Job Profile:
Student Worker III
Job Family:
Student Employee
Time Type:
Part time
Max Pay – Depends on experience:
$17.50 USD Hourly
Apply before Jan. 30, 2026 by 11:59 PM Arizona time.
Minimum Qualifications:
Duties are technical and complex and involve a high degree of responsibility and judgment. May supervise or direct activities of other student employees. A significant amount of specialized training or experience is required.
Job Description:
Pay Rate: $17.50 per hour
Job Description: The Institute of Human Origins is seeking a creative, organized and self-motivated Digital Marketing Assistant to help elevate research stories through digital marketing platforms, including social media, email and web. This part-time, in-person position will report to the communications manager and will work closely to create, manage and update department digital platforms. Duties involve a high degree of responsibility, judgment and independent work. Duties also include general office support. Students with a degree towards journalism, public relations, marketing or similar is preferred.
Essential Duties:
- Planning, drafting, and scheduling social media on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Bluesky.
- Assist with drafting, building, and testing email communications.
- Pulling data and recording social media and email analytics.
- Collecting, categorizing, and tracking digital communications.
- Assisting with graphic design and content creation.
- Adhere to all ASU and The College brand standards.
- Help produce short videos for social media channels and YouTube.
- Identify and assist with updating outdated webpages, broken links, accessibility issues, and other web projects as assigned.
- Help with other marketing and communications-related tasks (web, social media, graphic design, etc.) as assigned.
- Create graphics and visuals using tools such as Adobe Suite and Canva.
- Expected to be responsive, engaged in work, resourceful, flexible, and respectful of others.
Desired Qualifications:
- Strong communication, editing, and critical thinking skills. Strong grammar skills. Must be able to communicate well and effectively.
- Up to date with current digital marketing and social media trends.
- Knowledge of marketing goals and processes, including social media, email marketing, and web content development.
- Familiarity with university graphic and communication guidelines and writing in AP style.
- Ability to work collaboratively to translate written and verbal requests into compelling content.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented with the ability to multitask and complete assigned projects in a thorough and timely manner.
- Ability to work independently.
- Availability to work at least 15 hours per week.
- Proficient in Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Forms).
Working Environment:
- Activities are performed in an environmentally controlled office setting, subject to extended periods of sitting, keyboarding, and computer use.
- Required to stand for varying lengths of time and walk moderate distances to perform work.
- Constantly detects and operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
- Ability to effectively communicate and exchange accurate information to perform essential duties.
- Acuity and manual dexterity are associated with daily use of a desktop computer, physical effort, and light lifting.
- Student workers are expected to work on-site for a minimum of 15 hours and up to 20 hours each week. There may be an opportunity for some remote work.
- This position may require occasional attendance at IHO-related events.
Department Statement:
The Institute of Human Origins is at the forefront of paradigm-shifting discoveries and novel approaches to pressing and newly emerging scientific questions about human existence over deep time.
Since 1981, scientists at the institute, housed in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, have been conducting innovative research in paleoanthropology, genetics, and human and nonhuman primate cultural evolution.
Driving Requirement:
Driving is not required for this position.
Location:
Campus: Tempe
Funding:
No Federal Funding
Instructions to Apply:
Current Employees and Students should apply directly within Workday using the Jobs Hub. Use this link and log in using SSO:
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Please include all employment information in month/year format (e.g., 6/88 to 8/94), job title, job duties and name of employer for each position. Resume should clearly illustrate how prior knowledge and experience meets the Minimum and Desired qualifications of this position. NOTE: GA and Intern positions are counted as .5 for job experience (ie. 1 year equals 6 months experience equivalency). Only electronic applications are accepted for this position.
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Apply before Jan. 30, 2026 by 11:59 PM Arizona time.
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