About Fordham:

Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering an exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 16,000 students in its nine colleges and schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in West Harrison, N.Y., the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre in the United Kingdom.

The University offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts; retirement plans; life insurance; short and long-term disability; employee assistance program ( EAP ); tuition remission; and generous time off.

Successful candidates should have a knowledge of and commitment to the goals of Jesuit Education.

Department: Marketing and Communications

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Senior Creative Director, the Assistant Creative Director role will lead the charge in transforming and innovating Fordham’s digital landscape. This involves dynamic collaboration with the channel engagement team, a cadre of experts in social media, email marketing, web development, and video.

The role will spearhead the establishment, execution, and upkeep of a digital roadmap that not only modernizes Fordham’s online presence but also integrates best-in-class UX/UI. Developing innovative scalable digital solutions will be the catalyst for increasing audience engagement, ensuring a consistent and visually appealing user experience for Fordham’s diverse audience base.

Essential Functions:

Serves as a lead visual storyteller for Fordham University, collaborating closely with Fordham’s Senior Creative Director to evolve and maintain the creative vision for the Fordham brand.

Creative visionary accountable for modernizing Fordham’s visual storytelling across digital, video and social content in collaboration with UMC storytellers, utilizing data-driven insights to sharpen engagement.

Develops scalable design systems and templating frameworks to deliver repetitive projects more efficiently.

Leads the strategic vision, evolution and innovation of Fordham’s digital presence, collaborating with the channel engagement team (social, email and web) to establish and deliver upon a digital roadmap that modernizes Fordham’s digital presence, incorporating cutting edge UX/UI consistently through scalable digital solutions that maximize engagement with Fordham’s audiences.

Directs creative brainstorms and brief development, fostering a collaborative and innovative creative culture.

Manages creative freelancers, including training on Fordham brand standards and ensuring project delivery is on scope, on time, and on brand.

Serves as a lead creative and designer on complex projects that require an elevated skillset and creative eye.

Management Responsibilities

Supervises the work of other Fordham employees who are individual contributors, including planning, assigning, scheduling, and reviewing work. Is responsible for hiring, training and developing, managing performance and administering corrective action and has significant input in compensation decisions. Plans organizational structure and job content and is responsible for managing operational aspects of the team, including compliance, budget, and deliverables.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, visual arts, marketing or communications.

Minimum of 5 years design experience, including a minimum of 3 years experience in UX/UI design.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s degree in graphic design, visual arts, marketing or communications.

Minimum Salary: $85,000

Maximum Salary: $105,000