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Student Media Job Opportunities

Sales Management (Print Sales Manager, Broadcast Sales Manager)

Hire your own sales staff
Manage team to achieve sales goals
Supervise and monitor personal, individual and team sales efforts
Coordinate efforts with the design and production teams
Work with the professional adviser to set revenue goals for each product every semester
Monitor collection of outstanding advertisement payments due
Train the sales staff and hold regular team meetings
Develop and maintain a client account list
Train sales staff to understand and execute department policies on billing, credit status, and collections
Oversee all client contracts
Maintain appropriate office hours and manage personal sales efforts
Handle payroll for your staff
Handle complaint phone calls
Additional Print manager duties include:
Hiring and managing the print production and layout staff
Handling or monitoring the classifieds operation
Sending press and print orders to the printing vendors
Sending run sheets to business manager and advertising manager
Ensuring tear-sheets are sent out in a timely manner
Additional Broadcast manager duties include:
Making sure the sponsor identification announcements are produced within FCC guidelines for non-commercial stations by the production staff.
Turning in broadcast orders with instructions to the traffic manager for scheduling
Turning in all insertion orders to business manager and advertising director
Supervising production of KLSU and Tiger TV spots.
Monitoring KLSU traffic logs.

Print Sales Rep (The Reveille, Reveille Special Sections, Reveille online, Legacy magazine, Gumbo yearbook)

Solicits businesses, individuals and organizations to advertise in or underwrite any of Student Media's entities
Must use own vehicle when transportation is necessary
Keeps all clients informed of all special packages and promotions
Attends all comprehensive training sessions for student staff and all weekly staff meetings.
Keeps a daily sales call report and turns it in to Sales Manager.
Must make a minimum of 3 face to face client or prospect calls a week
Keeps approximately 20 office hours per week, including making necessary sales calls.
Works with design staff to help develop speculative ads and campaigns for presentation to prosspective customers.
Checks daily paper proofs
Turns in daily run sheets
Moves necessary client artwork into daily paper folders
Processes all contracts and insertion orders according to sales staff procedures.
Sends out weekly invoices with tearsheets to customers and also mails out monthly statements.
Responsible for meeting bi-weekly and overall individual sales goals

Broadcast Sales Rep (KLSU, TTV, on-line)

Solicits businesses, individuals and organizations to advertise or underwrite in any of Student Media's entities
Must use own vehicle when transportation is necessary
Keeps all clients informed of all special packages and promotions
Attends all comprehensive training sessions for student staff and all weekly staff meetings.
Keeps a daily sales call report and turns it in to Sales Manager.
Must make a minimum of 3 face to face client or prospect calls a week
Keeps approximately 20 office hours per week, including making necessary sales calls.
Works with production staff to ensure implementation of sold spots to air
Responsible for handling scripts to be sent for FCC approval and production
Once spot is produced, responsible for sending it to the client for final approval for airing
Checks weekly missed spots log and handles make-goods for clients
Processes all contracts and insertion orders according to sales staff procedures.
Handles getting all TV spots on DV tape, DVD or VHS for clients according to insertion order
Mails out monthly statements.
Responsible for meeting bi-weekly and overall individual sales goals

Organizational Sales Rep (to on-campus organizations and clubs for the yearbook)

Solicits campus organizations to purchase organizational pages in the Gumbo yearbook
Solicits campus organizations to purchase additional space in The Daily Reveille and Reveille Special Sections
Disseminates package information to organizational leaders through the use of personal presentations, meetings, e-mailed packages, flyers, and advertising group informational sessions
Keeps a weekly call log and turns it in to the Sales Manager.
Keeps approximately 15 - 20 office hours per week, including sales calls

Office Assistant

Marketing Manager & Staff

Responsible for directing, managing, and overseeing the marketing staff in the planning, organizing and executing of all internal and external Student Media events, promotions and marketing campaigns
Responsible for the day-to-day production and execution of marketing ads to run in the paper
Oversees the planning, organization, and execution of all events that include paying vendors (ex: Living Expo, etc.)
Create complete proposals for each planned event and promotion, to include timelines, proposed budgets, and plans for multi-media execution of event campaign
Make sure contracts are properly prepared and reviewed by Advertising Director
Create an additional event other than the Living Expo, to be executed in the Fall semester, and to ensure said event generates revenue.
Work with station managers and editors to collaborate on the development of any marketing campaign they wish to execute

Layout

Proficient with current computer design and layout software.
Lays out the newspaper on a daily basis
Needs problem-solving abilities to fit ads inside the designated space allowed for that particular day
Works closely with management to ensure all ads are checked and the paper is handed over to editorial by deadline

Design

Proficient with current computer design and layout software.
Creates ads for individual clients, as requested on production orders, within deadlines established on production order.

Distribution & Circulation

Show up at the dock by 6 a.m. daily
Make sure all of the papers are distributed every morning, and call the manager if there are extra at the dock.