Design Student Assistant: Create Impactful School Content

The New School

New York, Northern (NY, KY)

Hybrid

USD 23,000 - 26,000

Part time

14 days+

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Job summary

The New School's InsideSchools project seeks a Design Assistant to support the education team by creating engaging digital and print content, updating web resources, and contributing to outreach and community engagement initiatives.

You will handle graphic design, photography, content creation, and data visualization while assisting with research, events, and school profiles to ensure accessible, high-quality information for NYC families.

Qualifications

Current full-time New School student with a Federal Work Study (FWS) award for the 2026-27 academic year.
An understanding of or interest in learning more about the most pressing issues in urban education, particularly the relationship between families and schools.
Design capabilities to create graphics for flyers, social media, and website.
Experience using content management systems (CMS) (i.e. Contentful, Wordpress), productivity software (i.e. Trello, Google Workplace, Google Analytics), design software (Canva, Illustrator, Photoshop), and social media (Twitter, Facebook) a plus.
Strong writing and communication skills.
Capacity to work independently and as part of a team.
Spanish, French and Chinese language skills are a plus (not required).

Responsibilities

Providing descriptions of over 1,800 NYC early childhood centers, elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools.
Elevating the voices of middle and high school students through youth-centered services.
Engaging and empowering parents.
Collecting input from school communities to inform content and programming.
Developing comprehensive resources to support public school families throughout the K-12 experience.
Developing and supporting partnerships and training programs with schools and community-based organizations.
Take photos of individual schools, edit images, draft captions for images, manage necessary release forms, and draft narrative content for school profiles.
Update and maintain the InsideSchools website and customized search tools, provide design suggestions for engagement.
Produce and edit content for promotion, communication, and marketing of InsideSchools through email copy, social media content, graphics, and flyers.
Support the design, collection, and analysis of data, including surveys, analytics, interviews and focus groups, etc.
Answer questions from public school families, including working with the team to monitor comments and inquiries.
Assist in planning and implementing events and focus groups.
Attend education team meetings.