Job Details
- Job Title: Recruitment Social Media Assistant (OPS)
- Location: Tallahassee, FL
- Regular/Temporary: Temporary
- Full/Part Time: Part-Time
- Job ID: 62709
- Department: Office of Human Resources - Talent Acquisition
Responsibilities
About the Role
We’re looking for a creative, organized Recruitment Social Media Assistant to help elevate our LinkedIn presence, bring our employer brand to life, and support our recruitment communications across channels. You’ll create and schedule content, engage with our audience, track results, and support our newsletter and website updates so more people can Love What YOU DO at FSU.
Enjoy hands-on learning, a supportive team, and real impact on how job seekers discover and experience careers at FSU.
What You’ll Do
LinkedIn Ownership
- Plan, draft, and schedule LinkedIn posts that highlight people, roles, career paths, events, and key hiring moments.
- Maintain a weekly content calendar aligned to recruiting priorities, campaigns, and seasonality.
- Engage in comments and direct messages with timely, professional responses and simple escalation paths.
- Source stories and visuals across campus partners; obtain approvals and ensure brand alignment.
- Track performance weekly and monthly. Recommend optimizations to improve reach, engagement, and applicant flow.
Employer Brand Activation
- Help translate our employer brand pillars into everyday content ideas, spotlights, and visuals.
- Assist with light photo/video capture, basic editing, and asset organization.
- Maintain a shareable content library and simple style guardrails for consistency.
Newsletter Support
- Partner on a monthly recruiting newsletter: outline, draft, gather wins, events, jobs-to-watch, and team features.
- Build and format the newsletter in the approved platform. Test links and deliverability.
- Monitor performance metrics and suggest subject lines and formats that improve opens and clicks.
Website Updates
- Post and update recruiting-focused web content, including team profiles, role spotlights, and candidate resources.
- Ensure pages are current, link correctly, and reflect the most relevant opportunities.
- Coordinate with web partners on simple UX improvements and A/B tests when appropriate.
Analytics and Operations
- Own a simple dashboard for channel health: followers, impressions, engagement rates, top posts, click-throughs, and traffic to key jobs.
- Capture campaign performance summaries and insights for monthly reporting.
- Document playbooks, templates, posting checklists, and routing/approvals to keep operations smooth.
Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalency and 1 year of experience.
- Strong writing skills with a crisp, friendly tone and attention to detail.
- Comfort creating social content and working within a content calendar.
- Basic visual editing skills (Canva, Adobe Express, or similar).
- Ability to prioritize, follow a process, and meet deadlines with minimal handholding.
- Curiosity, professionalism, and willingness to learn new tools and workflows.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing a LinkedIn Page or creating content for a brand, student org, or campus initiative.
- Familiarity with simple analytics and reporting.
- Basic knowledge of website content updates (WordPress, Drupal, or similar CMS).
- Light photo/video capture and editing skills for short-form content.
Other Information
Success Looks Like
- A steady, on-brand LinkedIn drumbeat that increases reach and engagement month over month.
- Clear, timely responses to comments and messages that reflect our voice.
- A reliable monthly newsletter with strong open and click rates.
- Fresh, accurate, and helpful recruiting web content.
- Simple, useful dashboards and monthly insights that guide next steps.
Tools You’ll Use
- LinkedIn Page tools and scheduling software
- Canva or Adobe Express
- Basic CMS for website updates
- Microsoft 365 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), SharePoint
- Optional: Power BI or similar for dashboards
University Information
One of the nation's elite research universities, Florida State University preserves, expands, and disseminates knowledge in the sciences, technology, arts, humanities, and professions, while embracing a philosophy of learning strongly rooted in the traditions of the liberal arts and critical thinking. Founded in 1851, Florida State University is the oldest continuous site of higher education in Florida. FSU is a community steeped in tradition that fosters research and encourages creativity. At FSU, there’s the excitement of being part of a vibrant academic and professional community, surrounded by people whose ideas are shaping tomorrow’s news!
Learn more about our university and campuses.
How To Apply
If qualified and interested in a specific job opening as advertised, apply to Florida State University at https://jobs.fsu.edu. If you are a current FSU employee, apply via myFSU > Self Service.
Applicants are required to complete the online application with all applicable information. Applications must include all work history up to ten years, and education details even if attaching a resume.
The following materials are requested with your application and resume:
- 2–3 short content samples or links (a LinkedIn post, simple graphic, or link for short video)
- A brief note (5–7 sentences) on how you would grow our LinkedIn engagement in your first 60 days
Considerations
- This is an OPS/temporary job.
- Based on the duties, this position may require completion of a criminal history background check.
- Pay commensurate with experience.
- Part-time, up to 20 hours per week.
- Position may be extended based on operational needs.
- This position is being re-advertised. Previous applicants need not reapply.
Equal Employment Opportunity
FSU is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
Organization
Working at Florida State University
One of the nation's elite research universities, Florida State University — with the Carnegie Foundation's highest designation, Doctoral/Research University-Extensive — offers a distinctive academic environment built on its cherished values and unique heritage, welcoming campus on the oldest continuous site of higher education in Florida, championship athletics, and prime location in the heart of the state capital.
Combining traditional strength in the arts and humanities with recognized leadership in the sciences, Florida State University provides unmatched opportunities for students and faculty through challenging academics, cultural discovery and community interaction.
Underlying and supporting the educational experience at Florida State University is the development of new generations of citizen leaders, based on the concepts inscribed in our seal: Vires, Artes, Mores — Strength, Skill and Character.
Epitomized by recently named Rhodes Scholars Garrett Johnson and Myron Rolle — elite athletes and scholars committed to public service — and Joseph O'Shea — a campus and community leader as well as a top scholar — Florida State's 40,000 students are dedicated to academic excellence and providing leadership in our complex world.
Florida State University's 16 colleges offer more than 275 undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, professional and specialist degree programs, including medicine and law, covering a broad array of disciplines critical to society today. Each year the University awards over 2,000 graduate and professional degrees.
With its impressive breadth of leading graduate, professional and undergraduate programs, Florida State University is a demanding, intellectually stimulating, yet warm and caring environment for students and faculty. Recognized nationally for its commitment to diversity, Florida State University is a national leader in the number of doctorates awarded to African-American students and in the graduation rate of African-American undergraduates. Its College of Medicine and College of Law are ranked in the nation's Top 10 for Hispanic students.
Florida State University's arts programs — dance, film, music and theatre — rank among the finest in the world, offering an arts education comparable to leading conservatories. Its creative writing program is ranked among the nation's best and is home to the most consistently honored and published student body in the United States. Florida State is responsible for governance of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and associated arts programs, one of the largest museum/university complexes in the nation.
Other programs consistently included in the top public university list include physics, chemistry, political science, psychology, criminology, public administration, library science, information, human sciences, business and law.
At the Ph.D. level, interdisciplinary programs draw on notable research faculty strengths that transcend the traditional disciplines, including neuroscience, molecular biophysics, computational science, materials science and research at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory—home to the world's most powerful magnets.
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