and institutional communications.
- Provide administrative and project support, including scheduling, correspondence, invoice processing, and assistance with special projects and evolving departmental priorities.
- Support the Director of Marketing and Communications and perform other duties as assigned.
These examples are not intended to be all-inclusive. Other duties may be assigned as needed.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education/Certification: High School diploma required. Associates degree preferred.
Required Knowledge: Proficiency in Adobe Create Suite, including InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator; experience preparing files for print and digital use, experience with website CMS platforms, familiarity with social media platforms, scheduling tools and digital communication tools.
Experience Required: Minimum two years’ experience with social media marketing and communications. Adaptable to working with diverse communication models, digital technologies, and analytical tools.
Skills/Abilities: Strong eye for design, layout, typography and visual consistency, strong attention to detail, organization and time management, ability to manage multiple tasks and adapt to shifting priorities, strong communication skills and a collaborative working style, interest in arts, culture, museums, nonprofit communications or public engagement preferred.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES AND REQUIREMENTS OF THIS POSITION
Talking: Ability to speak effectively and communicate clearly.
Average Hearing: Ability to hear average conversations at a standard level in a museum environment around other employees and visitors
Repetitive Motion: The employee will frequently type on a keyboard continuously throughout the day.
Finger Dexterity: The employee is regularly required to use hands to type on a keyboard and maneuver a mouse.
Average Vision: Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust the focus with 20/20 vision (with or without the assistance of eyeglasses/contacts)
Physical Strength: The position involves standard light duties.
WORKING CONDITIONS
General professional indoor museum environment with climate control and adequate lighting. Occasional hours worked during evenings and weekends in order to meet organizational needs and deadlines.
MENTAL ACTIVITIES AND REQUIREMENTS OF THIS POSITION
REASONING ABILITY: Ability to deal with a variety of variables under only limited standardization
LANGUAGE ABILITY: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret written materials and communications. Ability to communicate clearly.
INTENT AND FUNCTION OF JOB DESCRIPTIONS
Job descriptions assist organizations in ensuring that the hiring process is fairly administered and that qualified employees are selected. They are also essential to an effective appraisal system and related promotion, transfer, layoff, and termination decisions. Well-constructed job descriptions are an integral part of any effective compensation system.
All descriptions have been reviewed to ensure that only essential functions and basic duties have been included. Peripheral tasks, only incidentally related to each position, have been excluded. Requirements, skills, and abilities included have been determined to be the minimal standards required to successfully perform the positions. In no instance, however, should the duties, responsibilities, and requirements delineated be interpreted as all-inclusive. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate.
In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is possible that requirements may be modified to reasonably accommodate disabled individuals. However, no accommodations will be made which may pose serious health or safety risks to the employee or others or which impose undue hardships on the organization.
Job descriptions are not intended as and do not create employment contracts. The organization maintains its status as an at-will employer. Employees can be terminated for any reason not prohibited by law.
ABOUT US
The Wichita Art Museum opened in 1935 and is home to the Roland P. Murdock Collection, one of the premier collections of American art. With a nationally distinguished collection, the museum is a public/private partnership, owned by the City of Wichita and managed by the Wichita Art Museum, Inc. The Wichita Art Museum connects people, ideas, and art through remarkable experiences.
