JOBS AT OMA
Located in a burgeoning coastal city along the cultural corridor between Los Angeles and San Diego, Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) explores new, relevant, and historical art of Southern California. Like art itself, OMA is always fresh, sometimes edgy, sometimes traditional, and frequently unexpected. The OMA experience stimulates imagination, presents new ideas, and challenges the familiar in a welcoming environment for those new to art, longtime museum-goers, artists, art students, or simply the curious.
Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) is an equal opportunity employer and considers all candidates for employment regardless of race, color, sex, age, national origin, creed, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or political affiliation.
OPEN POSITIONS
To apply for open positions, email your resume and cover letter to jobs@oma-online.org.
Oceanside Museum of Art – Oceanside, CA
ABOUT OMA
Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) is a non-profit organization that began providing exhibitions and public programs in 1995 as part of their mission to bring people together to explore the art and stories of Southern California artists. OMA’s exhibition program is dynamic and robust, surprising visitors with fresh and exciting visual experiences nearly every visit. In addition to these boundary-pushing contemporary art exhibitions, OMA’s programming includes youth education programs, adult art classes, music, films, and creative community parties and events that appeal to locals and tourists alike. The OMA experience stimulates imagination, presents new ideas, and challenges the familiar in a welcoming environment for those new to art, longtime museum-goers, artists, art students, or simply the curious.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) is seeking a creative and effective Communications Specialist to be responsible for planning, developing, and implementing the museum’s marketing strategy as it relates to social media, email, and public relations.
Job Type: Temporary, four-month assignment running May through September 2024. Flexible work week; not to exceed 30 hours per week
Compensation: $20-25/hr, based on experience
Note: Please disregard previous postings for this position that did not indicate this time frame.
Applications will be accepted through May 1, 2024.
TYPICAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Determine news-worthy stories, website, and social media content, and which distribution strategies to implement to highlight the museum's exhibitions, events, and workshops in collaboration with the Marketing Manager.
● Plan, design, and coordinate written and digital content with different departments for distribution to be displayed via marketing channels.
● Adhere to the company’s style guide, ensuring that we produce high-quality, error-free copy.
● Execute the museum’s social media strategy using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok etc.
● Produce and execute email campaigns, including building emails from templates, copywriting, asset coordination, QA, and scheduling.
● Build effective target audiences and segments for every message to drive engagement and revenue performance against KPI goals.
● Provide regular campaign performance reports that include opens, clicks, conversions, revenue, revenue lift, unsubscribes, etc. to Marketing Manager.
● Ability to pull and assess analytics across multiple platforms.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
● Minimum Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
● Excellent written communication and copywriting skills.
● Strategic, self-starter with the ability to initiate creative projects.
● Excellent organizational skills; knowledge of task management tools such as ClickUp; ability to work under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
● Demonstrated success in planning and conducting marketing and branded communications campaigns
● Knowledge and understanding of email platforms and automation.
● Knowledge and understanding of social media platforms and social media analytical tools such as Later, Facebook Business Manager.
● Savvy understanding of analytics-based social media, email, marketing, and website.
● Ability to manage and make short compelling videos (shoot to edit) for social media and website.
● Knowledge of design tools such as Photoshop, InDesign, and Canva.
● Understand fundamentals in database management.
● High level of creativity and entrepreneurship.
● Understanding and experience working in collaboration with partners and peers to plan, coordinate, and implement from simple to complex events.
● Ability to coordinate and collaborate on event and event management.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
● Knowledge and interest in the arts
• Able to work extended hours as needed to achieve business objectives with leadership advance approval.
• Possess energy, drive, and vision.
• Experience within the cultural sector, specifically modern and contemporary communications trends.
• Has a vested interest and history of success using alternative and online approaches to marketing—web-based promotions, social media, relational communication, and developing innovative partnerships to implement collaborative efforts.
• Keeping up with the arts in general and regional arts specifically, is highly desirable.
Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) is an equal opportunity employer and considers all candidates
for employment regardless of race, color, sex, age, national origin, creed, disability, marital
status, sexual orientation or political affiliation.
Mission Statement
Bringing people together to explore the art and stories of Southern California.
Vision Statement
A community transformed by art.
Values
Spirited, Innovative, Original, Engaging, Inclusive
Cultural Equity Statement
To support a full creative life for all, Oceanside Museum of Art commits to championing policies
and practices of cultural equity that empower a just, inclusive, equitable community.