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Title: Digital Media Manager

Position Type: Professional Tech Full time

College: Red Rocks Community College

Division: Office of the President

Department: Marketing and Communications

Campus: RRCC Lakewood Campus

Location: Lakewood

Salary Range: $73,242 to $80,566

Who We Are:

Red Rocks Community College exemplifies extraordinary. We are dedicated to our Vision and Mission, which promote student achievement, staff empowerment, and community engagement. We live our values: Learning, Collaboration, Community, Belonging, and Empowerment.

RRCC seeks applicants who understand and have first-hand experience working with diverse populations, which may include but are not limited to, historically marginalized populations such as people of color, LGBTQ+ community members, veterans, first generation graduates, and people with disabilities.

Job Summary:

Red Rocks Community College seeks a creative, strategic, and hands-on Digital Media Manager to help tell the College’s story across social media, video, photography, and digital platforms. This position plays a key role in building RRCC’s multimedia presence by producing engaging content that supports recruitment, student engagement, institutional communications, campus events, and community connection.

The Digital Media Manager oversees and supports the College’s social media, videography, photography, digital content, multimedia production, and related accessibility practices. This position plans, shoots, edits, organizes, and publishes multimedia content for social media, web, recruitment, campaigns, internal communications, and institutional storytelling. The role also maintains content calendars, develops reusable templates and workflows, manages visual asset libraries, tracks engagement and performance metrics, and recommends content improvements based on audience needs, platform trends, and College priorities.

This position serves as a subject matter expert within areas of oversight and provides consultation to college employees and stakeholders on content needs, campaign planning, visual storytelling, platform expectations, brand alignment, and accessible multimedia practices. The Digital Media Manager helps ensure multimedia content reflects RRCC’s brand standards, communication protocols, and current accessibility expectations, including captioning, alt text, plain-language copy, and other accessible digital content practices. The role may also provide leadership, work direction, training, coordination, or supervision to hourly employees, student hourly employees, vendors, contractors, or other project-based contributors supporting multimedia and digital content work.

This position typically works Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; however, this position regularly requires participation in campus events and activities outside of standard business hours, including evenings and occasional weekends, to support campus events, social media coverage, photography, videography, multimedia production, campaign needs, and other College communication priorities. A flexible work schedule will be utilized to accommodate these operational needs.

A successful candidate brings strong multimedia storytelling skills, excels at managing competing priorities, and is at ease with the following:

• Creating engaging video, photography, social media, and digital content that supports brand, recruitment, engagement, and institutional storytelling goals.
• Managing content calendars, production workflows, asset libraries, accessibility practices, and platform-specific content needs with strong organization and attention to detail.
• Consulting with employees and stakeholders, translating ideas into effective digital content, and providing recommendations that support campaign goals, audience engagement, brand consistency, and accessible communication.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong visual storytelling instincts and the ability to translate strategic direction into compelling multimedia content.
• Working knowledge of accessible design principles and current accessibility law and standards.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage concurrent productions and platform calendars.
• Excellent written communication, particularly for social media platforms and captions.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse subjects, audiences, and colleagues. Cultural humility and a student-centered orientation.
• Comfort working independently within a strategic framework set by the Director. Adaptability to fast-changing digital platforms and content formats.
• Commitment to inclusive and representative content across all multimedia output.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in multimedia, communications, journalism, marketing, digital media, or related field; OR an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• Two years of professional experience producing video and photography for an organization, business, agency, or institution.
• Demonstrated proficiency with video editing software (Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or equivalent).
• Demonstrated proficiency with photo editing software (Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, or equivalent).
• Demonstrated experience managing organizational social media accounts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in multimedia, communications, marketing, journalism, or related field.
• Experience in higher education marketing, particularly at a community college or open-access institution.
• Familiarity with social media management platforms (Hootsuite, Sprout Social, Later, or similar).
• Experience producing accessible video content, including captions and audio descriptions.
• Working knowledge of WCAG 2.1 Level AA standards.
• Familiarity with the Adobe Creative Cloud suite end-to-end.
• Experience with motion graphics or animation.
• Portfolio demonstrating storytelling sensibility across multiple multimedia formats.

Physical & Cognitive Demands

The following are some of the physical and cognitive demands commonly associated with this position.

• Occasionally moves, positions, transports, sets up, and takes down standard office, event, and production materials, including cameras, lighting, audio equipment, tripods, signage, and related items weighing up to 30 lbs.
• This position is primarily office-based, with regular work in campus event and field production environments. The role routinely uses computers, standard office equipment, cameras, lighting and audio equipment, editing software, digital asset management systems, social media platforms, and related tools, and may require periods of standing, walking, bending, positioning equipment, moving between event spaces, and providing on-site multimedia support.
• The person in this position regularly communicates with students, employees, vendors, community partners, and other internal and external constituents and must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.
• Cognitive demands include comparing, copying, computing, compiling, analyzing, coordinating, synthesizing, negotiating, communicating, instructing, troubleshooting, monitoring live event and social media needs, applying accessibility standards, managing multiple deadlines, exercising sound judgment, and using interpersonal skills.
• May require occasional evening and weekend hours, work at both campuses, local travel between campuses, and travel to community locations for assigned event, recruitment, photo, video, or storytelling needs.

Starting Salary

Starting salary range for this position is $73,242 to $80,566 annually, commensurate with education and experience. This is a full-time, FLSA-exempt position. This position has been exempted from the State Classified System.

To Apply

All applicants must submit:

1. Resume
2. Detailed letter of interest (cover letter) addressing the job announcement
3. Portfolio or work samples demonstrating relevant social media, videography, photography, digital content, multimedia production, or related creative work

Candidates will be evaluated based on their qualifications as related to the duties and responsibilities of the position. Candidates may redact any personally identifiable information on their materials including but are not limited to age, date of birth, and dates of attendance and date of graduation for educational institutions. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

If you have questions regarding this position, please contact us at HR@rrcc.edu.

Benefits

At RRCC, we value and uphold a commitment to a workplace that focuses on employees. In addition to rewarding and meaningful work, we offer a comprehensive selection of benefits to support our employees, including:

• Strong, flexible retirement benefits including Colorado PERA’s Defined Benefit Plan or Defined Contribution Plan. RRCC contributes 21.61% of your salary on your behalf. Supplemental retirement plans including 401(k), 403(b) and 457 plans are also available.
• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and flexible savings benefits.
• Employee assistance services such as counseling, professional coaching, financial planning, and more, are available to you and members of your household at no cost through the Colorado State Employee Assistance Program (C-SEAP).
• Generous paid time off benefits including up to 15 hours of annual leave and 10 hours sick leave per month, 10 paid holidays per year, and up to 18 hours for academic and volunteer activities.
• Tuition assistance for employees and their eligible dependents at any community college within the Colorado Community College System or CCCOnline.
• State employees are eligible to participate in BenefitHub which offers discounts for retailers and services and other benefits resources.
• Employees may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. Additional information about this program can be found on the Colorado Division of Human Resources website.

Notice to all Applicants

• Final candidate will be subject to successful completion of a background check, and, if applicable, a motor vehicle record review.
• Former employees of the Colorado Community College System, or one of its 13 colleges, who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination, must disclose this information in their application material.
• Final candidates are required to submit unofficial transcripts for non-instructional positions and official transcripts for instructional positions to Human Resources within thirty (30) days of hire.
• Direct deposit of payroll is a condition of employment.
• Red Rocks Community College participates in E-Verify.
• Red Rocks Community College is a tobacco and smoke-free campus.
• All RRCC employees, except student employees, contribute to Colorado PERA at a fixed percentage of their earnings and do not contribute to Social Security.
• Finalist must be willing to make Colorado their primary workplace.

RRCC/CCCS is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Red Rocks Community College and Colorado Community College System believes when all human qualities are regarded with dignity and respect and when everyone has access to the individualized support they need, all will have the opportunity to thrive. In all aspects of the employment process, decisions are made based on merit, competence, performance and business need without regard to sex, gender, race, color, age, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, familial status, veteran or military status, pregnancy status, marital status, religion, genetic information, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our Accommodations and Non-Discrimination policies, plus other helpful information, can be found publicly at https://www.rrcc.edu/disclaimers-and-legal-notices.

We also believe in going further. At RRCC we have a focus on equity and belonging. We strive to create a community in which everyone feels respected and valued for their unique talents and contributions, and where people from all backgrounds are able to achieve their goals. Red Rocks Community College acknowledges that inclusion and equity are multifaceted and complex concepts, and that our efforts in these areas will require innovation, intention, and an institutional commitment to these principles, across our entire college community.
Red Rocks Community College is an emerging Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). As we move toward full HSI status, we are focused on servingness and are committed to creating a learning environment where equity is expected and our Latinx students thrive.
For information regarding Red Rocks Community College Security, including Clery Act/Crime Statistics for the campuses and surrounding area, please see the https://www.rrcc.edu/campus-police.