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Cool Job Alert: Roving Art Cart is Hiring!

Photo Credit: Citiparks

Photo Credit: Citiparks

Looking for a summer job or looking to pick up some extra work this summer? The City of Pittsburgh’s parks department, aka Citiparks, is hiring an assistant for the Roving Art Cart.

The Roving Art Cart, now in its 43rd summer here in Pittsburgh (I would love to know more about how this program started) travels around to parks and community centers to offer arts programming to kids all summer long.

To apply visit www.PghJobs.net (this is not the most user-friendly website, so I’ve copied and pasted the job description below).

POSITION DESCRIPTION – RECREATION ASSISTANT, TEMP (ROVING ART CART)

Position Duties:

  • Enjoy working with children in an outdoor “Arts in the Park” setting on a daily basis.
  • Work with multi media art projects and participate in creating lesson plans.
  • Prepare daily Roving Art Cart materials and maintain art supply inventory.
  • Understand the Roving Art Cart summer schedule and projects.
  • Ability to communicate Roving Art Cart information effectively to parents and community groups throughout the City of Pittsburgh.
  • Understand daily group attendance at Roving Art Cart sites and collect field data.
  • Responsible for the movement and daily set up and break down of tents, tables and art supplies.

Ability to:

  • Interact with the public in a courteous and polite manner.
  • Establish and maintain effective working relationships with supervisors and co-workers.
  • Arrive to work on time for each assigned shift.
  • Lift at least 50 pounds.
  • Work a flexible schedule which may include evenings, weekends and holidays.

Roving Art Cart Summer 2016 Schedule

10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
June 14 Highland Park – Super Playground
June 15 McGunnegle Playground – Sheraden
June 16 Beechview Spray Park – Beechview
June 17 Frick Park – Forbes/Braddock Playground
June 21 Phillips Recreation Center – Carrick
June 22 Ormsby Recreation Center – South Side
June 23 Allegheny Commons Park (West Commons) near National Aviary – North Side
June 24 Schenley Park – Schenley Oval
June 28 Troy Hill Spray Park – Troy Hill
June 29 West End/Elliott Overlook – Elliott
June 30 Ammon Recreation Center – Hill District
July 1 Riverview Park – Observatory Entrance
July 5 Magee Recreation Center – Greenfield
July 6 Burgwin Playground – Hazelwood
July 7 Jefferson Recreation Center – North Side
July 8 Grandview Park Overlook – Mt. Washington
July 12 Arlington Recreation Center – Arlington
July 13 Warrington Recreation Center – Beltzhoover
July 14 Moore Park – Brookline
July 15 Highland Park – Farmhouse Playground
July 19 Brookline Recreation Center – Brookline
July 20 Mellon Park – Dan Cohen Playground – Shadyside
July 21 Paulson Recreation Center – Lincoln-Lemington
July 22 Schenley Park – Anderson Playground
July 26 Marmaduke Playground – Brighton Heights
July 27 Swisshelm Playground – Swisshelm Park
July 28 Olympia Park Playground – Duquesne Heights
July 29 Frick Park – Blue Slide Playground
Aug 2 Davis Park – Hobart Street – Squirrel Hill
Aug 3 Banksville Park – Banksville
Aug 4 Westinghouse Park – Homewood
Aug 5 Riverview Park – Observatory Entrance

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Now Hiring: The Steelers are looking for an Email Marketing Specialist

steelers jobThis showed up in my inbox from LinkedIn. Do you have what it takes to join the (office) team? If you love the Steelers and love email marketing, then this is the job for you. According to LinkedIn, the job was posted 19 days ago and as of today only 20 people have applied.

I could only find this job posted on LinkedIn here, if you are looking for other openings with the Steelers organization, check out the listings here.

Job description – Email Marketing Specialist, Pittsburgh Steelers

The email Marketing Specialist will join our email marketing team to improve the relevance, segmentation and targeting of our email program. This individual will have a blend of quantitative/analytical skills to work with email list data, the creativity and writing skills to improve the content and relevance of email content and the experience running internet marketing campaigns, measuring results and pulling out insights to improve future campaign performance.

Responsibilities:

– email setup from start to finish—from business input, creative, timing, HTML set up all the way to proofing and execution.

– Leverage the marketing database to create data driven email marketing campaigns with relevant, customer-focused messaging to increase fan engagement.

–  Develop and maintain the email marketing calendar detailing the timing and frequency of all internal and external email communications.

–  Participate in the email marketing creative brief process, gathering creative components and business input, including copywriting and proofreading, to create a consistent brand voice.

–  Monitor, cleanse and append email lists, balancing the goals of growth and quality.

–  Recommend email marketing strategy enhancements to optimize future campaigns and contribute to marketing goals.

– Proactively measure and analyze the effectiveness of email campaigns extracting insights that can be used to improve future campaign performance.

– Conduct on-going competitive market and industry analysis to keep up to date with new email tactics and techniques that can be incorporated into the Steelers email campaigns.

Skills and Experience:

– Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Communications or Bachelor of Science in Quantitative field.

– 3+ years marketing experience.

– Minimum of 1 year email marketing experience, including creating/executing email campaigns.

– Working knowledge of HTML.

– Solid understanding of email industry best practices, especially CAN-SPAM compliance and a working     knowledge of the legal rules.

–  Previous experience with enterprise level email platforms such as Epsilon, Bronto or ExactTarget.

–  Quantitative analysis skills and comfort working with large data sets.

–  Photoshop and/or other photo editing program experience.

–  Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.

–  Strong attention to detail, organizational and management skills.

–  Ability to multi-task and work in a collaborative and fast-paced environment with limited supervision.

–  Quick learner and keen sense of curiosity.

–  Ability to work a flexible schedule including weekends.