Advertising administration and sales
Location
Colorado | United States
Job description
Sanpete News Company, publishing the Sanpete Messenger and Gunnison Valley Gazette newspapers, is seeking an enthusiastic, organized advertising administrator and sales person.
Duties include:
- Management of print display advertisements, public and legal notices, and society notices for publication in our two weekly newspapers. You will be responsible for placing the ads in an In-Design template and filing out insertion orders required for billing.
- Visiting or telephoning companies that aren’t currently advertising, including new companies, to suggest ways the newspaper can help them grow.
- Selling ads for “special projects,” ranging from high-school sports booster magazines, to our annual voter guide, to our Celebrating the Season Christmas magazine. We do six special projects per year.
- Drafting and finalizing year-long advertising contracts in amounts ranging from $2,500 to $12,000 with about 20 businesses in Sanpete County. This includes tracking contract expiration dates, coming up with ideas for the next-year contracts, writing the renewal contracts and getting them signed on time.
Perfect for recent college graduate, mom transitioning back into the work force, career-changer, or Sanpete County native who has moved away and wants to come back. Will give some consideration to student who wants to start as a summer intern.
College education, associate degree or higher, highly desired. Experience in the ad department of college paper a big plus. Must be computer literate in Word and Excel; experience with Adobe In-Design beneficial but not required. Writing and design skills extremely helpful.
A fantastic opportunity to develop highly marketable administrative and sales skills and experience in nonthreatening small-business setting. Start in the $30K range, plus commission. This is a place where you can propose and implement your own ideas.
The two newspapers, especially the
Sanpete Messenger , are truly exceptional. Our No. 1 priority is community service. In the past 23 years under the current publisher, the
Messenger has won the "general excellence award" for small newspapers in Utah 16 times (including numerous awards for advertising creativity and design), won at least eight national awards and won several Society of Professional Journalists' awards.
During 2024, we anticipate transitioning to a nonprofit organization, headed by a community board, and bolstering our revenues substantially with grant funding.
The Sanpete Messenger is located in Manti, Utah, county seat of Sanpete County, a county of 30,000 located 80 miles south of Provo, Utah and 120 miles south of Salt Lake City. We are within 200 miles of five national parks.
Send a cover letter and resume to
[email protected] or call 435-835-4241 for further details.
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