"Digital Associate"

Job Summary

Barnard College seeks a proactive and detail-oriented Digital Associate to support the College's website operations and digital communications strategy. This role plays a key part in maintaining content and structure for the Barnard website and supporting digital needs across platforms.

The Digital Associate will help manage day-to-day content updates, ensure adherence to brand and accessibility standards, and assist with digital projects that advance the College's priorities. The ideal candidate is a fast learner with excellent editorial judgment, strong technical instincts, and the ability to work collaboratively across departments.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and update content on the Barnard website using the content management system (CMS)
• Review, format, and publish approved content submitted by department administrators
• Ensure that all updates meet brand, style, and accessibility standards
• Support with content clean-up, and ongoing improvements to site structure to streamline current digital assets
• Troubleshoot technical issues and escalate as needed
• Help document best practices and provide light training or guidance to departments submitting content
• Collaborate across the entire communications team to ensure consistency across digital platforms
• Assist with digital communications tasks, including social media as needed

Skills, Qualifications & Requirements

• 2-5 years of experience in digital communications, content management, or related field
• Experience working in a content management system
• Familiarity with web accessibility standards and SEO basics
• Strong writing, editing, and formatting skills
• Detail-oriented with excellent organizational habits
• Ability to manage multiple requests, timelines, and stakeholders
• Familiarity with vendor management
• Ability to work flexible hours; must be willing to work evenings and weekends as required.

This job is currently a hybrid position, but may require a presence in the office up to five times a week, including for team and full staff meetings and other times as directed by the supervisor.

Salary Range: $64,350 - $66,500 annually

Please include a writing sample with your application materials.