Multimedia Designer

Mohawk Valley Community College; City of Utica (NY); On-site; USD 40,000 - 54,200; Full time

Job summary

Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, NY is seeking a Multimedia Designer to join the Marketing and Communications team. You will assist with the College's digital footprint, collaborating with a graphic designer, web developer, content creators, writers, and videographers to create print and multimedia graphics and motion graphics for web, email, social media, and digital signage.

The ideal candidate blends professional graphic design skills with design thinking to deliver brand-consistent

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, visual arts, or related field; two years of related experience preferred.
• Experience with Adobe software to conceptualize, design and produce print and digital deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Translates content into visuals for digital and print presentations.
• Creates motion graphics for website, social media, emails, advertising, digital signage, and mobile apps.
• Contributes to visual messaging that supports recruitment, retention, brand awareness, reputation, and MVCC’s strategic priorities.
• Conceptualizes, shoots, edits, designs and develops multimedia content.
• Works with designers, content developers, web developers, photographers and videographers to align with MVCC branding.

Skills

Graphic design

Design thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in graphic design or related field

Tools

Adobe Creative Cloud

Job description

Multimedia Designer

Location: Utica, NY
Job Type: Full-Time, 12-Month
Work Arrangement: This is a fully on-campus position.

Mohawk Valley Community College provides accessible, high-quality educational opportunities to meet the diverse needs of our students. We are the community’s college, committed to student success through partnerships, transfer and career pathways, and personal enrichment.

The College is looking for exceptional colleagues to join the MVCC community. We are currently seeking a Multimedia Designer in our Marketing and Communications department. The Multimedia Designer assists with the development of the College's digital footprint and by working with a graphic designer, web developer, content developers, as well as writers, and videographers, on the creation of print and multimedia graphics, and their integration into motion graphics for use in various digital media (including Web, mobile apps, online ads, HTML emails, social media, digital signage, presentations, and more). They utilize design thinking and professional graphic design skills to create print and digital advertising published by the MVCC Marketing and Communications Office. They exercise creative expertise and affiliations with other designers, photographers, content creators, and clients to provide effective design solutions. The Multimedia Designer ensure that advertisements follow the same brand standards as print, digital, and other design work of the office.

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Translates content into visuals for digital and print presentations.
• Creates motion graphics in a multitude of formats for use on the website, social media, texts, HTML emails, advertising, digital signage, and mobile apps.
• Contributes to visual messaging that supports recruitment, retention, brand awareness, reputation, and strategic priorities of the College.
• Conceptualizes, shoots, edits, designs and develops multimedia content.
• Works with design colleagues, content developers, web developers, and photographer and videographer to develop visuals in concert with MVCC’s existing branding guidelines.
• Generates creative design thinking and solutions to achieve communications goals through advertisements designed for print, digital, and other media.
• Applies professional graphic design skills, and designs that compel advertisement materials and promotional items that represent MVCC’s brand.
• Consults with other office staff to ensure that advertising designs are consistently co- branded with other Web, print, and media.
• Manages multimedia projects from conception to completion, ensuring that the project meets the requirements of stakeholders and are delivered on time and within budget.
• Creates and maintains a data base of vendors, job specifications, project progress, production coordination, photography selection, and to assess advertising effectiveness.
• Works with vendors to determine the technical specifications and schedules of advertisements, with clients and colleagues to determine advertising priorities and timelines, and researches products and resolve technical problems.
• Stays up-to-date with the latest multimedia trends, tools, and techniques, and shares knowledge with colleagues.
• Ensures that advertisements meet the same design and quality control standards as print publications, digital and other media.
• Represents the Office of Marketing and Communications in a professional, dependable manner and courteously interacts with constituents across the College and the broader community.
• Other duties as related to this job description and as assigned by the Executive Director of Marketing and Communications.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 4:30pm

Hours per week: 35

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, visual arts, or related field and minimum of two (2) years of progressive experience in a related professional field
• Effective organizational, interpersonal, and customer service skills; ability to prioritize, coordinate, and schedule work assignments in a collaborative, deadline-driven environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with higher education advertising and demonstrated success in the use of Adobe software to achieve the conceptualization, design, and production of print and digital deliverables

Additional Information:

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. VISA sponsorship is not available for this position.
• Offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check.

We encourage applicants who meet the minimum qualifications and have transferable skills to apply. If you have related experience that may not align perfectly with the job description, we’d still like to hear from you.

To learn more about MVCC, our culture, and employee benefits, please visit: https://www.mvcc.edu/about/discover

Special Instructions to Applicants: Official academic transcripts required upon hire.

Salary: $47,138

For full consideration, apply by: 8/10/2026

Mohawk Valley Community College is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer deeply committed to a community of excellence, equity, and diversity. MVCC maintains an inclusive learning environment in which students, faculty, administrators, staff, curriculum, social activities, governance, and all other aspects of campus life reflect a diverse, multi-cultural, and global worldview. We value the many similarities and differences among individuals and groups. We are committed to preparing students to understand, live among, appreciate, and work in a world made up of people with different ethnic and racial backgrounds, military backgrounds, religious beliefs, socio-economic status, cultural traditions, different abilities, sexual orientations and gender identities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability.