Student Assistant - Workforce & Community Partnerships

Position Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain the podcast production calendar, episode tracker, and recording schedule.
• Coordinate assignments, deadlines, and communication across the student podcast team.
• Identify and research potential guests, including students , alumni, employers, educators, and community leaders.
• Contact guests, coordinate availability, confirm recording details, and send preparation materials.
• Research workforce-development topics, industries, career pathways, and community initiatives.
• Collaborate with the host and student co-hosts to develop episode themes, outlines, and interview questions.
• Prepare guest briefs containing background information, proposed questions, and key discussion topics.
• Support recording sessions and ensure the studio, equipment, and episode materials are prepared.
• Assist with basic audio/video production, file organization, editing coordination, and quality review.
• Track episodes through preproduction, recording, postproduction, approval, and publication.
• Help create episode titles, descriptions, show notes, promotional copy, and short-form content.
• Participate in regular editorial and production meetings and follow college policies related to branding, accessibility, privacy, and content approval.

Preferred Qualifications

• Current SUNY Broome student in good academic standing.
• Strong organizational, communication, and time-management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and meet deadlines.
• Interest in podcasting, communications, journalism, marketing, media production, workforce development, or community engagement.
• Comfort communicating professionally with students , faculty, employers, and community leaders.
• Willingness to learn audio, video, editing, and studio-production tools.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Previous experience with media production, student organizations, event planning, writing, interviewing, or project coordination is helpful but not required.

What You’ll Gain