The Thresher is looking to hire a new Advertising Manager! Apply to the role through Handshake here. Below is a description of the role and requirements:
The advertising manager is responsible for ensuring that the Thresher is financially self-sufficient by maintaining relationships with local advertisers and national advertising agencies. The advertising manager oversees the advertising insertion orders, ads production and ads layout. The advertising manager consults with the business director to determine the advertising rates and consults with the editor advertising manager in chief to determine layout policies and general advertising policies. The advertising manager is also responsible for ensuring that ad layout and ad production deadlines are met. All members of the advertising staff are generally expected to work together in developing ideas for advertising campaigns that will ensure the fiscal security of The Rice Thresher.
The advertising manager should have completed one year at Rice and should have completed one semester on a business staff. The advertising manager should demonstrate sound business judgment, high ethical standards and the ability to supervise and participate in advertising sales and layouts for newspaper. The advertising manager will be responsible for managing national advertising accounts, for recruitment of and effective management of and leadership for business assistants and sales representatives and will assist the business director and advertising representatives in the billing process.
Specifically, the advertising manager:
- Meets established deadlines.
- Maintains office hours daily.
- Conducts weekly advertising meetings.
- Supervises the activities of all advertising staffers, including recruitment and training.
- Helps to collect all advertising revenue owed to The Rice Thresher and turns it over to the business director for deposit.
- Schedules, coordinates and provides customer service with all national advertising agencies and accounts for both newspaper and online.
- Prepares “dummy” (placement) of the ads and determines the size of a given edition (in consultation with the managing editor or editor in chief).
- Prepares a written report, called a “manifest,” one week in advance of each edition, listing all ads sold and the size of each ad.
- Distributes copies of this manifest, together with the page “dummy,” to the managing editor, the editor in chief, the business director and the director of student media.
- Coordinates any special news requirements for special sections directly with the managing editor.
- Maintains consistency in the advertising/news ratio for each edition. (The volume of ads sold for each edition determines the size of the edition. The newspaper’s target split is 40 percent advertising, 60 percent news.)
- Assists in choosing contest entries for local, state and national contests.
- Performs other duties as warranted.
Again, applications will be via Handshake: https://rice.joinhandshake.com/jobs/5213453
Please reach out to ricestudentmedia@gmail.com with any questions!