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Two openings for Graduate Assitantships
Two graduate assistantship postions that are a great fit for design students are hiring for FY 2013-2014. If you know need some work, apply online through PrattJobs.
Graduate Design Assistant
Job ID: 5100
Employer: Center for Career & Professional Development CCPD
Job Category: Graduate Assistantship Positions
Job Description:
The Center for Career and Professional Development (CCPD) is in search of a creative and detail-oriented Graduate Design Assistant to conceptualize, develop and design marketing and promotional materials under tight deadlines.
The Graduate Assistant:
- Design print and online advertisements and promotional materials, including static and animated ads, printed collateral and develop campaigns in both print and social media
- Helps to design, lay-out, and organize seasonal program and workshop support materials, departmental brochures, TV screen promotions
- Participates in the creation of Social Media Campaigns
- Designs and builds mobile landing pages and websites
Job Requirements:
- A Pratt Student in a Graduate Degree Program
- Prior design, advertising or promotions experience
- Written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills, strong attention to detail; able to turn around projects quickly and multitask
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator
- Willingness to amend designs in order to fit the needs of CCPD
- Knowledge of Adobe Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver and html coding would be a plus
- Ability to be flexible, friendly and able to work with a variety of CCPD staff members and Peer workers while juggling department priorities
Web Developer Graduate Assistantship
Job ID: 5031
Job Type: On-Campus Jobs
Employer: VP Student Services
Job Category: Office Assistant
Job Description:
- Under the supervision of the Director of Disability Resource Center successful candidate will perform the following technical functions.
- Perform maintenance work on the various DRC pages, including such things as updating text and links, removing or adding information, and rearranging basic information layout utilizing the content management system;
- Work with staff to develop a solution that meets their needs, including gaining a proper understanding of their request and timeline, and establishing realistic expectations of the completed project;
- Gather feedback from staff during the process and after the implementation of the changes.
Job Requirements:
- Enrolled in a degree-granting graduate program at Pratt and are in good standing.
- Programming skills to design, develop, and maintain Web pages in ASP.NET
- Proficient in ASP.NET C# or VB, HTML, SQL and CMS systems like Expression Engine, Wordpress, etc.
- Knowledge in database design
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Good organizational skills and attention to detail
- Experience with ASP, ColdFusion and browser compatibility issues helpful
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