
Student Brand Management Assistant
Salary level: $13/hour
Approximate hours: 10–15 per week
Semester available: Starting Summer or Fall 2025
Job function: Student Brand Management Assistant
How to apply:
Please email your resume, cover letter, and a link to any applicable design, marketing, or writing project work samples.
Description:
Join the University of Iowa Brand Management team and gain experience learning how to grow and build a nationally ranked Big Ten university brand! The Office of Strategic Communication seeks a motivated, marketing-minded student who can take initiative and assist our creative team with day-to-day brand management work. Our ideal candidate is self-motivated, resourceful, enjoys working and engaging with other creatives, and can identify opportunities to jump in to offer support.
Responsibilities include:
- Help maintain our portfolio of centrally supported brand resources.
- Draft Brand Manual website (brand.uiowa.edu) edits and updates.
- Provide design support for artwork, templates, and graphic assets.
- Assist with brand metric reporting efforts.
- Organize and maintain our growing supply of Iowa swag.
- Help monitor and coordinate brand display rentals for campus units.
- Support our campus brand training and outreach efforts.
- Assist with keeping merchandise storefront lockups up to date.
- Work collaboratively with our team of designers, writers, photographers, and videographers to provide student perspective on university marketing and communication projects.
Desired majors: Marketing
Desired year of study: First-year/sophomore
Qualifications:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Well-developed time management skills
- Ability to handle multiple projects at once
- Receptive to direction and feedback
- Deadline driven
- Experience with or willingness to learn Adobe Creative Suite applications, UI Drupal content management system and SiteNow platform, GroupMe, Zoom, Asana, and Microsoft Office/Teams/CoPilot.
- Currently enrolled University of Iowa student in good academic standing