Digital Content Specialist

Department Summary

Educational and Community Supports (ECS), a research unit within the University of Oregon’s College of Education, turns peer-reviewed research into real-world solutions. We are a leader in the data-based decision-making space and have pioneered solutions that enable educators to use student behavioral data when implementing real-time solutions in schools all over the United States, U.S. territories, and over 10 countries worldwide. Development at ECS blends cutting-edge research with a well-established and trusted educational service mission, sophisticated software and database architectures, and development tools. We offer a flexible, supportive, family-friendly work environment in a stimulating academic setting.

At ECS, we value the contribution diversity brings to our work and culture. Understanding and learning from our differences gives us unique opportunities to improve our products and services.

Position Summary

Reporting to the Director of Training and Communications, the Digital Content Specialist manages the day-to-day web and social media content for Educational and Community Supports (ECS) to meet departmental goals and user needs. This position develops, writes, edits, and publishes content to promote awareness of ECS brands, PBISApps and the Center on PBIS, and their products. The Digital Content Specialist represents ECS across multiple public-facing platforms, ensuring consistent, engaging, and accessible brand storytelling.

The Digital Content Specialist creates, implements, and evaluates content performance across ECS brands. This includes planning and managing web content and social media calendars, overseeing the development of visual assets (graphics and video), and collaborating with communications, training, and support teams and other ECS staff and faculty to coordinate web-based and social media material with other marketing efforts and identify areas of strategic opportunity for content.

This position exercises independent judgment and demonstrates a thorough understanding of department products as well as brand, grammar, and accessibility standards. Decisions made in this role directly shape public perception of PBISApps and the Center on PBIS.

Success in this role requires proficiency with digital content systems and tools, combining technical ability with design sensibility to manage complex information and produce high-quality, user-centered content.

Minimum Requirements

• Three years’ experience in gathering information, writing/producing materials, presenting information to the public and public relations. One year of this experience must have included responsibility for press releases and interaction with the news media.*
• A bachelor’s degree in journalism, communication, or a closely related field may substitute for up to two years of the general experience.

*Responsibility for press releases and interaction with the news media can include equivalent experience, such as writing and publishing announcements for web or social media platforms, developing public-facing content for organizational campaigns, or managing digital communications that inform or engage external audiences.