Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Assist your client in establishing and maintaining good communication with intended audiences
- Plan, curate, and distribute internal and external newsletters to improve communication with clients, raise awareness of related issues and concerns on campus, and strengthen client organization
A successful Communication Specialist will gain knowledge and experience with:
- Writing technical documentation for non-technical audiences
- Tools for electronic newsletter creation and distribution
- Preparing and reporting on newsletter analytics
- Collaboration skills needed for working with diverse and physically distributed teams
Requirements/Qualifications
Qualifications: LAS student with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Must be independent and self-motivated but also have the ability to work with various people on a variety of tasks.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Work in collaboration with client to produce a variety of media products for broadcast on social media, webpages, and other platforms
- Plan and direct video creation
- Operate and set up video cameras and sound equipment
- Research trends and makes recommendations to client about content
- Perform post-production tasks involving reviewing footage, making editorial decisions, video captioning, audio adjustments, visual adjustments, compressing and editing.
A Successful Digital Content Specialist will gain knowledge and experience with:
- Editing and production methods
- Meeting with clients and developing a plan of action
- Documenting the process/requirements
- Explaining technical concepts to a non-technical audience
Qualifications: LAS student with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Strong research skills and critical/analytical thinking ability. Must be independent and self‐motivated but also have the ability to work with various people on a variety of tasks.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Evaluate existing content for accuracy and applicability of goals
- Identify gaps and shortcomings in existing content
- Write/rewrite documentation to meet goals and audience
- Properly tag materials with keywords in the tool
- Determine goals, importance, and audience of documentation
- Propose organizational structure to meet desired goals
- Teach the clients how to leverage the system
- Inventory and evaluate creating documentation for a variety of applications maintained by the team
- Final documentation will be organized, tagged, and made available in the university knowledge base system
A successful Documentation Specialist will gain knowledge and experience with:
- Writing technical documentation for non-technical audiences
- Reviewing and analyzing metrics captured by the knowledge base tool
- Techniques for publishing different content on websites
- Communication skills required for working with technical staff and their non-technical users
Requirements/Qualifications
LAS student with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Strong research skills and critical/analytical thinking ability. Must be independent and self‐motivated but also have the ability to work with various people on a variety of tasks.
Educational Technology includes any communication tool that utilizes technology application to deliver text, audio, images, or animation. The learning may be synchronous and asynchronous; linear or collaborative.
An educational technologist or e-Learning expert works in academic settings providing support and aiding with the development, implementation, and analysis of new technologies that improve the learning process. This includes computer hardware and software, developing e-Learning courses and projects, creating instruction videos, and sometimes setting up Learning Management Systems. Identifying the best technology for each learning application is key. In the internship, your duties also include identifying problems and deficiencies in programs being used and using that information to improve upon them.
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- Conducting a review of client's marketing channels across the University of Illinois System
- Draft news releases to promote client's campaigns and national programming efforts
- Draft original digital marketing content for print & digital formats, including social media
- Contribute to an existing social media post library
- Provide feedback and suggestions for social media content strategy
- Draft and distribute media releases to market client's services, campaigns, and contests
- Analyze success of marketing efforts through social media, email, and traditional methods
- Addressing diverse needs of multiple target populations
- Enhance verbal and digital communication skills
- Strategizing marketing efforts to accomplish organizational goals
- Highlighting key services through low cost marketing methods.
- Participate in project meetings
- Assist with project notes and documentation
- Maintain project timelines
- Help with project communications
- Client communications
- Team interaction
- Project management tools and techniques
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Assisting client in creating and maintaining their social media platforms
- Create, review, and carry out plans regarding their accounts
- Analyze shares, reads, and other related analytics
- Strategize how to best reach and grow audience
A successful Social Media Specialist will gain experience with:
- Presenting the image of a client to the world
- Assisting clients in how best to utilize social media to expand their department or company
- Gain familiarity with different social media platforms
- Understanding appropriate application of social media analytics
Requirements/Qualifications:
LAS Student with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Strong research skills and critical/analytical thinking ability. Must be independent and self-motivated but also have ability to work with various people on a variety of tasks.
- Assist in designing interfaces for projects so information is easy to read, easy to understand, and easy to find.
- Assist in creating rapid assets for responsive websites as well as web and mobile applications.
- Collaborate with other user experience specialist and web designers to refine designs as necessary
- Communicating technical concepts for non-technical audiences
- User experience and design processes
- Website accessibility concepts
- Documenting user requirements
- Proposing interface design changes
- Visual design process
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Learn an application and be able to create documentation for ATLAS clients
- Teach an intended audience how to leverage the system
- Answer user questions
A successful User Support & Documentation Specialist will gain knowledge and experience with:
- Writing technical documentation for non-technical audiences
- Reviewing and analyzing metrics captured by the knowledge base tool
- Techniques for publishing different content on websites
- Communication skills required for working with technical staff and their non-technical users
Requirements/Qualifications
LAS student with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Strong research skills and critical/analytical thinking ability. Must be independent and self‐motivated but also have the ability to work with various people on a variety of tasks.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Research different VR programs/apps, discuss logistics
- Develop and/or implement VR programs to provide specific functionality
- Input client content • Test and modify the programs to meet accessibility requirements
- Document the process and environment for future developers
A successful VR Intern will gain knowledge and experience with:
- Current application design trends
- Modern application development standards
- Application development tools for web and/or mobile platforms
- Accessibility requirements and implementation techniques
- Application testing
- Client communication skills
Requiremets/Qualifications:
LAS student with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Strong research skills and critical/analytical thinking ability. Must be independent and self‐motivated but also have the ability to work with various people on a variety of tasks. Previous experience with web or mobile application development is a plus.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Analyze websites of peers/competitors as requested by client
- Make inventory of content on existing websites
- Determine goals, importance, and audience of website content
- Propose organizational structure to meet desire goals
- Identify gaps and shortcomings in existing content
- Write/rewrite content for the new site
- Populate website with new content
- Develop a plan recommendation for client to maintain content
A successful Website Content Strategist will gain knowledge and experience with:
- Current website design trends
- Modern website development standards
- Web development tools and languages such as Adobe Dreamweaver, Drupal, WordPress, HTML, CSS, Javascript
- Website accessibility requirements and implementation techniques
- Client communication skills
Requirements/Qualifications:
LAS student with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Strong research skills and critical/analytical thinking ability. Must be independent and self-motivated but also have the ability to work with various people on a variety of tasks. Prior website is a plus.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Work collaboratively with the client to agree upon a finalized process
- Implement the process using a web based tool to create web forms for capturing information
- Use logical statements to trigger various events, send email, and move forms through the process stages
- Use built in reporting tools to provide clients with needed reports
A successful Workflow Specialist will gain knowledge and experience with:
- Business Process Improvement concepts
- Critical thinking skills
- Documentation and flow-charting methods
- Logical and conditional programming statements
- Client communication skills
Requirements/Qualifications:
LAS student with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Strong research skills and critical/analytical thinking ability. Must be independent and self‐motivated but also have the ability to work with various people on a variety of tasks.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Collaborate with the client to create or modify a modern design appealing to the client and their intended audience
- Create and modify a website template using tools specified by the client
- Develop and/or implement website widgets to provide specific functionality
- Input client content
- Test and modify the website to meet accessibility requirements
- Train client on tools required to maintain website content
- Document the process and environment for future developers
A successful Website Developer will gain knowledge and experience with:
- Current website design trends
- Modern website development standards
- Web development tools and languages such as Adobe Dreamweaver, Drupal, WordPress, HTML, CSS, Javascript
- Website accessibility requirements and implementation techniques
- Client communication skills
Requirements/Qualifications:
LAS student with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. The Website Developer will work with a client to develop and maintain the client's web presence. Must be independent and self‐motivated but also have the ability to work with various people on a variety of tasks. Prior experience with website development and related tools, e.g. HTML, Dreamweaver, WordPress, is a plus.